The Economist USA - 10.08.2019

The EconomistAugust 10th 2019 3

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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

United States

19 Mass shootings

20 Toni Morrison

21 Sheriff Tom Dart

22 Wyoming coal

23 LexingtonRowing about

rights

The Americas

26 Espírito Santo, Brazil’s

model state

27 Argentina’s election

28 Venezuela’s sanctions

28 Cruises and the Caribbean

Asia

29 Modi’s Kashmir strike

30 Uzbekistan’s gulag

31 Japan’s constitution

31 Race in Singapore

China

32 Tensions with Taiwan

33 Saving old buildings

34 ChaguanThe Huawei

conundrum

Middle East & Africa

35 African universities

36 More mathematicians

37 Liberia on the edge

37 Ride-sharing in Lebanon

38 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 19


• 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 29


• 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 50