China regulates accountancy, law, retail and even estate agents more tightly than the average member of the OECD, a club of ...

As we published this, President Donald Trump was even mulling quasi-nationalisation. More than ever, semiconductors hold the ...

For a wave of Chinese-made electric vehicles is flooding new markets. In the past year sales of EV s have more than tripled in Turkey, where Togg, a local brand, is also popular—they now account for ...

Attempts to entice and bully tsmc to manufacture more chips outside Taiwan happen to align with the company’s thinking. Increasingly, the firm seems too large for its island home. s & p Global, a ...

Yet Intel still matters, as Mr Trump’s interest shows. The most advanced chips, vital for smartphones and AI, are now made almost entirely by TSMC. America’s tech giants depend on it. Such reliance on ...

The world’s biggest market is less central in global trade today than it once was. At the start of the century, America ...

Vladimir Putin, who met Mr Trump in Alaska on August 15th, wants Ukraine to hand over unoccupied land in the eastern Donbas ...

When J.D. Vance, America’s vice-president, visited Britain this summer, doyens of the British right recommended that Mr ...

CARRIE BRADSHAW has skipped across Manhattan in Manolo Blahniks for the last time. On August 14th “And Just Like That…” ...

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Developers, governments, startups and utilities around the world are turning former fossil-fuel power stations, and old oil and gas wells, into renewable-energy plants and testbeds for green ...

Automation is also tricky: robots are good at putting together a specific item but struggle to recognise and take apart the thousands of different devices that end up in the rubbish. A new generation ...