US president-elect Donald Trump is expected to broaden usage of export-control tools including the foreign direct-product rule against China, possibly generating more friction with American allies, economic analysts warned on Thursday. The incoming Trump administration may want a “much broader decoupling” with China and is “prepared to bear costs” associated with such an act, including…
BEIRUT — Insurgents breached Syria’s second-largest city, Aleppo, after blowing up two car bombs Friday and clashed with government forces on the city’s western edge, according to a Syria war monitor and fighters. Residents were fleeing neighborhoods on the city’s edge because of missiles and gunfire, according to witnesses in Aleppo. The insurgents’ advance on Aleppo…
On November 9, a parish priest was stabbed with a knife as he presided over mass at a Catholic church in Singapore. While the priest survived, and the attacker was subdued at the scene and subsequently handed over to the police, the vicious act shocked the city state, which is unaccustomed to such high-profile acts…
TAIPEI — The U.S. is stepping up efforts in Taiwan and elsewhere in Asia to ensure American export controls on Huawei and other blacklisted Chinese companies are enforced. As part of those efforts, the U.S. stationed a regional export control officer in Taiwan for the first time last year to help ensure that companies there,…