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Articles in this issue: Politics Business Cartoon: America’s trouble getting out of the Iran conflict When a president stops pretending that voters count, disaster beckons Donald Trump’s Saudi deal risks nuclear proliferation Lebanon has a chance to break free of Hizbullah Should you be afraid of Elon Musk? Prediction markets need better rules Britain’s troublingly nostalgic new prime minister Could Andrey Melnichenko change Russia? Elon Musk is building a form of capitalism that Adam Smith would loathe China is gaining troubling military know-how from Russia A gold-bar scandal pits Indonesia’s army against its police Narendra Modi’s party discovers the limits of propaganda The Philippines war on drugs outlasts the Duterte presidency Japan’s popular prime minister is burning political capital fast The Chinese economic experiment that failed China’s shadowy maritime militia is worryingly active Why criticism of the Qing dynasty scares the Communist Party   Donald Trump is shifting America’s military footprint ...