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Stockmarket mania comes to China again. Can it last this time?

There are grounds for optimism but also signs of irrational exuberance

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China is the world’s factory, more than ever

United States

Cutting American police budgets might have perverse effects

Without other changes, it might even set back the effort to reform how police deal with black citizens

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Middle East & Africa

The bitter dispute over Africa’s largest dam

Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan are struggling to share water

The Americas

The Dominican Republic changes its ruling party

The new president has a mandate, but the pandemic and a severe recession will disrupt his plans

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Finance & economics

Buttonwood: Why zero interest rates might lead to currency volatility

There is little scope for them to adjust to economic trouble. So something else must

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Many Americans are ready to question the result of the presidential election

A study finds that a significant share of partisans will support a re-run if they don’t get their way

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Prospero

Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone had a unique film-making partnership

The director and composer reshaped the Western, and drew up a new blueprint for movie soundscapes

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Covid-19 is here to stay. People will have to adapt

Leaders

Multinationals love India more than it loves them

Europe

A phoney referendum shows Putin’s legitimacy is fading

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How speedy lockdowns save lives

Early stay-at-home orders contained covid-19 the best

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What if water shortages destabilise China?

The painfully unequal distribution of water in China reawakens intra-regional resentments not seen in decades. An imagined scenario from 2050

The World If

What if nuclear power had taken off in the 1970s?

How would the world look today if more countries had adopted nuclear power after the 1973 oil crisis? A look back on an alternative history from a rather different 2020

The World If

What if technology tracked all carbon emissions?

The World If

What if mammoths are brought back from extinction?

Special report: The new world disorder

Global leadership is missing in action

Seventy-five years ago the world’s leaders designed the peace even as they fought the war. Today’s leaders need to do something similar, says Daniel Franklin

Who runs the world?

As America gets tired, China gets busy

The UN has too much on its plate

Missions impossible

The clock is ticking for nuclear arms control

Avoidable Armageddon

The UN’s structures built in 1945 are not fit for 2020, let alone beyond it

Grand redesigns

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