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The EconomistJanuary12th20193
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Contents
The world this week
6Around-up of political
andbusinessnews
LeadersChinese science
Red moon risingPolitics in Washington
How the shutdown endsBritain’s opposition
Still having its cakePakistan
PraetorianpenuryPeaksmartphone
BadnewsforApple.Good
newsforhumanity
Letters
14Onanimalrights,
genocide,working,
Foucault,Brexit,Santa
Claus
BriengPakistan
Talesofself-harm
United States
21The shutdown, contd.
22Health economics
23Swatting
24#MeToo’s foes
25Chicago corruption
26
Lexington
John Kasich:
conservativeorphan
The Americas
27Nicolás Maduro’s mess
28Protecting scarlet macaws
30
Bello
Brazil’s confused
foreign policy
Asia
31Health care in Japan
32The king of Malaysia
33Quotas in India
33Refugees in the outback
34
Banyan
Democracy in
Taiwan
China
35Unemployment woes
36Detecting HIV
37
Chaguan
A craze for
1,800-year-old fashion
Middle East & Africa
38Protests in Sudan
39Congo’s new president
39Coups in Africa
40America and Iraq
41Agritech in Israel
Charlemagne
The notion
of an east-west split in
the EU is simplistic and
defeatist,
page 46
On the cover
If China dominates science,
should the world worry
Leader,
page 9
. It has become a
leading scientic power. Can it
go on to become a great one
Page6The world’s least successful
presidentAfter a catastrophic
rst term, Nicolás Maduro is
digging in for a second,
page 27
Putin threatens Belarus
As Vladimir Putin tightens his
bear-hug, the leader of Belarus
ghts back,
page 42.
Two new
documentaries depict the
optimistic beginning and
eventual fraying of Mr Putin’s
long reign,
page 73
Pakistan: impoverished by its
armyThe penury of Pakistan’s
208m citizens is a disgrace—and
the army is to blame: leader,
page 11
. Why Imran Khan will
struggle to make their life better:
Brieng,
page 17
How the mighty dollar falls
The fate of the greenback will
shape nancial markets in 2019,
page 62
. Against the dollar, other
currencies are at their cheapest
in 30 years: Graphic detail,
page 81