https://blog.baifan.site/en/tags/the-economist/Recent content in The Economist on ByF (BaiFan) · Daily Deep ThinkHugo -- gohugo.ioenblog@baifan.site (ByF (BaiFan))blog@baifan.site (ByF (BaiFan))CC BY-NC 4.0Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:00:00 +0800https://blog.baifan.site/en/economist-20251115-taiwan-boom/Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:00:00 +0800blog@baifan.site (ByF (BaiFan))https://blog.baifan.site/en/economist-20251115-taiwan-boom/<figure class="my-6 flex flex-col items-center"> <img src="https://blog.baifan.site/pictures/te/economist-2025-11-15-cover.png" alt="The Economist cover, November 15, 2025" style="max-width: 500px;" class="rounded-lg shadow-md mx-auto center" loading="lazy" /> <figcaption class="mt-2 text-center text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400 italic">The Economist cover, November 15, 2025</figcaption> </figure> <p>Haven&rsquo;t had time to read it yet — dropping the link here first.</p> <hr> <p><strong>Download this issue of The Economist</strong></p> <div class="my-6 rounded-lg border-l-4 border-sky-500 bg-sky-50 dark:bg-sky-950/20 p-4 shadow-sm not-prose"> <div class="font-bold mb-2 flex items-center gap-2 text-sky-900 dark:text-sky-200"> <span>EPUB format</span> </div> <div class="prose dark:prose-invert text-neutral-800 dark:text-neutral-200 text-base leading-relaxed max-w-none"> <a href="https://blog.baifan.site/files/te/TE-2025-11-15.change" >TE-2025-11-15.epub</a> </div> </div>https://blog.baifan.site/en/economist-2025-11-world-rebalancing/Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:00:00 +0800blog@baifan.site (ByF (BaiFan))https://blog.baifan.site/en/economist-2025-11-world-rebalancing/<figure class="my-6 flex flex-col items-center"> <img src="https://blog.baifan.site/pictures/te/economist-2025-11-08-cover.png" alt="The Economist cover, November 8, 2025" style="max-width: 00px;" class="rounded-lg shadow-md mx-auto center" loading="lazy" /> <figcaption class="mt-2 text-center text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400 italic">The Economist cover, November 8, 2025: Rebalancing the World</figcaption> </figure> <p><em>The Economist</em> 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 &ldquo;Rebalancing the World.&rdquo; Peel back the magazine&rsquo;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.</p>https://blog.baifan.site/en/economist-202511-global-analysis/Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:00:00 +0800blog@baifan.site (ByF (BaiFan))https://blog.baifan.site/en/economist-202511-global-analysis/<p>The November 2025 issue of <em>The Economist</em> 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.</p> <!-- more --> <figure class="my-6 flex flex-col items-center"> <img src="https://blog.baifan.site/pictures/te/te-202511.jpg" alt="Economist Magazine November 2025 Cover" style="max-width: 800px;" class="rounded-lg shadow-md mx-auto center" loading="lazy" /> <figcaption class="mt-2 text-center text-sm text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400 italic">The Economist November 2025 cover - a deep dive into global economic trends</figcaption> </figure> <h2 class="relative group">Politics and Diplomacy: Strategic Decoupling Without Departure <div id="politics-and-diplomacy-strategic-decoupling-without-departure" class="anchor"></div> <span class="absolute top-0 w-6 transition-opacity opacity-0 -start-6 not-prose group-hover:opacity-100 select-none"> <a class="text-primary-300 dark:text-neutral-700 !no-underline" href="#politics-and-diplomacy-strategic-decoupling-without-departure" aria-label="Anchor">#</a> </span> </h2> <ul> <li>US-China rivalry in semiconductors and infrastructure continues to escalate: new export controls meet supply-chain rerouting and localized component substitution.</li> <li>Beijing deepens bilateral ties across the Middle East and the Global South through energy and industrial infrastructure pacts.</li> <li>Domestic governance doubles down on preserving baseline stability amidst external containment.</li> </ul> <blockquote><p>US-China &ldquo;decoupling&rdquo; is like a separation where nobody moves out: they shout about breaking up, but deep down they are still calculating chip allocations.</p>