President Trump is likely to have “already taken the decision to hit” Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility, according to Sir Niall Ferguson, the Milbank family senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard.Ferguson told The Times CEO Summit: “My Israeli…
PHNOM PENH — Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to visit Cambodia this month as part of a trip to Southeast Asia, according to three sources, for a visit that will cast a light on China’s response to the U.S. government’s massive cuts to its aid program, as well as new and pending promises from…
TAIPEI — The latest U.S. export controls on China’s chip sector are causing more disruption than the industry expected, as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. takes an extremely cautious approach to ensure compliance, sources briefed on the matter said. TSMC, the world’s top contract chipmaker, has been informing Chinese customers that use the company’s 16-nanometer or…
TOKYO –The Japanese yen rose against the U.S. dollar on Friday after the central bank lifted interest rates as expected at its two-day meeting and maintained a balanced tone on its future decisions, as U.S. trade partners await clarity on policy under a new president. The Bank of Japan “is trying to be relatively cautious and…