How Chinese money is funding Mexican drug cartels

2025-11-26

“They should be scared.” John Bolton, the US President’s former national security adviser, says Donald Trump would sell out Taiwan for a trade deal with China.

2025-11-21

Nicolas Pelham, our Middle East correspondent, and Adam Roberts, our digital editor, are just back from a rare reporting trip to Tehran. They join our top editors in the studio to discuss the future of the Islamic Republic. After 46 years of theocracy and a brief but bruising 12-day-war, where does power now lie? And with the prospects of a succession crisis, has Iran been permanently weakened—or is it storing up trouble?

00:00 – Has Iran’s defence strategy failed?
01:09 – Who could be the next supreme leader?
03:51 – Can the regime survive for another five years?
04:59 – How Iranian society is changing
06:21 – What could prevent the opening of Iranian society

Watch the full show: https://econ.st/4r9mmzX

An interview with Iran’s foreign minister: https://econ.st/43HWDEL

2025-10-15

Looking for your next book to read this autumn? Rachel Lloyd, our deputy culture editor, shares five of our favourite novels that have been published recently. To see the rest of our top picks, click the link: https://econ.st/4q8uwrG

2025-10-10

As celebrations continue over the ceasefire in Gaza, a number of crucial questions remain: will Hamas give up its weapons? How will the transitional authority work? And what does this mean on the ground for Gazans? The Economist’s editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, sat down with the paper’s experts to discuss the merits and pitfalls of Trump’s plan.

Watch the full discussion here: https://econ.st/4obWt04

00:00 – Will Hamas give up its weapons?
02:06 – The transitional authority
05:10 – How is this different to the Oslo Accords?
07:58 – Will President Trump stick to the deal?
08:40 – How quickly can conditions improve on the ground?

Is this a new beginning for the Middle East? https://econ.st/3Wk1eZL
Israel and Hamas agree to the first phase of Donald Trump’s peace plan:

2025-08-19

Despite Donald Trump’s optimism, a peace deal in Ukraine still remains unlikely. Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, explains why.

2025-08-11

Amid mounting evidence of war crimes, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has announced a new offensive on Gaza City. Our foreign editor looks at who could stop him.

2025-08-06

Donald Trump announced Swiss exports to America will soon face tariffs of 39%, which came as a shock to Switzerland

2025-06-20

Can Vietnam reinvent its stalling economic model? Mike Bird and Ethan Wu, co-hosts of The Economist’s Money Talks podcast, discuss the country’s new leadership and the growth challenges it faces

00:00 – Vietnam’s economic success
02:26 – Why tariffs could dismantle Vietnam’s export economy
05:01 – Vietnam’s model is similar to Singapore
06:50 – Why its harder to climb the development ladder now

Listen to the rest of the episode: https://econ.st/3SMLPzk
Vietnam’s economy is booming, but its new leader is worried: https://econ.st/4lj8bEM
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