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...All three senators are from states where the United Steelworkers union has a large presence....
...Huawei said it had participated in more than 30 programmes within the EU’s flagship R&D framework since 2007....
...“It is as though America fell asleep and suddenly awoke in Leonid Brezhnev’s Soviet Union,” I write....
...“If there is a sense the European market is more complex, of course investors will seek to locate in the US or Asia Pacific region....
...Unions say they are hopeful of an amicable resolution, but a rally is planned for April 17....
...The agency is believed to have received CIA training when its work was focused mainly on China, analysts said, and to have co-operated with the KGB, the Soviet Union’s feared security agency, during the...
...Riester said the company’s local R&D department — made up of Chinese staff — had gained an edge over the German headquarters in the field of electric vehicles, where China is now the world’s leading producer...
...of the economy has dropped under Modi to less than 0.7 per cent of GDP, a lower rate than that of any other Brics country and far below the roughly 5 per cent of GDP spent by some of the world’s biggest R&...
...So how are we supposed to think about India’s capabilities as a spacefaring nation, amid the hype of the US vs. China space race?...
...And they come as another hurricane bears down on California and Mexico, threatening catastrophic flooding along the Pacific coast....
...However, when we returned to Japan a few years later, our plane flew over the Soviet Union as tensions were easing....
...Attempts by India and Israel to repeat the state-funded landing successes of the US, the former Soviet Union and China have ended in failure....
...gideon.rachman@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Revanchist China fuels Indo-Pacific rearming / From Daniel R DePetris, Fellow, Defense Priorities (a Washington-based think-tank), New Rochelle...
...All the while Washington is busy working away at new constellations of regional alliances, including the trilateral Aukus defence pact and the Quad grouping of Indo-Pacific powers....
...In the decade from 2007 to 2017, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen and BMW set up just five R&D centres in China. But in the four years since 2018, they have opened 11....
...US railroad Union Pacific on Sunday said it would replace its chief executive Lance Fritz this year. Investcorp is opening an office in Tokyo....
...But she argued the rise in tensions between Washington and Beijing over Taiwan and a US pivot to the Asia-Pacific region meant “we are called on to do more than before for Europe”....
...We should aim to at least double R&D as a share of GDP (public and private funding together)....
...US technology R&D company InterDigital and EU research institutes such as the Fraunhofer network in Germany, which also license new technologies, have also suffered....
...Unions continue to threaten industrial action over pay. Many hope Tata can revive the airline’s lost glamour....
...Freeman said he was “reaching out to science allies” outside the EU including Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region....
...“Small companies see this as a R&D expense. They say ‘we are going to get a return on this’. Small and mid-cap have had a tremendous performance in backtesting....
...With rather unfortunate timing, the EU is announcing its own Indo-Pacific strategy later today....
...The UK’s pre-Covid R&D funding in 2019 amounted to 5 per cent of annual revenues, according to trade body ADS, vs 11 per cent in France and 8 per cent in Germany....
...Recommended reading In that vein, my column this week raises concerns about the accelerating Indo-Pacific arms race between China and the US and its allies....
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