The Economist - USA (2022-01-29)

6 Contents The Economist January 29th 2022

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Asia

45 Myanmar’s flailing junta

47 Life in Afghanistan

47 Kazakhifying Kazakhstan

48 BanyanSanctions that

work

China

49 A closed-loop Olympics

51 ChaguanWhat China

thinks about Ukraine

International

52 The diplomacy of

microchips

Business

54 The internet’s future

55 Coding for the masses

56 New supply-chain pains

57 BartlebyPick your

purpose

58 The chip boom. And bust?

59 SchumpeterThe Mittal

dynasty

Finance&economics

60 Market turmoil

61 Commodity prices

62 Omicron and the economy

63 Deutsche Bank’s revival

64 #MoneyTok

65 Free exchange

Quantitative tightening

Science&technology

66 Flying taxis

67 Data privacy

68 Rhinos and plants

69 A new type of camera

Culture

70 A history of the bbc

71 On the trail of textiles

72 Home Entertainment

Pliny’s wisdom

73 A critique of the mega-rich

73 Resurrecting Handel

74 JohnsonLost languages

Economic&financialindicators

76 Statistics on 42 economies

Graphicdetail

77 The fading dominance of English in streamed music

Obituary

78 Thich Nhat Hanh, father of mindfulness