Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

It was a crime that gripped Sweden for 34 years.

Who gunned down the then Prime Minister, Olaf,

right in the middle of Stockholm?

Last week, prosecutors at last provided an answer,

but many Swedes are only more frustrated now.

And the pandemic is making lots of Japanese people look for love.

Dating agencies have had to get creative,

there are even drive-through introductions.

As with so many new behaviors,

the question is whether this matchmaking surge will last.

First up, though, NATO has been a keystone in international stability since it was founded in the aftermath of the Second World War.

In 1949, the realities of the Cold War led the Western European nations, the USA and Canada,

into a new military alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

It was created to stand up to an aggressive Soviet Union in Europe.

Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, though, the alliance has suffered repeated bouts of angst about its relevance.

Now it must contend with a rising China.

In a speech earlier this month, the head of NATO Jens Stoltenberg raised his concerns.

And the rise of China is fundamentally shifting the global balance of power.

Heating up the race for economic and technological supremacy, multiplying the threats to open societies and individual freedoms, and increasing

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