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AUGUST
15TH
–
21ST 2015
Economist.com
The meaning of the multiverse
Xi’s history lessons
How China rewrites
the past to control
the future
Contents
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The world this week
Leaders
China, East Asia and
history
Xi’s history lessons
Corporate tax in America
Inverted logic
The world economy
Stuck in the middle
Temporal politics
Rulers of time
Letter from the editor
A new chapter
31 Population forecasts
India v China
31 Politics in Japan
Abe’s polls slide
32 Apology diplomacy
The hardest word
Essay
33 Asia’s second-world-war
ghosts
The unquiet past
China
39 China and Russia
Packing up the suitcase
trade
40 The environment
Mapping the invisible
scourge
40 A blast in Tianjin
Managing disaster
Middle East and Africa
Islamic State
The propaganda war
Algeria
Bouteflika buffeted
Israel’s defence spending
Locker hurt
Kuwait and Islamic State
Terrorists v Muslims
Nigeria’s oil company
Petrodollar spill
Comedy in South Africa
To laugh or cry
Europe
Ukrainian prisoners in
Russia
The Kremlin’s new show
trials
Russia’s food embargo
The bonfire of the vans
of cheese
Turkey’s Kurds
Bombs away
Italian politics
The centre-right collapses
French slang
Arabesque
Charlemagne
Robert Conquest and
communism
The Economist
August 15th 2015
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On the cover
China’s Communist Party is
plundering history to justify
its present-day ambitions:
leader, page 11. Seven
decades after Japan’s defeat,
memories of war still divide
East Asia: Essay, pages
33-38. Shinzo Abe’s
statement on the second
world war is unlikely to
change much, page 32
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Letters
15 On the House of Lords,
Donald Trump, minimum
wages, ETFs, Ecuador,
deficits
United States
Urban crime
Midsummer murder
Paying for college
More is less
America and Cuba
Cuban deals
Taxis v Uber
A tale of two cities
New York property
Towering silliness
Hillary Clinton and her
e-mails
Other people’s rules
The EPA spill
Arsenic and lost face
Lexington
Anger management
The Americas
Honduras and Guatemala
A Central American
spring?
The Chinese in Canada
Long live Cantopop
Rubbish in Brazil
Legislative landfill
Bello
Next steps in Havana
How Islamic State recruits
Britain is struggling to deal
with a new breed of
fundamentalist, page 50. The
terrorists’ vicious message is
surprisingly hard to rebut,
page 41
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The new show trials
Russia is
no longer confining its abuse
of the law to its own citizens,
page 45. What the West, and
the Soviet Union’s victims,
owe to Robert Conquest:
Charlemagne, page 49
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Caesarean sections
The global
rise of C-sections is being
driven not by medical necessity
but by growing wealth—and
perverse financial incentives
for doctors, page 53
Asia
29 Brunei
All pray and no work
30 Politics in Indonesia
Bye-bye beer banner
30 Afghanistan and the
Taliban
A bloody message
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