The World Ahead is The Economist’s future-gazing annual publication, edited by Tom. This edition will be the 38th, published ahead of a fascinating year in prospect. As countries w...
It is again time for our special end-of-year event, The World Ahead 2024. For the last two years, deputy editor of The Economist Tom Standage has joined us virtually to share his "...
China's rise from an agrarian rural economy to a global superpower in a matter of decades has been nothing if not remarkable. Amid the current seemingly ceaseless geopolitical tens...
Last year it was the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who decisively shifted talk of "decoupling" with China to "de-risking." This seemed a more cogent expres...
Already in 2019, the ten members states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), became South Korea’s second biggest trading partner by volume and third largest desti...