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Hwaseong, South Korea, past midnight. An engineer watches a defect pattern surface on her screen – the kind that, caught now, saves a week of wafers. She is locked in, fully absorbed, the way engineers get when a breakthrough is close. But she has to go home. The law says so. Yet

China may increasingly seek to use its dominance in the global electric vehicle industry as geopolitical leverage, giving Beijing greater influence over countries dependent on its technology and supply chains, according to analysts. “With China, the strategy is different. It’s to

Wall Street closes down sharply after Fed holds rates unchangedSign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inboxA trader working on July 29 at the New York Stock Exchange, as a broadcast of US Federal Reserve chairman Kevin Warsh plays in the background. PHOTO: REUTERSPub

The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond touched its highest level since 2007 during Warsh’s press conference.