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Image The steel is shipped across the Baltic Sea and then across the Atlantic to American manufacturers, which have been among the Finnish company’s eager customers.CreditCreditJuho Kuva for The New York Times SectionsSkip to contentSkip to site index When Imported Steel Makes Sense, Despite Tariffs The Finnish steel manufacturer Outokumpu ...

The New New World Why Made in China 2025 Will Succeed, Despite Trump Video The rush toward automation in China’s manufacturing center suggests Made in China 2025 will succeed, in part because the effort is bigger than Beijing.Published OnJuly 4, 2018CreditImage by Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times ...

Trump Sees End to North Korea Threat Despite Unclear Path Forward Image Documenting North Korea’s nuclear test center as it was dismantled in May.CreditKCNA, via Reuters By Peter Baker and Choe Sang-Hun June 13, 2018 WASHINGTON — President Trump declared Wednesday that North Korea is “no longer a nuclear threat” ...

DealBook Why Starbucks’s Bias Training, Despite Skepticism, Is an Important Start Image Starbucks is about to embark on one of corporate America’s most ambitious efforts to deal with implicit racial bias, by closing its doors for a four-hour afternoon training session.CreditRoger Kisby for The New York Times By Andrew Ross ...

BEIJING — No part of the world seems too small, too near or too far for China’s globe-trotting president, Xi Jinping. He has traveled to the tiny Pacific islands of Fiji, toured the neighboring nations of Central Asia and signaled his interest in Antarctica with a visit to Tasmania, off ...

LONDON — Islamic State propaganda had been found in the bag of one attacker while he was trying to board a flight in Italy. An F.B.I. informant said he had raised alarms about the second attacker two years ago. The third attacker, denied asylum in Britain, appeared to have sneaked ...

JINCHENG, China — America’s uncertain stance toward global warming under the coming administration of Donald J. Trump has given China a leading role in the fight against climate change. It has called on the United States to recognize established science and to work with other countries to reduce dependence on ...

GENEVA — The United Nations on Thursday dimmed any prospect of immediate airdrops of aid to Syrian civilians trapped by the war, despite an expired deadline imposed on Syria’s government to allow unfettered humanitarian access by land. United Nations officials said the World Food Program, its anti-hunger agency, had no ...

Viettel Group’s total overseas investment increased 9 percent to nearly US$ 1.5 billion in 2015. According to UK-based OVUM – a market-leading research and consulting firm specializing in global coverage of information technology and telecommunications industries – the global industry rate was only 2.3 percent, a fourth of Viettel’s. The ...

COBIJA, Bolivia — When Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, took office a decade ago, he vowed to put this impoverished town in the Amazon Basin on the kind of pedestal often reserved for a capital city. He filled its coffers with profits from the country’s natural gas industry. He ...