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China holds a near-monopoly on rare earth magnets, a crucial component in EV motors. In April it added some of the most ...
Every Friday, we recap highlights of the news from China. This week, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping held a much-anticipated ...
Discovered in a Tokyo warehouse, a long-lost ballad by Taiwanese pop star Teresa Teng rekindles memories of an icon whose ...
China’s contradictions may be its greatest strength — and weakness. A look inside the civilization attempting something ...
The greatest US vulnerability to China’s rare earth dominance is a political and economic system that slows development ...
If you’re thinking the Democrats’ job now is to come up with some new policies that appeal to the working class, you are ...
ET: After this piece was published, Trump announced that he plans to block Harvard’s international students from entering the United States. The original story below was published on May 29. The ...
Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong pushed for the closure of Chinese universities, seeing higher education as little more than a ...
Ever since Deng Xiaoping came to power in 1978, it became increasingly clear to China that its progress depended on raising ...
University students occupied this symbolically important site in the spring of 1989. Their calls for freedoms divided the ...