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If China invaded Taiwan it would probably involve an amphibious assault, one of the most difficult forms of warfare. Taiwan’s beaches are heavily fortified https://econ.st/3rpEP0T #press
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Chicago has an outsized grip on America’s imagination. In the words of Barack Obama, its most famous adopted son, it is a “quintessentially American city”. These books will help you understand it https://econ.st/3NS2ezp #press
Victoria Amelina explored a land of atrocities and secrets https://econ.st/3rqCsLb #press
“What we are talking about is potentially the end of human history. Not the end of history, just the end of its human-dominated part,” he warns in a guest essay https://econ.st/3pQtNRC #press
The Chinese are working more hours than ever https://econ.st/3NPa7FY #press
Asia is rowing about Fukushima nuclear wastewater https://econ.st/44obUJ8 #press
Insurance is a tool of climate adaptation. If prices are wrong, society will be more hurt by a hotter world than otherwise be the case https://econ.st/46QmxpO #press
The last, unfulfilled dream of Jamie Dimon, king of Wall Street https://econ.st/3DeYFhX #press
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A school district in Utah has banned the Bible from some school libraries on the grounds of indecency https://econ.st/3JKbvZ2 #press
Little information exists about female drug bosses—and it is dangerous to collect more. The investigative reporting that has gone into “Narcas” is impressive https://econ.st/3K1UB8r #press
One looming question is the extent to which the election of Donald Trump might boost mini-Trumps on Europe’s hard right. Just as Joe Biden proved that American power can unite Europeans, Mr Trump may yet display its power to divide them https://econ.st/43oyShK #press