The Economist UK - 10.08.2019

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Contents

The world this week

6 A summary of political

and financial news

Leaders

9 The future of Hong Kong

How will this end?

10 US-China trade

Dangerous escalation

10 Mass shootings

It’s the guns

11 Kashmir’s status

Modi’s bad move

12 Endangered species

The elephant in the room

Letters

14 On happiness and

politics, Zhao Ziyang,

America, plastic, Boris

Johnson, the Moon

Briefing

16 Turmoil in Hong Kong

Seeing red

Britain

19 Can anyone stop no-deal?

20 5G in Scotland’s islands

21 Justice by algorithm

21 A pre-election splurge?

22 Free ports’ pros and cons

23 Life on the Irish border

24 BagehotTheresa 2.

Europe

25 Migrants in Italy

26 Norway’s fish-smugglers

26 Brussels’ revolving doors

27 Social care in the

Netherlands

27 Tension in the Black Sea

28 The Faroes’ puffins

29 CharlemagneThe

eastern summer

United States

30 Mass shootings

31 Toni Morrison

32 Sheriff Tom Dart

33 Wyoming coal

34 LexingtonRowing about

rights

The Americas

35 Espírito Santo, Brazil’s

model state

36 Argentina’s election

37 Venezuela’s sanctions

37 Cruises and the Caribbean

Middle East & Africa

38 African universities

39 More mathematicians

40 Liberia on the edge

40 Ride-sharing in Lebanon

41 Egypt’s poor

ButtonwoodHow

yuan-dollar became the

world’s most closely

watched asset price,

page 58

On the cover

If China were to react brutally,
the consequences would be
disastrous—and not just for
Hong Kong: leader,page 9.
Asia’s pre-eminent financial
centre is on the brink: briefing,
page 16

• Guns: America’s tragic
  exceptionalismOther rich
  countries do not have frequent
  mass shootings. There is a
  simple reason for that: leader,
  page 10. America grapples with a
  lethal mix of terrorism and lax
  gun laws,page 30


• Modi’s bad move on Kashmir
  The revocation of its autonomy
  points to a radical nationalist
  agenda: leader,page 11.
  Narendra Modi dashes the old
  rules in a bid to remake a
  troubled territory, page 42


• From trade war to currency
  warAmerica cannot have a
  strong economy, rising tariffs
  and a weak dollar all at the same
  time: leader,page 10. Hostilities
  escalate, and the fog of war
  descends, page 57


• Seed capitalism—the
  business of fertility Investors
  are pouring money into
  companies that promise to help
  people conceive,page 51