America’s Gas Bonanza Brings Biden New Political Dilemmas

[ad_1] The U.S. has become the world’s top exporter of liquefied natural gas. President Biden is finding that this superpower status comes with its own set of headaches.  In the…

Nvidia’s New China Pickle: Customers Don’t Want Its Downgraded Chips

[ad_1] Updated Jan. 7, 2024 12:01 am ET SINGAPORE—After U.S. regulations barred Nvidia from selling its high-performance artificial-intelligence chips to China in October, the company’s engineers quickly designed a new…

China’s EV Champion BYD Will Take on the World in 2024

[ad_1] China’s electric-vehicle maker BYD will be on top of the world this year, with overseas markets its main battleground. At home, it already surpassed Volkswagen as the most popular…

Netherlands Blocks ASML Exports of Some Chip-Making Equipment to China

[ad_1] Netherlands has blocked chip-equipment manufacturer ASML’s exports to China of some lithography systems, which are essential to making advanced microprocessors, in a partial license revocation following U.S. export restrictions.…

Japanese Investors Return to Overseas Real Estate With Lessons Learned From the 1990s

[ad_1] TOKYO—Big Japanese investors stumbled disastrously into the U.S. commercial real-estate market in the late 1980s, when they bought high-profile properties like New York’s Rockefeller Center not long before the…

Volkswagen’s Elusive Quest to Make an EV for the Masses

[ad_1] Updated Dec. 31, 2023 12:19 am ET BERLIN—Almost a decade ago, Volkswagen set out on an expensive quest to dominate the new world of software-defined cars and build the…

China’s Yuan Is Quietly Gaining Ground

[ad_1] Chinese assets have had a terrible year—but China’s currency is gaining ground as an international payments option. The yuan’s status as a global currency still faces a huge obstacle…

LG Electronics Unveils Restructuring to Boost Global Competitiveness

[ad_1] Nov. 24, 2023 12:42 am ET LG Electronics will set up a new sales and marketing entity to oversee international business, part of a series of restructuring moves aimed…

Alibaba Scraps Cloud Unit Spinoff, Citing Washington’s Chip Curbs

[ad_1] Updated Nov. 16, 2023 8:41 pm ET SINGAPORE—Washington’s latest curbs on the export of high-performance chips to China are beginning to bite. Alibaba on Thursday said it had scrapped…

China Is Making Too Much Stuff—and Other Countries Are Worried

[ad_1] Listen to article (1 minute) Some Chinese factories, saddled with overcapacity in a struggling economy, are trying to export their way out of trouble and stoking new trade tensions…