Emmanuel Macron needed one sentence on Sunday night to move the cause of France’s riots some 5,000 kilometres east. Protesters were angry about living costs and fuel, he told the nation, and both flowed from a war in the Persian … Read more

Renault’s shares jumped 6.1 percent on Wednesday and Volkswagen’s 4.6 percent after a Bloomberg report that Brussels was preparing to cap imports of Chinese hybrids. Investors were pricing in protection. Two days later, it had not arrived. The joint results … Read more

For years, relations between Washington and Beijing seemed stuck on an escalation treadmill. Every quarter brought new semiconductor restrictions, naval jockeying in the South China Sea or retaliatory tariffs, locking the world’s two preeminent powers in an apparently irreversible downward spiral. Observers came to view every exchange as a prelude to confrontation, with diplomacy treated […]

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