Millions of flights take off and land in China every year, almost all of them using planes made by Boeing and Airbus, the world’s two leading aircraft manufacturers. For years, […]
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Back to news homeEurope Frets U.S. Battery Factory Subsidies Will Hurt, Not Help
European leaders complained for years that the United States was not doing enough to fight climate change. Now that the Biden administration has devoted hundreds of billions of dollars to […]
Gasoline Prices, a Source of Pain Last Year, Have Come Way Down
Americans who fill up their cars this Memorial Day weekend will catch a break — at least compared with a year ago, when gasoline prices were soaring.The national average price […]
Australia Tries to Break Its Dependence on China for Lithium Mining
Deep in rural Western Australia, Pilbara Minerals’ vast processing plant looms above the red dirt, quivering as tons of a lithium ore slurry move through its pipes.The plant turns the […]
Airlines and F.A.A. Try to Head Off Summer Travel Meltdowns
The number of Americans who will fly this summer could eclipse the prepandemic high from 2019. That would be great news for airlines, but it could also cause a backlash […]
China Escalates U.S. Tech War With Micron Ban
When cutting foreign technology companies from Chinese supply chains, Beijing has long chosen to work obliquely or even secretly. Regulators would give executives back-room lectures, weigh them down with excessive […]
This Barber’s Clientele Includes Draymond Green and Other Celebrities
I slide into a cushy leather chair in this bustling shop next to a small flooring business. The hum of clippers echoes throughout the room.Jay Organez swoops a crisp cape […]
The Debt Ceiling Impasse Raises the Risks for ‘Risk-Free’ U.S. Bonds
It’s come to this.Because of the debt ceiling crisis, a corner of the financial markets sees the U.S. government as a riskier borrower over the next month or so than […]
‘De-Americanize’: How China Is Remaking Its Chip Business
Last October, construction plans for a hulking semiconductor factory owned by a major state-backed company in central China fell into disarray. The Biden administration had escalated the trade war over […]
Taiwan Is Running Low on a Strategic Asset: Engineers
Engineers like Royale Lee, 31, are one reason Taiwan is the world’s biggest contract producer of the microchips that power almost all electronics.When a computer virus paralyzed machinery at his […]