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Asia Letters must be next: leader, page 15. On Afghanistan, Asia The world is finally burning 22 diplomats, Hong Kong, 39 Taiwan’s perky economy less of the stuff. It now faces the Democrats, the colour the challenge of using almost 40 India’s wild inequality black, hipsters none at all: briefing, page 25 41 Coal in Australia 42 Dynasticism in Indonesia • Digital health care’s leap Briefing forward The world’s most 42 Japan’s hungry ungulates 25 Coal’s endgame complex and immovable Crushing it 43 Banyan 50 years after a industry has been reinventing novelist’s seppuku itself: leader, page 16 and analysis, page 61. Artificial China intelligence is solving one of A beefier coastguard biology’s biggest challenges, 44 page 75. The pandemic has 45 Jailings in Hong Kong pushed Britain’s National Health 45 Hong Kong’s grand plan Service to breaking point. It has 46 Chaguan The costs of also brought forth a wave of bullying other countries innovation, page 55 • Taiwan’s perky economy Covid-19 has ravaged economies Middle East & Africa all over the world—but not 47 Biden’s ideas on Iran Taiwan’s, page 39 49 Torturing refugees eu • Torture on the ’s doorstep 50 Victory in Ethiopia? Having stolen an election, 50 Boko Haram kills farmers Belarus’s government is abusing those who object: leader, page 16. An interview with Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, page 51 Charlemagne Why shutting down Europe’s ski resorts proves so tricky, page 54 We are working hard to ensure that there is no dis- ruption to print copies of The Economist as a result of the coronavirus. But if you have digital access as part of your subscription, then acti- vating it will ensure that you can always read the digital version of the newspaper as well as all of our daily jour- nalism. To do so, visit economist.com/activate 1 Contents continues overleaf 8 Contents The Economist December 5th 2020 Europe Finance & economics 51 An interview with 68 Ping An’s fintech might Belarus’s leader in exile 70 Data and the quant boom 52 Istanbul’s next earthquake 70 Biden’s economic team 53 France’s security law 71 Buttonwood The case 53 Dutch populism for Europe 54 Charlemagne To ski or 72 Investing in royalties not to ski? 72 India’s stockmarket rally 73 Free exchange Digital Britain currencies 55 The NHS unleashed 57 Trans rights Science & technology 57 The Brexit endgame 75 How proteins fold 58 Bagehot Boris’s 76 The Starship SN8 organisation man 77 Tracking fisherfolk 78 Covid-19 vaccine safety International 59 The growth of communal living Books & arts 79 Our books of the year 82 Books by our writers Business 61 Digital medicine 62 Pandemic gastronomy Economic & financial indicators 63 Volkswagen’s boss 84 Statistics on 42 economies 64 US Congress v China Inc 64 Chinese hospitality Graphic detail 65 Salesforce gets some Slack 85 A covid-19 vaccine and share prices 65 Swiss stakeholderism Obituary 66 Bartleby Managing by Diego Maradona, a genius fuelled by rage Zoom 86 67 Schumpeter Nestlé gets a pick-me-up Volume 437 Number 9223 Published since September 1843 Subscription service to take part in “a severe contest between For our full range of subscription offers, including The best way to contact our Customer Service Please intelligence, which presses forward, digital only or print and digital bundled, visit: team is via phone or live chat. 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Printed by Quad/Graphics, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 CALIBER RM 72-01 RICHARD MILLE BOUTIQUES ASPEN BAL HARBOUR BEVERLY HILLS BOSTON BUENOS AIRES LAS VEGAS MIAMI NEW-YORK CITY ST. BARTH VANCOUVER www.richardmille.com The world this week Politics The Economist December 5th 2020 11 Cuban police arrested 14 mem- Joe Biden filled out the rest of bers of a dissident group called his economic team for his Coronavirus briefs Movimiento San Isidro. They incoming government. Cecilia To 6am GMT December 3rd 2020 had locked themselves into the Rouse will lead the Council of Weekly confirmed cases by area, m movement’s headquarters in Economic Advisers, and Brian Havana, and some went on Deese the National Economic 2.0 Europe hunger and thirst strikes, to Council. Both were advisers in 1.5 US protest against the jailing of the White House during the Latin America 1.0 Denis Solís, a rapper charged global financial crisis in 2009. Other with disrespecting authority. The choice of Neera Tanden to 0.5 After the raid hundreds of head the Office of Management 0 activists gathered at the cul- and Budget is more contro- Britain became the first coun- ture ministry. In a small but versial. Ms Tanden has report- O SAJJMAM ND try to license a fully tested rare concession, the vice- edly deleted 1,000 tweets that Confirmed deaths* vaccine for covid-19. The minister of culture met a dele- disparaged Republican Per 100k Total This week medicines regulator gave its gation representing them. senators she now has to count Belgium 145.9 16,911 834 approval to the Pfizer/BioN- on to confirm her in the job. Peru 109.1 35,966 281 Tech jab following a “rolling Brazil’s space agency reported Spain 97.9 45,784 1,747 review” process, used to assess that 11,000 square km (4,000 A court in Hong Kong sen- Italy 94.3 57,045 5,017 promising vaccines during a square miles) of forest were tenced a prominent pro-de- Britain 87.9 59,699 3,166 Argentina 86.6 39,156 1,442 health emergency. Data from destroyed in the Amazon from mocracy activist, Joshua Wong, Mexico 83.4 107,565 3,968 the vaccination programme August 2019 to July 2020, the to more than 13 months in United States 82.3 272,520 11,482 will continue to be reviewed as most since 2008. prison for his role in a protest Brazil 82.1 174,515 3,746 they become available. Priority last year. Agnes Chow and Ivan Chile 80.8 15,438 300 distribution will start within a Ethiopian forces entered Lam, who were fellow leaders Sources: Johns Hopkins University CSSE; UN; week. America is expected to Mekelle, the capital of the of his now disbanded group, The Economist *Definitions differ by country approve a vaccine soon and the northern region of Tigray, less Demosisto, were also jailed. eu by the end of the month. than a month after the start of a The number of daily deaths in civil war between the federal In Beijing a court began hear- America approached their Boris Johnson faced his biggest government and the regional ings into a case involving a highest levels during the backbench rebellion since one.