The European Commission announced on Saturday that Chinese authorities had confirmed a partial resumption of Nexperia chip exports, easing a supply blockage that had raised alarms among carmakers. The dispute began in September when the Dutch government effectively took control of Nexperia, a company based in the Netherlands whose parent firm is China’s Wingtech. In […]

In a move that signals a fragile de-escalation in the burgeoning “tech war” between the world’s two largest economies, Beijing has announced a strategic suspension of its ban on the export of several critical materials to the United States. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) confirmed on Sunday that restrictions on gallium, germanium, and antimony—minerals […]

Ukraine scrambled on Sunday to restore electricity and heating after Russian attacks on energy infrastructure reduced the country’s power generation capacity to “zero”. Moscow, which has intensified strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure in recent months, launched hundreds of drones overnight into Saturday targeting energy facilities across the country. The attacks disrupted electricity, heat, and water supplies […]