The Economist

The Economist cover, November 15, 2025 Haven’t had time to read it yet — dropping the link here first. Download this issue of The Economist EPUB format TE-2025-11-15.epub

The Economist cover, November 8, 2025: Rebalancing the World The Economist has always excelled at using polished prose to gloss over savage fractures, dressing up the disintegration of the postwar free-trade architecture and superpower zero-sum warfare as a dignified “Rebalancing the World.” Peel back the magazine’s glossy rhetoric, however, and one confronts an unyielding reality: the high priests of globalization are boarding up their doors, tariff iron curtains are slamming down, and major economies are locking each other in a death grip over industrial subsidies and zero-sum geopolitical spheres.

The November 2025 issue of The Economist sketches a fractured global architecture: an escalating tech war between Washington and Beijing on one side, and defensive contraction alongside balance-sheet recession risks across major economies on the other. The Economist November 2025 cover - a deep dive into global economic trends Politics and Diplomacy: Strategic Decoupling Without Departure # US-China rivalry in semiconductors and infrastructure continues to escalate: new export controls meet supply-chain rerouting and localized component substitution. Beijing deepens bilateral ties across the Middle East and the Global South through energy and industrial infrastructure pacts. Domestic governance doubles down on preserving baseline stability amidst external containment. US-China “decoupling” is like a separation where nobody moves out: they shout about breaking up, but deep down they are still calculating chip allocations.