The Economist - 2025 cover

China down?
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The buildings refer to the big real estate problem China have I guess.

The following image is the symbol of a far-right secret organization, although (for the time being) I don't know what relation it has with the sun above.​

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The organization is known as El Yunque (the Anvil)
The National Organization El Yunque is the name of a secret paramilitary, ultra-Catholic and extreme right-wing organization of Mexican origin of national and international scope, which declares as its purpose to "defend the Catholic religion and fight against the forces of Satan" and to establish "the kingdom of Christ on earth. Wikipedia
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El Yunque was born in 1975 in Mexico and is financed by businessmen who oppose state control of the country's economic life. This organization came to public light with documents leaked by Wikileaks where it was revealed that El Yunque had expanded first to Spain with the anti-communist Catholic youth and then to 50 countries, now forming a vast subversive network aimed at penetrating and destabilizing countries and/or overthrowing governments considered "enemies" by the United States.

El Yunque is rooted in the private universities. In Mexico, at the Universidad Panamericana and the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), from where it obtains elements for its cadres who are later encouraged to study in the United States and return to Mexico to occupy important positions in the public administration (Basically an indoctrination). This until the arrival of President Lopez Obrador and his socialist policies (known as Fourth Transformation)

Today, with the loss of political power in Mexico the ultra-right has become an enemy of the Fourth Transformation Regime now led by Claudia Sheinbaum. For this reason they have approached Trump in the hope that he will help them overthrow what they consider a communist and satanic regime. Mexican actor Eduardo Verastegui (known in the US for the movie Sound of Freedom) has served as a liaison with the next tenant of the White House.


Next to the ultra-right symbol we see the American continent. Possibly the sun represents the dawn of a new right-wing drive to regain the power it has lost in Latin America and with the help of Trump.

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The symbol of El Yunque is also one that represents conservatism. That is why Ursula Von Der Leyen appears.​
Von der Leyen’s re-election consolidates Europe’s shift to the right

The German technocrat’s second term at the helm of the European Commission will focus on business, conservative values and external security threats.

After an intense round of negotiations with parliamentary groups across the political spectrum, German conservative politician Ursula von der Leyen secured a second term as president of the European Commission.

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Technocrat is a word I've heard frequently lately, mainly with Elon Musk's rise to a position of power. See Musk on the cover? No, he is part of the power that rocks the cradle, one of the powers behind the throne in the Trump presidency, yet he is represented by a green or electric car.
 
There may well be an acceleration of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, with the use of nuclear missiles and radioactive fallout over Europe (see the yellow circles on the cover).
Biden has already authorized the use of long-range missiles on Russian territory, which the Ukrainian government was quick to use.
Putin, for his part, is warning the world that the use of nuclear weapons is an option. It could be a dangerous spiral for everyone.
 

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It's hideous, very crude, not refined at all, the images are ugly, the colors are dull. What a horror. Then all these images on top of each other remind me of the Chinese game of Mahjong, because there are other images underneath. We should see what they represent… to understand the real message, if message is.
 
Interesting that Putin doesn't figure anywhere in the image, or even a recognizable reference to Russia. Wonder what that's about? Unless the message is that it is subordinate to China. and doesn't merit a nod. What's with Jane Austen??

There are some lines of scholarship focusing on the politics she would have been surrounded with, being only a couple of decades after the French Revolution, and writing during the Napoleonic wars. Some close readers have said she walked a fine line in her stories in being socially acceptable, yet slipping in political commentary. Not sure how that meshes with the Economist cover. From a reddit post:

We must remember that in the shadow of the French Revolution, the Regency era was a rather repressive era politically and that writers were often scrutinized for adhering to appropriate ideas. Expressing radical ideas was a problem in those times. There is a very interesting book called Jane Austen the Secret Radical, by Helen Kelly that takes a revisionist view of Austen (at least revisionist in the era of Butler). While I find some of her positions hard to swallow, she makes a good case that Jane was very political and that there are numerous clues in all of the books. Of course, that raises the question of what is political? Clearly Jane Austen had issues with a lot of the status quo of Regency society - primogeniture, entails, male domination; her heroines are intelligent, capable women of character. She mocks and chastises British nobility, the class system, and even the Church of England. But she does so in a deeply personal way as each of those impact the story she is telling.
 
Interesting that Putin doesn't figure anywhere in the image, or even a recognizable reference to Russia. Wonder what that's about? Unless the message is that it is subordinate to China. and doesn't merit a nod.

They used a poor picture of him, but Putin is located in the bottom right, to the right of the atomic symbol.
 

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