The United States has spent the past five years pushing to reduce its reliance on China for computer chips, solar panels and various consumer imports amid growing concern over Beijing’s […]
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Back to news homeU.S. and China Agree to Broaden Talks in Bid to Ease Tensions
The United States and China agreed on Monday to hold regular conversations about commercial issues and restrictions on access to advanced technology, the latest step this summer toward reducing tensions […]
How China Made Its Housing Crisis Worse
In China the pension akin to Social Security in the United States pays about $410 a month to seniors who live in cities, and only $25 a month in the […]
How Geopolitics Is Complicating the Move to Clean Energy
He is known as the Minister for Everything. From the government offices of Indonesia’s capital to dusty mines on remote islands, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan commands authority as the nation’s essential […]
China’s Nickel Plants in Indonesia Created Needed Jobs, Plus Pollution
For most of his 57 years on the island of Sulawesi, Jamal was accustomed to scarcity, modest expectations and a grim shortage of jobs. People mined sand, caught fish and […]
Sweden Is Not Staying Neutral in Russia’s Information War
Facing a tsunami of disinformation about the treatment of Muslims that has in recent months fueled protests from Stockholm to Baghdad, Sweden decided it needed to fight back.It turned to […]
Deflation Becomes a Threat to China’s Economy
The United States has spent much of the past 18 months struggling to control inflation. China is experiencing the opposite problem: People and businesses are not spending, pushing the economy […]
Taiwan Cuisine and What it Says About Taiwanese Identity
Taiwan is a self-ruling island of 24 million people that is officially known as the Republic of China. Only about a dozen countries recognize it as a nation because China […]
TSMC Chairman Mark Liu Says Company Will Keep Its Roots in Taiwan
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which is manufacturing the world’s most advanced microchips, conducts business on the island of Taiwan, dead center in one of the most geopolitically volatile places on […]
The Chip Titan Whose Life’s Work Is at the Center of a Tech Cold War
In a wood-paneled office overlooking Taipei and the jungle-covered mountains that surround the Taiwanese capital, Morris Chang recently pulled out an old book stamped with technicolor patterns.It was titled “Introduction […]