The world this week

KAL’s cartoon

Illustration: KAL

Our regular illustrator, KAL, is away this week. We have chosen to revisit this cartoon from 2012.

Dig deeper into the subject of this week’s cartoon:

If a China and America war went nuclear, who would win?
The cruise that will get you chased by the Chinese coastguard
Vietnam’s new ruler: hardman, capitalist, hedonist

KAL’s cartoon appears weekly in The Economist. You can see last week’s here.

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