The Economist - UK (2022-03-26)

The Economist March 26th 2022 3

Contents

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On the cover

The world this week

6 A summary of political

and business news

Leaders

9 Geopolitics and energy

Power play

10 China

Escaping zero-covid

10 Ukraine

Unfinished business

11 Fuel taxes

When duty falls

12 African economies

Long walk to free trade

Letters

14 On Vladimir Putin and

the West, private equity,

Richard Nixon, company

cults

Briefing

15 Beleaguered Ukraine

Time is an enemy

17 Reactionary Russia

A cult of war

Britain

21 The spring statement

22 Automating car washes

23 Hong Kongers at prayer

23 Locked up in lockdown

24 Building nuclear plants

26 Campus snitching

27 Bagehot Scotland’s

nationalist Tories

Europe

29 Testing euunity

30 Discontented France

30 Russian exiles in Istanbul

31 Digitising Italy

32 CharlemagneThe eu’s

energy crisis

United States

33 The new cold war

34 Madeleine Albright

35 Sports symbols

38 Drug pricing

38 The United States of

Amazon

40 LexingtonAmerica’s

clean-tech moment

The Americas

41 Guyana braces for oil

42 Cricket in Brazil

43 BelloRussia with

sunshine

Middle East & Africa

45 Boosting African trade

47 Syria’s dictator emerges

48 Thaw in Western Sahara

48 Nose-job tourism in

Lebanon

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SchumpeterThe

importance of Saudi

Aramco to the West may

be eclipsed by its Qatari

nemesis, page 69

The world’s energy industry
is about to be remade. But
energy insecurity is here to
stay: leader,page 9.Meet the
commodities giants behind
the energy transition,page 71.
The oil market,page 74.The
charm of small nuclear
reactors,page 78.American
clean tech: Lexington,page 40

Why Putin hates the West
The Kremlin’s cult of war, page 17.
A Putin bibliography, page 82.
Istanbul has become a Russian
refuge, page 30

Can Europe stick together over
Ukraine? The euhas united in
response. But staying as one is
getting harder, page 29.Weaning
Europe off Russian energy:
Charlemagne, page 32

What Biden can learn from
Truman Like the 33rd American
president, Joe Biden must strive
to curb both Russia and China
without blowing up the world,
page 33.For all America’s success
in supporting Ukraine, hard
times lie ahead: leader, page 10

Rishi and the high-tax Tories
The chancellor longs to be
known as a tax­cutter, but he
does not deserve it, page 21.
Don’t lower taxes on fuel: leader,
page 11.Have economists led
ecologists astray? Free
exchange, page 77

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