The Economist Asia - 20.01.2018

The EconomistJanuary 20th 2018 Middle East and Africa 41 2 Turkey fears the fighting could drive many Syrians across its border ...

42 Middle East and Africa The EconomistJanuary 20th 2018 S OUTH AFRICANS have dubbed this month “Janu-worry”. After Christmas an ...

The EconomistJanuary 20th 2018 43 For daily analysis and debate on Europe, visit Economist.com/europe 1 W HEN Emmanuel Macron wa ...

44 Europe The EconomistJanuary 20th 2018 2 just as it did at the national level. Neither of these roles, though, quite meets the ...

The EconomistJanuary 20th 2018 Europe 45 1 Poland Patriotic smog T HE spa town of Rabka-Zdroj, in south- ern Poland, has been kn ...

46 Europe The EconomistJanuary 20th 2018 2 soft-spoken political novice who previous- ly led the Czech Academy of Sciences, won ...

The EconomistJanuary 20th 2018 Europe 47 A H, THE European Union. The finest dispute-resolution mecha- nism mankind has concocte ...

48 The EconomistJanuary 20th 2018 For daily analysis and debate on Britain, visit Economist.com/britain 1 L ABOURERS building th ...

The EconomistJanuary 20th 2018 Britain 49 2 to protect executives’ bonuses if the com- pany failed. On January 17th the Insolven ...

50 Britain The EconomistJanuary 20th 2018 T HE opening of the new American embassy should have been the highlight of London’s di ...

The EconomistJanuary 20th 2018 51 1 A S A child soldier in Sierra Leone in the 1990s, Eric Wolo smoked a brown powder that made ...

52 International The EconomistJanuary 20th 2018 2 war the following year, many rearmed. Modern DDR programmes were de- signed in ...

The EconomistJanuary 20th 2018 53 For daily coverage of business, visit Economist.com/business-finance 1 C ONNECTED devices now ...

54 Business The EconomistJanuary 20th 2018 1 2 model. In November, Google announced an addition to TensorFlow, itsAI technol- og ...

The EconomistJanuary 20th 2018 Business 55 1 2 tages of their own. They can rely on a huge home market in which foreign rivals a ...

56 Business The EconomistJanuary 20th 2018 2 the league’s coffers somewhat). In France, Ligue 1 bosses had hoped for a significa ...

The EconomistJanuary 20th 2018 Business 57 F ANNING out from the sodden delta of the Yangtze, and southward to the flanks of the ...

58 Business The EconomistJanuary 20th 2018 I MAGINE a world in which you are manipulated by intelligent advertisements from dusk ...

The EconomistJanuary 20th 2018 59 For daily analysis and debate on economics, visit Economist.com/economics 1 P ERHAPS the most ...

60 Finance and economics The EconomistJanuary 20th 2018 1 2 expense of oil consumers in the West. Over time, however, the rich w ...