The Economist (Asia Pacific) - 13 Sep 2025
The $3trn bet on AI
Sabres rattle in Poland and Qatar
Peak human, falling fertility
Dan Brown: sects maniac
Socialists in America
Even if artificial intelligence achieves its potential, many people will lose their shirts:
Can you make it to the end of this column?
Israel’s latest target
The yuan goes global
The Trump doctrine
The murder of Charlie Kirk
The race to run Japan
Letters
Sabres rattle in Poland and Qatar
Socialists in America
Dan Brown: sects maniac
Israel’s extra-territorial campaign against terrorists has to have limits:
America no longer looks able to protect its partners in the Gulf,
Peak human, falling fertility
Meredith Whittaker on AI’s threat to privacy
Poland’s prime minister warns of “open conflict” with Russia,
A summary of political and business news
AI stocks are soaring. How bad would a crash be?
The $3trn bet
Faith in God-like large language models is waning,
How low will it go?
Coping with fewer people
A contracting population does not have to be poorer,
The drug war’s new front
The centre is leaking
NATO’s credibility test
What’s a socialist?
AIs and privacy:
Qatarstrophic error
Don’t panic
China’s unlikely comedians
San Francisco’s recall fever
Lights, camera, truncheon
A knife fight in the Pacific
Medical help for Gazans
Low-income consumers
The RSS at 100
Convicting Bolsonaro
Ethiopia’s mega-dam
Planned Parenthood
Hyundai in Georgia
Revolution in Nepal
Milei’s first defeat
Shutdown season
Ebola in Congo
African ferries
The numbers,
War in the air and sea
Nitazenes are spreading
Britain’s voting blocs
Dan Brown returns
Peak LLM?
Russia’s drone strike on Poland
The AI stockmarket
Giorgio Armani, maestro of elegance
Statistics on 42 economies
Sexy-boring France
Europe’s anti-Trump resistance
The economics of attention
Inflation jitters
The lord of “Downton Abbey"
Performance reviews
Fixing hangovers
The misery of power
France’s new prime minister
The urgency deficit
Unpronounceable brands
Songs about sub-par men
Another new Nestlé boss
William Morris's appeal
China’s trade resilience
America's constitution
Rupert Murdoch’s heir
Martian biosignatures
Gout Gout, track star
Sea Ltd makes waves
Voters’ demography
Bosnia on the brink
Europe’s economy
Wallaby invaders
Table-top fusion
Italy and Russia
Long-term care
American aid
Niche sports
Cheap grain
The world this week
The world this week
The $3trn bet on AI
Peak human
Qatarstrophic error
Credibility on the line
The futility of drug wars
Is British politics broken?
Down on the farm
The meritocratic class
Parading power
A wronged man
Making chips
Miserable teenagers
The spy who loved me
Letters
Meredith Whittaker
The era of contraction
An optimistic view
Shrinking without sinking
On your marks
A knife fight in the Pacific
Banyan: The RSS at 100
Revolution in Nepal
Clearing the decks
Fire and water
RSS 100
The yuan’s big moment
A new stand-up star
Dalifornia dreaming
Welcoming you to Dalifornia
Laughing all the way to the bank
Beyond debate
Lexington: What’s a socialist?
San Francisco’s recall fever
Lights, camera, truncheon
Planned Parenthood
Hyundai in Georgia
Shutdown season
Bye-undai
Swab tests
Silly season
Lights, camera, truncheon
Schumer’s dilemma
Left ahead
Making the Americas grate again
Convicting Bolsonaro
Milei’s first defeat
The cost of losing
A process of conviction
All tactics, no strategy
Ethiopia opens a big new dam
An Ebola outbreak in Congo
Medical help for Gazans
Fixing African ferries
A long wait for help
Riparian rancour
Return of a deadly virus
Fixing ferries
Dangerous drones
Charlemagne: The urgency deficit
France’s new prime minister
Bosnia on the brink
Long-term care
Italy and Russia
Last-chance saloon
Alarm bells
Old money
Mixed messages
Europe’s urgency deficit
The new battle for Britain
Bagehot: The misery of power
Voters’ demography
Wallabies
Champagne socialists
Mob rule
What happens when nothing matters?
Top Gun—without Maverick
The Telegram: Leading the resistance
Europe’s anti-Trump resistance leader
Peak LLM?
Lachlan Murdoch outfoxes his siblings
Schumpeter: Sexy-boring France
China’s unpronounceable brands
Niche sports steal the spotlight
Bartleby: Performance reviews
Another new Nestlé boss
Sea Ltd makes waves
Making waves
Chasing returns
From sweet to bitter
Lost in translation
The son wot won it
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When boring beats sexy
Glitch in the matrix
Free exchange: Attention economics
Grain goes from feast to famine
Buttonwood: Inflation nerves
Glimmers of hope for Europe
Donald Trump’s aid agency
China’s thriving trade
Futile fortress
A sovereign-wealth fund in disguise
Long time coming
We’re hiring:
From famine to feast
Conflict of interest
The economics of attention
The dangers of nitazenes
Life on Mars?
Well informed: Fixing hangovers
Miniature fusion reactors
Bring it home!
Table-top power stations
Do hangover supplements work?
Sects sells
The real lord of “Downton Abbey”
Why William Morris endures
America’s rigid constitution
Songs about mediocre men
Gout Gout, track star
The fastest kid on Earth
The notion of a nation
Lad-loathing lyrics
Strawberry thieves forever
Lord of the manners
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