The Economist (Asia Pacific) - 19 Jul 2025
Winning the war on CANCER
The rise and rise of women’s sport
The geopolitics-defying economy
AI and the death of the web
KGB v CIA
Progress against cancer has been slow, steady—and remarkable. Long may that continue:
Mexico’s handouts
Trumpcare
Israel strikes Damascus
A nasty China- EU summit approaches
Japan’s messy politics
Free exchange
On the Federal Reserve, prediction markets, the Democrats, the Shipping Forecast, bed-ins, sex work
The geopolitics-defying economy
AI and the death of the web
The rise and rise of women’s sport
Rishi Sunak on “everyday” artificial intelligence
KGB v CIA
How the advances against a killer are mounting up:
A summary of political and business news
How the economy has evaded each and every crisis,
Making progress
Winning the war
The tragedy of the digital commons,
Super-malfunction
Teflon capitalism, tested
The tragedy of the web
The least relevant superhero
Unreliable U- turn
Red- and blue-state housing
Wyoming’s MAGA makeover
China’s resilient exports
Ire over a student’s fling
Delicious British food
Silicon island
India-Pakistan fallout
The Houthis resurge
The diplomat of Oz
Ethiopia’s economy
Smelly sargassum
Buhari’s Nigeria
Haitian justice
Morbid maths
Aid in Gaza
The rise and rise of women’s sport
Universities challenged
The death of the web
Does AI make you stupid?
KGB v CIA
Brussels sprouts a budget
Teflon capitalism
Simon Groot, the Dutch seedsman who fed the world
Statistics on 42 economies
AI’s slow spread
Germany and Gaza
The superstar conundrum
India meets its match
Jensen Huang, diplomat
The Afghan mess
The hype for sovereign AI
Stablecoins
China’s forced adoptions
Sneaky mortgage tactics
Creatine
Decoding football shirts
Switzerland and the EU
Trendy analogue media
Wacky concert fashion
Water: cooler than ever
Big food in big trouble
Trump turns on Putin
Tourists find Albania
Trump’s copper folly
Ukraine’s drone war
A rare-earth gamble
Why we feel sleepy
The Big Mac index
India’s hotel boom
Sectoral tariffs
The world this week
The world this week
Winning the war against cancer
Unreliable Ukrainian U-turn
The tragedy of the web
Teflon capitalism, tested
An Afghan super-malfunction
From chaos comes brilliance
There are good Democrats
Visibility is good
The Federal Reserve’s limits
All we are saying
It’s been around a long time
Letters
Rishi Sunak
Less deadly than you think
Hot mess
Banyan: Malaysia’s Silicon island
Australia’s foreign-policy whizz
The fallout from India-Pakistan
Crash course
An Aussie exemplar
Asia’s other Silicon island
China and Europe’s savage squabble
Sexist outrage over a student’s fling
China’s export machine
Trading places
Chaguan,
Trouble from Olympus
Trumpcare
Wyoming’s MAGA makeover
Housing in the sunbelt
Lexington: Supermen
Morbid maths
British food
Quantifying Trumpcare
Peak exodus?
Proof in the pudding
All politics is national
The American weight
The trouble with handouts
Smelly sargassum
Haitian justice
Justice confused
Sand, sun and stench
Bombs on Damascus
Ethiopia overhauls its economy
Muhammadu Buhari’s Nigeria
Gaza’s deadly aid system
The Houthis are back
Cease ceasefire
Deaths in the queue
A fragile overhaul
Baba goes home
Brussels begins its budget bickering
Charlemagne: Germany and Gaza
Switzerland and the EU
Trump turns on Putin
Tourists find Albania
Ukraine’s drone war
A pivot, perhaps
Droning on
Thirsty for tourists
Integration watch
Stumbling over the past
Leaner learning
Bagehot: The Afghan mess
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— Anglo-German relations
— Coming from America?
— Proliferating bats
A portrait of failure
A whole new ball game
The Telegram: Indian elites off-kilter
Thailand and BIMSTEC advance global trade connectivity
Transactional India meets its match
World wide worries
The hype for sovereign AI
Schumpeter: Jensen Huang, diplomat
Bartleby: The superstar conundrum
Big food in big trouble
A rare-earth gamble
Trump’s copper folly
India’s hotel boom
Castles in the cloud
Red flag
Ketchup if you can
Raring to go
Room boom
The superstar conundrum
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Jensen Huang, ping-pong diplomat
Disaster-proof capitalism
Americans’ sneaky mortgage tactics
Trump’s real threat: industry tariffs
Buttonwood: Stablecoin genius?
Free exchange: AI’s slow spread
Big Macs and trade wars
Passion project
Ground down
The rate escape
A stroke of genius?
Snail’s pace
How AI changes the way you think
Explaining the urge to sleep
Well informed: Taking creatine
Bedtime story
Should you take creatine?
Spooky stuff
Concert fashion
China’s forced adoptions
Decoding football shirts
Trendy analogue media
Water: cooler than ever
Getup to get down
The child snatchers
Top dollar
Trickle-down economics
Rage against the machine
Economic & financial indicators
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