The World Today

June & July 2021: China’s 100 years of communism

Yu Jie outlines the contradictions Beijing must resolve if it is to achieve its goal of stability and prosperity

The managing director for EMEEA at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation tells Roxanne Escobales of the battle to roll out the Covid vaccine and why a renewed focus on supporting women is needed

Chinese cultural revolution poster from 1972

Sexism is still holding women back in the communist regime, writes Shen Lu

Chinese cultural revolution poster about the Red Army

Ian Williams on the threat to privacy as China’s virus ‘traffic light’ code is adapted for surveillance

Bill Hayton wonders if the democractic experiment in Myanmar has come to an end

Biden’s domestic injection aims to counter China’s growing dominance, writes Daniel Strieff

Articles

Night time picture of an empty Akihabara district in Tokyo

Kristin Wilson on why the Japanese Games have set back gender equality

Illustration showing Cuban cigars in the shape of a hashtag used to symbolise social media

Havana government fears a social media explosion is threatening its revolution, writes Pascal Fletcher

Molemo Moiloa on why African voices need to be heard in the debate over the restitution of looted artefacts

A police truck escorts DRC former governor Carly Nzanzu Kasivita

Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza says dialogue is needed to resolve the conflict blighting Africa’s Great Lakes region

Guatemalan woman receives a lunch box for the poor

President aims to curb immigration by investing in Central America, write Jonas Gamso and Farhod Yuldashev

Afghan man watches US soldiers before a home search operation

Hameed Hakimi assesses the damage the US withdrawal will wreak in Afghanistan

Digital-only

Politicians in the Central African Republic must understand local dynamics if the national drive for harmony is to succeed

The former Deputy National Security Adviser to President Obama and co-host of the Pod Save the World podcast talks to James Orr about presidential strategies and how to push back against Putin

Also in this issue

Chelsea pensioners line up in royal traditional attire

June 23, 2016: The Brexit victory was clear, but where does it leave the UK now? asks Philip Rycroft

Two Malagasy Fishermen on a fishing boat

Foreign influence affects resilience of resource management, writes Mialy Andriamahefazafy

Narendra Modi greets a crowd in Gujarat, India

Amrit Swali on a work charting the social failures of a vast democracy

Afghan female football players during a match

Shazia Haya on the fears of a return to repression

Two children assist with the bean harvest in Guyuan, China

Liang Hong tells Roxanne Escobales about the changes in Chinese rural life at the heart of her book ‘China in One Village’

Trisha de Borchgrave talks to a veteran health expert on fighting Covid in Somaliland

Infrastructure developments in china covered with a poster of Chinese propaganda

Catherine Fieschi on why the West fails to grasp Bejing’s ability to adapt

Europe draws up regulations to control AI risks

Cover illustration for the June-July 2021 issue of The World Today magazine

The World Today and the Financial Times are pleased to announce that Thomas Cowan, of Tiffin School, Kingston upon Thames, has been judged the winner of the 2021 World Today/FT student article competition.