2019-11-09_The_Economist_-_Asia_Edition

The EconomistNovember 9th 2019 3

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Contents

The world this week

5 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

9 The future of Europe

A continent in peril

10 Cameroon’s forgotten

war

Words and weapons

10 Squeezing the rich

In defence of billionaires

11 Fakenudes

Sex,liesandpolitics

12 Genetics

A designforlife

Letters

14 OntheBible,Greece,

Congress,Chile,Syria,

Canada,windenergy,

AtlanticCity

Briefing

17 Macron’sviewofthe

world

A presidentona mission

Asia

21 An Asian trade deal

22 Pakistan’s opposition

23 Cycle rickshaws in

Bangladesh

23 Thailand’s bulky monks

24 The Fukushima accident

24 Taiwan and China

25 BanyanPacificpolitics

China

26 Hong Kong’s hostility to

mainland Chinese

27 Debating face-scans

28 ChaguanThe market and

mother tongues

United States

29 Warrencare

30 Off-year elections

31 Quid pro...so what?

31 Political advertising

32 Milwaukee’s north side

33 Odessa on the Intracoastal

34 LexingtonThe veterans

ofAmerica’slongwars

The Americas

35 The protests in Bolivia

36 Jamaica’s successful IMF

programme

Middle East & Africa

38 The crisis in Cameroon

40 Iran and the bomb

40 Jerusalem’s new

necropolis

41 Saudi Arabia’s reforms

LexingtonThe wars in

Iraq and Afghanistan

have cost most Americans

nothing. That is why they

continue, page 34

On the cover

Europe is “on the edge of a
precipice”, says France’s
president. Is he right? Leader,
page 9. In a blunt interview,
Emmanuel Macron spoke to
The Economistabout Europe’s
fragile place in a hostile world:
briefing, page 17. A government
led by Jeremy Corbyn would
present a radical challenge to
Britain’s global alliances:
Bagehot,page 48

• In defence of billionaires
  Large personal fortunes are an
  unreliable guide to where
  government policy has gone
  wrong: leader,page 10. Have
  billionaires accumulated their
  wealth illegitimately? Page 60


• Cameroon’s forgotten war
  A bastion of stability in central
  Africa could fall apart if outsiders
  do not help: leader,page 10.
  A report from a conflict that has
  driven 500,000 from their
  homes, page 38


• A hard-headed guide to
  diversityHow to make your firm
  more inclusive,page 51


• Our poll of Britain’s swing
  seatsThe first in our five-part
  series of constituency polls finds
  the Conservatives struggling to
  win in a crucial Midlands
  marginal,page 46