The Economist - 22.04.2017

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*... An election gives Theresa Maythe hope of a far largermajority. It also offers the chance of a better Brexit. FOR an event that was supposed to settle a big political question once and for all, last year’s referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union has proved spectacularly disruptive. * Strategic confusion. America stokes tensions on the Korean peninsula, then tries to lowerthem again. MUCH of the language used by Mike Pence, America’s vice-president, on his three-day trip to South Korea this week was familiar: America stands “shoulderto- shoulder” with South Korea in an alliance that is a “linchpin” for peace, he said; its commitment to its allyis “ironclad”. * The travails of a regional hegemon. China’s status among its neighbours is not keeping up with its growing power. ONCE, HAINAN WAS an alien, pestilential land, beyond the edgeofcivilisation, towhichmandarinswhohadfallen foul of the emperor were banished. Today China’s island province in the far south is being rebranded as the country’s own tropical paradise. Hainan can also be viewed as emblematic of much of what “China’s rise”, a much-used if often ill-defined phrase, actuallymeans. ...*

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