A look at a low-end smartphone maker that is growing into a major contractor for Apple.
Wingtech Technology is taking flight. The once little-known Chinese designer of low-end smartphones has become a major contractor for Apple and aspiring semiconductor producer — and the subject of international controversy over its acquisition of U.K.-based chipmaker Newport Wafer Fab.
For Wingtech, that deal is just one of several savvy investments that it’s made in the last five years, as the company seeks to muscle its way into China’s burgeoning chips industry. This week, The Wi
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Washington’s $370 billion Inflation Reduction Act was seen as a generational opportunity for miners in the U.S. as well as mineral rich trading partners. But almost two years later, the North American mining industry is in crisis and no closer to chipping away at China's dominance. What went wrong?
The academic explains why we need to look beyond the actions of the Chinese government to understand how and why China is shaping countries in the region.
A podcast about how the two nations, once friends, are now foes.
Hear why things are so complicated now. Host Jane Perlez, former New York Times Beijing bureau chief, talks with diplomats, spies, cultural superstars like Yo Yo Ma, and more to understand why the dangers are so high, and why relations went awry.