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Major Advances in E.V. Batteries Are Announced by Chinese Company
CATL, the world’s largest maker of batteries for electric vehicles, described breakthroughs that could make E.V.s more ...
How China and the E.U. Are Reacting to Trump’s Tariffs
Ana Swanson, who covers trade and international economics for The New York Times, talks to Jeanna Smialek, The Times’s Brussels bureau chief, and Keith Bradsher, The Times’s Beijing bureau chief, ...
U.S. Gas Exports to China Stopped After Beijing Imposed Tariffs
The United States accounted for only 3 percent of China’s natural gas imports last year. Those purchases could now dry up ...
How China Took Over the World’s Rare Earths Industry
China seized mines and built factories. Japan took note and invested in Australia. But the United States did little despite ...
China suspends exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets, NYT reports
China has suspended exports of a wide range of critical minerals and magnets as part of China’s retaliation for President ...
China Girds for Economic Stress of Trump’s Tariffs
The economy grew steadily from January through March, but U.S. tariffs pose a risk for China in the coming weeks and months.