The Economist (Asia Pacific) - 28 Jun 2025
How to win the peace
The treacherous economics of defence
Clashing over the next Dalai Lama
Chinese brands: soft-toy power
Conference-panel hell
The political payload
Outsourcing in Africa
Picking a Dalai Lama
Bangladesh’s blunder
Illegal gold-mining
Has Donald Trump solved Iran from the air?
The point of extra military spending is to make people safer. Politicians should not use the same pot of money to pursue multiple goals:
The war is over but its impact remains unclear, page 17. Assessments of the damage to Iran’s nuclear sites vary wildly,
On American finance, Ireland, political strongmen, opera, short songs, British politics
A new cohort of consumer firms is taking on sleepy Western incumbents. Good:
After the bombs must come a plan to reset the Middle East: leader,
Settling dust, swirling questions
Ban Ki-moon and Helen Clark on the UN’s dysfunction
China wants to pick his successor. He has other ideas,
One unfiltered moderator, three panellists and a universal experience:
The West meekly welcomes Donald Trump’s vigilante justice—at least for now: The Telegram,
Modern warfare is rapidly changing the arms business,
From Labubu dolls to Laopu Gold, Chinese brands are booming,
Obliterated or obscured?
A summary of political and business news
How to win the peace
Unban the Awami League
Treacherous economics
A surprise East Asian love-in
Constitutional change in Colombia
The political fallout,
Peace in his time
Defence and deindustrialisation,
Vaccine madness
They’re here
The rush into engineering
Erotic writers in trouble
New York’s Democrats
Tariff troubles in India
36
Football in Suriname
More horror in Gaza
Violence in Nigeria
Japanese surnames
Buying the Lakers
RFK and vaccines
Asia’s fallen saint
Gimmicky taxes
Oklahoma City
The Vera Rubin Observatory
Chinese brands surge
Industrial strategy
A tricky NATO summit
Modern warfare and the arms industry
Escaping taxes
Violeta Chamorro, Nicaragua’s first woman president
Statistics on 42 economies
Sex work in the gig economy
Longevity drugs
Prediction markets
How autocrats divide Europe
A streetside “Evita”
Trump, the Lone Ranger
Who still needs Accenture?
Manic commodity cycles
Conference panels
William F. Buckley
The return of Andrej Babis
F1’ s entertainment empire
Germany’s budget binge
AI valuations go crazy
The fragrance oligopoly
Car suppliers in trouble
The motorsport cluster
Profile Wendell Weeks
The best recent novels
Jane Street’s tech trick
Feral Labour
A migration museum
Zombies and Brexit
OnlyFans and porn
Jobs and defence
Absent migrants
Science sceptics
Fighting robots
The world this week
The world this week
How to win the peace
Vaccine madness
The economic consequences of war
Unban the Awami League
China’s new brand ambassadors
American finance, Ireland’s tax regime, why laws are essential, opera, short songs, Britain’s political class
Culture has no borders
Ban Ki-moon and Helen Clark
Settling dust, swirling questions
Iran’s nuclear programme
Obliterated or simply obscured?
The more things change
Banyan: A surprise East Asian love-in
Japan’s civil war over surnames
Tariff troubles in India
Asia’s fallen saint
The art of no deal
A tarnished legacy
Names and shame
BANYAN
Who will be the chosen one?
The rush into engineering
Erotic writers in trouble
Giant cuffs
Studying the illiberal arts
I came, I bombed Iran
Lexington: Solving Iran
New York’s Democrats
Buying the Lakers
RFK and vaccines
Gimmicky taxes
OKC
Socialism for thee
Please tax us
Showtime buttons up
Big-league city
MAHA, not funny
Peace in his time
Is gold better business than drugs?
Constitutional change in Colombia
Football in Suriname
The desperation of Gustavo Petro
Pass the passports
The world’s next back office
Violence worsens in central Nigeria
Charting the horrors in Gaza
Deaths in the night
Charting the horrors
Meltdown averted
Defence spending and the economy
Charlemagne: Dividing Europe
The return of Andrej Babis
Fighting robots in Ukraine
Germany’s budget binge
The jobs of war
The big borrowing binge
Rise of the robots
Bitcoins, Babis and automobiles
When soft power meets hard-nosed autocrats
A lobbyist’s dream
The Formula One cluster
Bagehot: Feral Labour
— Non-doms’ exodus
— Cousin marriage
In the driving seat
Feral Labour
Sex work in the gig economy
The Telegram: Lone Ranger
A new sheriff in town
Soft-toy power
Bartleby: Conference-panel hell
Hazard signals for car suppliers
How OnlyFans disrupted porn
Schumpeter: Accenture v AI
The fragrance oligopoly
Profile: Wendell Weeks
AI valuations go crazy
Part company
Vibe valuations
Getting paid
Big Smell
Man of glass
The conference panel
Listen to Boss Class Season 2
Will AI take out Accenture?
Complex post-industrial military
Minimising, maximised
What collapsing immigration means
Free exchange: Manic commodities
Buttonwood: Prediction markets
Jane Street’s sneaky tactic
A large hump
Can’t live with them...
The dream scenario
Wild ride
My God, it’s full of stars
Scepticism in science is on the rise
Well informed: Longevity drugs
Find out more
Beyond doubt
Do longevity drugs work?
Right on
Best novels of the second quarter
Back Story: A streetside “Evita”
A new museum about migration
F1’s entertainment empire
Zombies and Brexit
Infectious storytelling
Hang on their words
Frame of mind
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Pitt stop
Economic & financial indicators
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