The fact that the yen has been so weak against a falling greenback is remarkable. It is doubly striking, because the gap ...

As The Economist went to press, Britain’s prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, was visiting China’s president, Xi Jinping, the ...

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But while the language is unprecedentedly wounding, it has mostly been said before, though more gently: generations of ...