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America is likely to be tested over Taiwan—and sooner than many think. New Chinese plans for the island sidestep the all-or-nothing gamble of an outright invasion econ.st/4d0mqLB
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The metals at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean could help meet long-term demand during the energy transition from fossil fuels, while reducing the human suffering and ecological damage that accompanies the mining of cobalt and nickel on land
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African governments should embrace the idea of emigration as an export and seek to maximise the benefits and minimise the costs
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Martin Graham’s passion for building was unsurprising; before he left school, he had set up a concrete-mixing business. But his musical passion was harder to explain. Our obituary
Europe is a shrinking force in the global economy. It is a luxury to pretend otherwise. Some of the continent’s red tape is already being cut. Far more could be, especially close to home
The Communist Party is turning to the gig economy because it is vast: the state-controlled trade-union federation estimates there are 84m people relying on “new forms of employment”, including delivery services and ride-hailing
America accounts for much less than a fifth of global trade. China, on the other hand, is the biggest trading partner for over a hundred countries and it hopes to pick up some of the international goodwill destroyed by Donald Trump
“Sunrise on the Reaping” comes with epigraphs from George Orwell (on truth) and David Hume (on government). This is death with dystopian pretensions
Forget the sport’s inveterate declinism. Snooker is a strange, and very British, story of success econ.st/4iK3ja6
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The miracle-cure properties of China’s gig economy are leading to its political rehabilitation econ.st/3SkZ5L6
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The coffee chain’s new boss is struggling to fix its problems
“I still have my job and mean to keep it, for the moment at least. I’m doing my best to sidestep the tripwires.”
An anonymous lawyer in America’s justice department on surviving under the Trump administration, for 1843 magazine
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s restaurant in St Petersburg was frequented by Vladimir Putin. Favour followed, as did government contracts. In 2014 "Putin's chef" traded borscht for bullets
In 1990s audiences at Longborough Festival Opera perched on benches and straw bales. But in 2013 it was the only place in Britain to stage Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen”, in full.
Martin Graham had built a place of glorious high culture
Italy’s tangled financial sector could become yet more confusing—and intriguing
