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Back to Search179. Why Taiwan restricts high-tech investment into China
For decades, Taiwan has limited how and how much its tech firms like TSMC could invest in mainland China. Are there lessons for the United States?
3 years, 1 month ago
178. Why sanctions to stop Russian gas pipelines backfired
US sanctions on European allies repeatedly failed to stop Russian gas pipelines, harmed transatlantic ties, and undermined US policy.
3 years, 1 month ago
177. How the Rana Plaza factory collapse changed global supply chains
New research examines how NGOs, consumers, and major retailers responded to the outrage following the 2013 tragedy in Bangladesh.
3 years, 1 month ago
176. The Cold War scandal over export controls
The leakage of submarine technology to the Soviet Union in the 1980s has lessons for the limits to and coordination of allies' export controls today.
3 years, 2 months ago
175. The dreaded WTO ruling on Trump's national security tariffs
The WTO ruled against Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs, dragging the organization into thorny national security issues.
3 years, 2 months ago
174. The incredible rise of Chinese fintech
New super apps and other internet-enabled technologies have transformed China's financial sector, with global implications, says Martin Chorzempa.
3 years, 3 months ago
173: Did Britain's slave trade help drive its industrial revolution?
New research reveals how Britain's economy benefited from the brutal transatlantic slave trade and its slave holdings.
3 years, 3 months ago
172. Peru's "China shock": Surprising turns and the women left behind
A flood of imports from China had an unexpected impact on the Peruvian clothing industry while discouraging Peru's women workers.
3 years, 4 months ago
171. What makes a supply chain resilient
New research examining India's pandemic lockdowns sheds light on which supply chains stuck together, which broke apart, and why.
3 years, 4 months ago
170. National security, semiconductors, and the US move to cut off China
The history behind the sudden US ban on certain exports to China, and how the policy affects the global semiconductor supply chain.
3 years, 4 months ago