The economist April 20, 2019

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The Spirit of Travel
Out of the ashes of Notre Dame
Buttigieg: unpronounceable. Electable?
What causes coups
See the blight: crops and climate change
APRIL20TH–26TH2019
The trouble with
tech unicorns

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Contents The EconomistApril20th2019 5
The world this week United States
8 Asummary of political 27 Democratic fault lines
andbusinessnews
28 Writers v agents
29 Primary polling
Leaders
29 Freeing Washington
13 Tech stars
30 Measles in New York
The trouble with unicorns
31 Overturning referendums
14 Notre Dame
The human spark 31 The Stratolaunch
14 Crops and climate 32 LexingtonPeteButtigieg
Time to see the blight
15 Hacking and the law The Americas
JusticeforJulianAssange 33 Quebec’s hijab ban
16 Spain 34 Jamaica’s ganja gamble
On the cover
Headingnowhere?
35 BelloThe wisdom of José
Millions of users, cool brands
Carlos Mariátegui
and charismatic bosses. Tech’s
Letters
latest stars have everything—
20 OnKazakhstan,workers,
except a path to high profits:
Oregon,Britain,cannabis,
leader,page 13. The wave of
ethics,Parkinson’s Asia
very highly valued startups
disease,cherrytrees,
heading to market suggests 36 Japan’s military posture
Facebook
that Silicon Valley needs to 37 Pakistan’s avian diplomacy
rethink its focus: briefing,
38 BanyanDemocracy in
Briefing
page23
Kyrgyzstan
23 Unicornsgoingtomarket
•Out of the ashes of Notre 39 Coalition-building in India
Herdinstincts
DameIt is not wrong to care
39 Elections in Indonesia
more about a building than
40 Cambodia’seconomy
about people: leader,page 14.
The fire has devastated the
China
world’s most famous cathedral.
But not destroyed it, page 47 41 Immigration reform
•Buttigieg: unpronounceable. 42 Angry tech workers
Electable?Pete Buttigieg’s 43 ChaguanWestern
canny fusing of liberalism and solidarity
tradition is a natural extension
of his marriage: Lexington,
page 32
•What causes coupsTrying to Middle East & Africa
spot the next despot to be 44 China and the Arab world
toppled, page 56. Why coups
45 Afirst for women
tend to make a bad situation
46 South African energy
worse,page 54
•See the blight: crops and
climate changeMore needs to
be done to protect crops from BagehotEverybody
the havoc that warmer suffers when controversial
temperatures might wreak, even thinkers are driven from
in temperate regions: leader, public life, page 53
page 14. Understanding how
pathogens and climate change
interact is vital. But it remains
obscure, page 69
1 Contents continues overleaf
6 Contents The EconomistApril20th2019
Europe Finance & economics
47 Notre Dame 63 Goldman Sachs
48 Spain’s tricky election 64 American banks’ earnings
49 Finland’s populists 65 ButtonwoodBond
maturities
50 CharlemagneDiplomatic
baggage 66 China’s GDP
66 Sales tax in Japan
67 Measuring slowbalisation
Britain
68 Free exchange
51 The race to succeed
Populationandgrowth
Theresa May
52 Julian Assange is arrested
Science & technology
53 BagehotSir Roger Scruton
69 Crop disease and climate
and the public square
70 Remembering disasters
71 Tapir hygiene
International 71 Prospecting for minerals
54 Coups: what next? 72 The joys of muck diving
56 Coups: who’s next?
Books & arts
73 Leonardo’s genius
74 An Uzbek film-maker
75 Amaster Soviet spy
Business 76 Murder most sensational
57 Big carmakers go electric 76 Ian McEwan’s new novel
58 BartlebyDiscrimination
59 Shale’s Permian explosion Economic & financial indicators
60 Online vocational training 80 Statisticson42economies
60 Apple and Qualcomm
61 Bankruptcy in India Graphic detail
62 SchumpeterAramco 81 China’spropagandastrategyonFacebook
looks east
Obituary
82 Sydney Brenner, molecular biologist
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8 The world this week Politics The EconomistApril20th2019
The Finns Party, an anti-im- ofcancellingBrexit,received group that has displaced more
migrant outfit, won 17% of the approvalfromtheElectoral than 2m people in
vote in Finland’selection. Commissiontoformaparty. neighbouring Nigeria.
