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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. 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