America files a new financial salvo at Beijing
May 14th 2020Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hubLAST SEPTEMBER a leak suggested that Donald Trump’s administration was mulling steps…
Could travel bubbles offer a route to economic recovery?
Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hubIT MAY BE a painful fact to contemplate during these locked-down days, but last…
Infections at nightclubs mar South Korea’s relaxation of restrictions
Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hubAPART FROM the temperature checks at the boarding gate and the face masks worn…
The Chinese and Indian armies settle a clash by fisticuffs
May 16th 2020THE LAST Indian soldiers to die on the country’s frontier with China, the longest disputed border in the world, were shot in 1975, when patrols from the two countries stumbled across one another in dense fog. The nuclear-armed neighbours have beefed up their border forces considerably since then, but have also worked to…
Covid-19 helps ballot-dodgers in Africa
Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hubSTRONGMEN TEND to find election observers rather a nuisance. The sharper-eyed ones make trickery…
Ethiopia is entering constitutional limbo
EVEN IN NORMAL times Ethiopia’s plans to hold national elections in August would have been fraught with uncertainty. Would they be free and fair? Would they help restore peace to a country riven by ethnic violence? Now, with the polls postponed indefinitely by covid-19, Ethiopia is approaching a constitutional crisis.By law Ethiopia’s parliament will reach…
The pandemic has spawned a new way to study medical records
May 14th 2020Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hubON MAY 7TH an article appeared on medRxiv, an online repository for…
Protecting great apes from covid-19
May 16th 2020Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hubLATE IN 1990, when Paul Kagame was hiding on the Congolese side…
How to fight an economic crisis in a monetary union
May 16th 2020Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hubWHEN PHILIP LANE joined the European Central Bank (ECB) nearly a year…
Turkey’s defence of the lira has been unwise and ineffective
May 16th 2020ISTANBUL AND HONG KONGPOLICYMAKERS IN emerging markets frequently complain that foreign capital is fickle. But foreign capital could be forgiven for having a similar gripe about emerging markets. On a conference call on May 6th Turkey’s finance minister, Berat Albayrak, was solicitous and reassuring, telling nervous overseas investors that the country’s dollar reserves…