 
 
							World's top chipmaker says sales are roaring. The group has ramped up outlays on new factories, but tariffs on chips and Taiwan cloud its outlook
 
 
							Ministers have vowed to promote high-quality development of the EV sector and comprehensive measures to cool the industry's "irrational competition"
 
 
							China's insistence that it must continue building coal power plants at record pace is seen as a key reason why Asia is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average
 
 
							Trump ramped up warnings on the weekend, saying he would put a 30% levy on most imports from the EU and Mexico next month, after threats to Japan, South Korea and India
 
 
							A rapid increase in global warming and unprecedented climate change threatens the availability of water to chipmakers' copper suppliers, PwC says
 
 
							Tokyo and Seoul said on Tuesday they will try to negotiate with the US to soften the impact of higher tariffs, but many other Asian nations face greater challenges
 
 
							Korean tech giant, which faces technical, geopolitical and governmental challenges, is expected to announce a significant fall in second profit on Tuesday
 
 
							LONG READ: After copying foreign cars, China’s carmakers scrutinized their engineering and devised faster paths to product launches. Now their production leads the world.
 
 
							Beijing plans to assess the deal, which will see the US put a 20% tariff on most Vietnamese exports – but a 40% levy on goods trans-shipped from third countries, such as China
 
 
							"Japan is different from other countries as we are the largest investor in the United States, creating jobs," Ishiba said in a debate on Wednesday. But the US looks more likely to do a deal with India before July 9
 
 
							The Ministry of Commerce in Beijing said on Saturday it opposes any country signing tariff deals with the US that erode China's interests
 
 
							US officials – concerned about the trade deal with China – are considering revoking authorizations granted in recent years to chipmakers Samsung, SK Hynix and TSMC, making it difficult to get US goods and tech for their plants in China