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The rise of the bossy state
Editorial
The Economist
Governments everywhere, emboldened by pandemic policy “experiments” and voter concerns over huge issues such as inequality and climate change, are becoming increasingly “bossy”, says The Economist. US president Joe Biden is pursuing “soft protectionism”; China has its “common prosperity” crackdown and the EU is embracing “strategic autonomy”. “This opening of the interventionist mind”, often on the grounds of security and self-sufficiency (think energy and tech; vaccines and minerals in the future), “is coalescing
