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American submariners once talked of roaming the Pacific almost as if it were an American lake. They joked that Chinese submarines were so noisy they could be heard from California’s coast. But America’s undersea dominance is now under threat.
Elsewhere, the Iran war has pushed up petrol prices. That much is well known. But the conflict is also driving up the cost of many other goods, from aluminium to pistachio nuts. We’ve put together maps and charts showing the scale of the disruption. | 
