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PakistanMight Imran Khan

surprise as prime minister?

Page 40. Donald Trump is

better on Afghanistan than his

predecessor was: Lexington

page 32

Mission statementsWhen

visions and values descend into

verbiage: Bartleby page 50

ProductivityThe history of

spinners’ wages at the start of

the Industrial Revolution

couldshed light on a modern

mystery: Free exchange page 61

Philosophy briefWe begin our

six-part series on liberalism’s

greatest thinkers. Their ideas

still matter: leader page 12.

John Stuart Mill the father of

liberalism page 55

China

44 Tianjin’s woes

Where are the people?

45 Dog racing in Macau

Bow-wowing out

International

46 The world order

Coalitions without Trump

Business

49 China’s new dealmakers

The venture whales

50 Bartleby

Mission implausible

51 The technology industry

FAT WIN v MAGA

52 Food labelling

Got oats?

52 Business and demography

Silver linings

53 Autonomous cars

Gently does it

54 The blockchain and energy

Greens meet geeks

Philosophy brief

55 John Stuart Mill

Tyranny of the majority

Finance and economics

57 Greece

Far from the finish line

58 Consumer lending

Buy now pay later

59 Asset management

How low can you go?

59 Myanmar’s state-owned

enterprises

Living fossils

60 Buttonwood

Made in Japan

61 Free exchange

Homespun economics

Science and technology

64 Wildfires

Forewarned is forearmed

65 Long sightedness

I can see clearly now

66 Environmental safety

Hazchem or not?

66 Marine biology

The biter bit

Books and arts

67 Ten years on

The last crash and the next

68 Classical music

Making an orchestra

69 Mikhail Zoshchenko

Soviet satire

69 Indian independence

Midnight at the margins

70 Johnson

The cost of an accent

72 Economic and financial

indicators

Statistics on 42 economies

plus a closer look at

manufacturing

Obituary

74 Mary Ellis

In love with Spitfires