The Economist - USA (2021-01-30)

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Contents

The world this week

7 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

9 Proliferation

Who will go nuclear next?

10 Europe’s vaccine roll-out

Shot in the foot

10 World trade

The folly of Buy American

11 The Palestinians

Time for Abbas to go

12 America in Asia

Freenottochoose

Letters

15 On Donald Trump,

Lincolnshire, Switzerland,

Erasmus

Briefing

16 Nuclear proliferation

Who’s next?

United States

19 Joe Biden’s start

20 Vaccinating minorities

21 Pickleball

21 Impeachment

22 Trans women in prisons

23 The off-piste skiing boom

24 LexingtonQAnon and

otherdelusions

The Americas

25 Ecuador’s balsa boom

27 Bootleg booze in Colombia

Asia

28 Biden and Asia

29 Mongolia’s snowflake PM

30 Japan’s dull PM

30 A drug lord is nabbed

31 BanyanIndia’s budget

China

32 Trade union reform

33 Foreign students complain

34 ChaguanAssimilation of

minorities

Middle East & Africa

35 Overdue polls in Palestine

36 Royal peeping in Morocco

37 Obesity in Africa

38 A tale of two billionaires

BanyanIndia’s budgets

are becoming ever less

reformist, page 31

On the cover

The world is facing an upsurge
of proliferation. To stop it,
nuclear powers need to act:
leader,page 9. There has not
been a new nuclear state since

2006. Who’s next? Briefing,
      page 16

• The folly of Buy American
  President Joe Biden’s
  protectionism sullies his economic
  agenda: leader,page 10. His
  executive order may not have its
  intended effect, page 59


• Europe’s vaccine nationalism
  Fussy decision-making has
  slowed Europe’s roll-out of
  covid-19 jabs—and threatens its
  economy: leader,page 10. Delays
  in delivery are causing tempers
  to flare and timetables to slip,
  page 39


• Can Boeing still fly?
  The American planemaker may
  need government help to
  survive: Schumpeter,page 56

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