Carmakers have known for decades that battery recycling was poisoning people abroad. Nigeria’s crackdown is an effort to catalog the damage.

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The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet.

The auto giant stopped making cars at the plant in Dresden, which opened in 2001, as it faces weaker demand and steep U.S. tariffs.

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Ford Motor said the costs came from its decision to make fewer electric vehicles than it had planned and more hybrids that use both gasoline engines and batteries.

A broad measure of investment fell more than 10 percent in November, continuing a recent reversal and signaling the depth of China’s property crisis.

For the sake of global security and freedom, the world’s democracies must collaborate better.

For the sake of global security and freedom, the world’s democracies must collaborate better.

Investment in manufacturing, infrastructure and property is expected to fall this year, a remarkable turn for an economy whose growth reshaped the world.

Desperate to catch up with Chinese automakers, Ford is redesigning its fleet with a Silicon Valley-style team. Is it too late?

The tariffs will apply to goods from China and other nations. Washington has been pressuring Mexico to move away from dealing with China.

Chinese exports are flooding the developing world, and the social consequences are bound to be profound.

Chinese exports are flooding the developing world, and the social consequences are bound to be profound.

President Trump’s tariffs weren’t enough to hold back the global export flood by China, which pushed past last year’s record in just 11 months.

A trade truce between the United States and China has calmed nerves, but it won’t stop the broader movement of companies to countries like Vietnam.

The two countries agreed to suspend the fees for a year as part of their recent trade pact, but America still aims to build more commercial ships.

Neros, a company founded in 2023 by former teenage drone racers, won a coveted Army contract and is gaining popularity in the defense sector.

A leading German automotive supplier said it was again allowed to ship semiconductors that Beijing had barred for export.

Exports of cars, solar panels and batteries remain strong, but prices are falling because of factory overcapacity in China.

Drones, missiles and other crucial components of Europe’s rush to rearm itself rely on an increasingly unsteady supply of minerals from China.

Two economists on the price of playing nice with a superpower.

As he so often does, the president is pushing the wrong answer to the right question on trade policy with Beijing.

Two decades of sustained effort to build national self-reliance and minimize imports have antagonized trade partners but fortified what a senior adviser called Beijing’s “bulwark” against conflicts.

The leaders of Canada and China met for the first time in eight years to try to reset relations after years of acrimony.

Xi now sees our weakness and will try to exploit it, perhaps leaving America a diminished presence in Asia.

China has suspended export controls announced this month, but was conspicuously silent about rules imposed earlier, which are snarling global supply chains.

China’s far-reaching rules already affect manufacturers of semiconductors, cars and many other products. They will soon become much broader.

Concern is increasing throughout Southeast Asia as U.S. officials, intent on slowing China, have yet to say how they will define the origin country of imports.