The Economist - UK (2022-05-28)

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Contents

Contents continues overleaf

On the cover

The world this week

7 A summary of political

and business news

Leaders

9 China’s economy

Ideology versus prosperity

10 Guns in America

Maybe, make it a bit

harder to buy one?

10 Ukraine

Don’t stop now

12 Eritrea

Containing the North

Korea of Africa

14 Financial markets

Prophets and profits

Letters

16 On money-laundering,

medieval history, Utah,

shrinkflation, food oil,

digital twins, football

Briefing

18 China’s economy

Fortified but not enriched

Special report:

China in Africa

A partnership

of unequals

After page 42

Britain

21 The Sue Gray report

22 Windfall taxes

23 The Online Safety Bill

24 Gene-edited food

25 John Lewis rebounds

25 A new history curriculum

26 The Platinum Jubilee

27 BagehotA government in

opposition

Europe

28 How the war in Ukraine

might end

29 Refugees start to return

30 Europe’s recovery funds

31 Spain’s troublesome

ex-king

32 Charlemagne

A multi-tiered Europe?

United States

33 Another senseless

slaughter

34 Georgia’s primaries

35 Lessons from Bentonville

36 Trade-union branding

36 The mess at the border

37 Russians wanted, sort of

38 LexingtonSouthern

Baptist scandal

The Americas

39 Colombia’s divisive

election

42 Bello Mining in the Andes

Middle East & Africa

43 Inside the gulag state

44 E-commerce in Africa

45 A new emir in the Gulf

46 Arab genomes and

marriage

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BartlebyShowing

appreciation is an art, not

a science, page 61

How Xi Jinping is damaging
China’s economy: leader,
page 9.China is trying to
protect its economy from
Western pressure: briefing,
page 18.Foreign investors are
fleeing Chinese markets,
page 64.Rumours emerge of
disharmony within China’s
leadership,page 52.To counter
China’s growing role in Africa
the West must first understand
it, say Gady Epstein and John
McDermott in our special
report,after page 42

Sue Gray's blurry reportIt gives
a strikingly patchy account of the
Downing Street parties, page 21

Don’t go wobbly on Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelensky needs
continued support, not timorous
advice: leader, page 10. Western
allies are starting to split over the
endgame, page 28

Tragedy in TexasMake it harder
to buy guns: leader, page 10.
A spate of shootings shows
American exceptionalism at its
worst, page 33

How to read America’s
stockmarkets Why investors are
increasingly worried about
recession in America: leader,
page 14

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