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From: The Economist this week - Thursday Jul 02, 2020 06:13 pm
   
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  Our cover this week argues that Joe Biden’s instinctive caution could be what makes real change possible for America. Our election model gives Donald Trump roughly a 10% chance of winning a second term. Mr Biden is up in the polls by an average of nine points. He is doing well in battleground states like Florida, Michigan and Wisconsin. The virus has demonstrated something to a large number of persuadable voters: that Mr Trump is just not that good at being president. There is a long time until November. Even so, Mr Trump’s difficulties have made a Democratic Senate majority possible. Before covid-19 and widespread social unrest, Mr Biden’s candidacy was about restoration: the idea that he could return America and the world to the prelapsarian days of 2016. Instead he now faces a paradox, which he must not misread. By cleaving to the centre he might win big enough to get something done.

 
 
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Hong Kong
A safe harbour no more

China has imposed a draconian security law on the territory, burying the idea of one country, two systems
Leaders
 
 
 
Covid-19
The way we live now

Six months into the pandemic, the virus has still to do its worst
Leaders
 
 
 
Public finances
The debt toll

The poorest countries seem to owe less to China than thought
Finance and economics
 
 
 
Avoiding Facebook
With a little help from its friends

The social network is well placed to weather an advertising boycott
Business
 
 
 
Alternative energy
Another look in the toy box

After many false starts, hydrogen power might now be about to bear fruit
Science and technology
 
 
 
Russia
Parade’s end

Even as he wins a vote to extend his tenure as Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin’s legitimacy is draining away
Europe
 
 
 
Renaissance Dam
Showdown on the Nile

Time is running out for Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to reach a deal on Africa’s largest hydro-electric project
Middle East and Africa
 
 
  The world this week
  
     
  In France Emmanuel Macron’s party was hammered in the second round of local elections. The Greens won the mayor’s office in a number of big cities; the Socialists easily hung on to Paris. Mr Macron is now under pressure to relaunch his presidency with an extensive shuffle.
  
     
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  In another dreadful week for workers in the aviation industry, Airbus said it would cut 15,000 jobs, about a tenth of its total, because it does not expect demand for its aircraft to return to pre-covid levels until at least 2023, or possibly 2025. The announcement was lambasted in France, where the government has dispensed a huge rescue package. Aeromexico, Mexico’s biggest international airline, filed for bankruptcy protection. And easyJet, a British carrier, started a consultation on redundancies, which could see 727 pilots lose their jobs. Qantas announced 6,000 jobs cuts.
  
     
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