Other parties do not want to
work with it. The winning
Social Democrats will try to The strongman gets stronger No escape
form a government without it. Egypt’s parliament passed Spain arrested Hugo Carvajal, a
constitutional amendments former head of Venezuela’s
Britain pondered what to do that would allow President military intelligence service,
with Julian Assange, a co- Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to rule after America asked for his
founder of WikiLeaks. America until 2030. Mr Sisi, a former extradition. He had defected
wants him extradited for con- general, was re-elected in 2018 and called on the army to stop
Notre Dame, a medieval spiring to help a soldier hack a with 98% of the vote. Other supporting Venezuela’s dic-
cathedral immortalised by classified computer network, changes would give the presi- tator, Nicolás Maduro. His
Victor Hugo, Hollywood and with the intention of pub- dent control over judges and arrest on drug-trafficking
innumerable tourist selfies, lishing military secrets. Swe- increase the army’s political charges may discourage other
caught fire. More than 400 den may also want him: a power. The amendments will bigwigs from abandoning Mr
firefighters brought the blaze woman who says he raped her now be put to a referendum. Maduro, thus impeding Ameri-
under control, but the roof is has asked prosecutors to ca’s goal of removing him.
gone, and with it the spire. The reopen the case. He also faces The African Union threatened
interior damage is extensive, jail in Britain for jumping bail. to suspend Sudan, following a The natural history museum in
but many artefacts and relics, military coup that deposed New York decided not to pro-
including a supposed part of Nigel Farage, one of the prime Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled vide the venue for a gala hon-
Jesus’s crown of thorns, were movers behind Britain’s refer- for more than three decades. ouring Brazil’spresident, Jair
saved. Emmanuel Macron, the endum on leaving the euin The augave the generals who Bolsonaro. Environmentalists,
French president, visited the 2016, launched aBrexit Party now run the country 15 days to outraged at his plan to open up
site and vowed that the to fight next month’s European hand power to civilians. Brazil’s rainforest to mining,
cathedral will be rebuilt. Two elections.Change uk, a group had objected.
French billionaires pledged a of Labour and Conservative Seven soldiers were killed in
total of €300m ($340m) defectors who are pushing for a Chadin an attack on an army The United Conservative Party
towards that effort. second referendum in the hope base by Boko Haram, a jihadist won an election in the oil- 1
The EconomistApril20th2019 Theworldthisweek 9
2producingCanadianprovince war. It was only the second vernorofMassachusetts.Mr North Korea’spromise to
ofAlberta.Theincoming veto of his presidency. Trumpraised$30mforhis relinquish nuclear weapons
premier,JasonKenney,is campaigninthefirstquarter, and long-range missiles in
expectedtoabolishtheprov- rivallingthecombinedamount exchange for security guaran-
ince’staxoncarbonemissions ofthetoptwoDemocrats. tees and aid.
andtochallengethefederal
policyofimposingacarbon Malaysiaagreed to resume
priceonprovincesthatdonot It’s that time of the year construction of a high-speed
havetheirown. In Afghanistanthe Taliban rail line after the Chinese
launched a spring offensive consortium building it cut the
against the government, which price. Malaysia’s new govern-
“A non-starter” recently began its own offen- ment had cancelled the project
Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of sive against the jihadists. This last year, saying the country
America’s House of Repre- came despite the progress in could not afford it.
sentatives, warned the British peace talks between America
government that there would Pete Buttigiegofficially and the Taliban. Some 300 people gathered at a
be “no chance whatsoever” of a launched his campaign to be monument in eastern Chinato
free-trade deal with America the Democrats’ presidential Terry Gou, the boss of Foxconn, mark the death of Hu Yaobang,
if Brexit caused any disruption candidate. Mr Buttigieg has which assembles iPhones for a liberal-minded Communist
to the two-decade-old Anglo- surprised primary watchers by Apple, said he would run for Party chief whose funeral in
Irish peace agreement. The running well against better- president in Taiwan. He is 1989 triggered the Tiananmen
peace deal depends on an open known rivals in the party’s seeking the nomination of the Square protests.
border between Northern crowded field of nominees, Kuomintang party, which is
Ireland and the Republic of quite an achievement for the friendlier to China than the Only three turtlesof the Yangzi
Ireland—something eumem- mayor of South Bend, Indiana. ruling Democratic Progressive giant softshell species are
bership conveniently supplied. Party. Foxconn has many fac- known still to be alive after the
The first challenger to Donald tories in China. death of one in China. The
Donald Trump blocked a bipar- Trump emerged for the Repub- female, aged over 90, died in
tisan resolution in Congress to lican nomination. The long- Both Donald Trump and Kim the city of Suzhou at a zoo
end American military aid to shot bid is from William Weld, Jong Un mused publicly about which still has a male softshell
Saudi Arabia in the Yemen a moderate and former go- another summit to discuss turtle aged over 100.