The U.S. government’s efforts to stop Russia and China from using American equipment to boost their defense sectors have resulted in tough rules — but leaky enforcement. As a result, American-made tools keep turning up in Russian missile factories and in Huawei’s supply chain. With war in Europe and China threatening its neighbors, that’s just not good enough.
Read MoreThe country is joining the European mainstream, with its political class struggling to counter rising far-right support and an economy that is no longer best-in-class.
Read MoreThousands of workers at China’s state-owned enterprises are being paid their wages in the digital yuan – a digital currency which is issued by China’s central bank to help combat fraud.
Read MoreThe first lithography tools were fairly simple, but the technologies that produce today’s chips are among humankind’s most complex inventions.
Read MoreThe souring of relations between European capitals and Beijing represents a strategic opportunity for the U.S.
Read MoreThe EU’s history is closely intertwined with the fate of its automobile industry. As China’s electric vehicles take the continent by storm, Paris has put forward a balanced proposition for how to save European producers. But to really make it work, Berlin and others have to follow.
Read More“We rarely think about chips, yet they’ve created the modern world,” writes the historian Chris Miller.
Read MoreThe Chinese government believes that unlocking digital value is the key to furthering its technological, economic and geopolitical objectives. While digital payments may not be as tangible as semiconductors nor as controversial as next-generation telecommunications, they play a critical role in shaping international relations, trade, currency dynamics, and economic growth.
Read MoreThe complex new rules are headed for a collision with U.S. tax treaties and low-tax nations.
Read MoreThis weekend France and Germany celebrate a treaty that was born in discord and remains the manifestation of their continued disagreements. Yet celebrating the Franco-German myth remains an imperative of realpolitik.
Read MoreGermany is in the middle of a vibrant debate about its future foreign policy and to what extent to help Urkaine. In France, Macron decides alone. Strangely, two different political cultures produce the same policy results.
Read MoreGreenmantle’s Chris Miller has won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award for Chip War, his timely and important account of the global battle for semiconductor supremacy, in one of the tightest contests since the prize started in 2005.
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