| U.S.-China Showdown Over Big Data to Leave Decades-Long Impact
TikTok, WeChat and Huawei are just the beginning. What comes next has the potential to reshape the global economy for decades to come. Trump's moves to prevent some of China's biggest companies from accessing the private data of Americans are part of a broader effort to create "clean networks" the Communist Party can't touch. Trump's 2016 China-Bashing Playbook Risks Flopping Against Biden
Trump is reviving his 2016 campaign playbook on attacking China, but running as the incumbent means defending a record of only limited success in rewriting the economic relationship. Still, as Jenny Leonard explains, the president has continued to try to paint Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's record as too cozy to Beijing.  Trump's bid to focus his re-election campaign on anything but the pandemic hit another setback, as the president acknowledged publicly downplaying the threat of the coronavirus in February even though he knew it was dangerous.
Brexit Talks Fray, Increasing Chances of Chaotic U.K.-EU Split
The U.K. and the European Union are heading for a split without a new trade deal. Johnson's government rebuffed an EU request to scrap his plan to re-write the Brexit divorce accord even after the bloc gave him a three-week ultimatum to do so and threatened legal action, Alex Morales, Nikos Chrysoloras, and Joe Mayes write. Johnson Pledges Millions of Covid Tests But U.K. Labs Can't Cope
Britain's battle with coronavirus is at a critical moment, but as Emily Ashton explains, virus testing is in trouble again as winter looms. The government says demand is simply outstripping availability — others blame poor management and staffing shortages.
After Push to Empower Women, Japan Can't Find One to Be Premier
Almost eight years after Shinzo Abe pledged to use the powers of the prime minister's office to help Japanese women "shine," he's leaving without a single female candidate to replace him, Isabel Reynolds reports. The three contenders to replace Abe are all men, and none are known as strong proponents of gender equality. Singapore's Poorest Stay in Lockdown While Others Move Freely
With restaurants and malls bustling, pre-pandemic life is slowly returning for people in Singapore — except for the more than 300,000 migrant workers who make up much of the city's low-wage workforce. Since April, these workers have been confined to their residences with limited exceptions for work, Philip J. Heijmans writes.
It's a Race Against Heat, and Humanity Is Losing
Add this to the long list of 2020 oddities: Greenhouse gas emissions are projected to experience their steepest drop in modern history while the world remains on track to mark its second-hottest, if not hottest, year as Laura Millan Lombrana, Akshat Rathi and Hayley Warren report.  Turkish naval ships escort a research vessel in the eastern Mediterranean Sea on Sept. 6. Source: Turkish Navy Turkey's Muscle Flexing in Mediterranean Isn't Just About Gas
Sailing through the Bosporus Strait that divides Europe from Asia last year, a Turkish fleet saluted the tomb of 16th century pirate and admiral Barbarossa, reviving a tradition that harks back to when the Ottoman Empire ruled the Mediterranean Sea. As Marc Champion explains, while Turkey rebuilds its maritime might and contests disputed waters, it is once again in conflict with historic adversaries to the West.
Borrowing Costs Make Africa's Stars Victims of the Neighborhood
Macky Sall had a bone to pick with creditors. Sitting before the head of the International Monetary Fund, investors and diplomats during a conference on African debt, the Senegalese president complained that Western prejudice keeps borrowing costs unfairly high on his continent. There's no doubt other African governments feel the same, Alonso Soto reports. How AMLO's Crown Jewel Became World's Deadliest Covid Company
More employees have died at Pemex than at any other company in the world — yet Mexico's president wants to keep the oil producer pumping, no matter what. Amy Stillman writes that Pemex is a key source of government revenue, and a decline in production could have consequences for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. India's Health 'Time Bomb' Keeps Ticking, and It's Not Covid-19
As India's surging coronavirus epidemic becomes an increasing worry for the globe, another health disaster is silently unfolding. The world's strictest lockdown closed its giant tuberculosis program for almost three months, more than a million children missed crucial immunizations and hospital births declined sharply, Ragini Saxena explains. And finally ... The world is losing its mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish, and with them, the security of ecosystems that have supported humanity since it first emerged. As Eric Roston writes, a new report suggests continued human abuse of the planet may trigger the collapse of the very natural systems and resources that allowed global civilization and modern societies to persist in the first place.  A polar bear on the pack ice north of Svalbard, Norway. The report's authors did not mince words — they say the evidence for biodiversity destruction is "unequivocal." Photographer: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket | 
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