President Trump’s tariffs aim to bring manufacturing back to the U.S.—including iPhones. WSJ’s Joanna Stern breaks down exactly how tough it would be to build iPhones here, and how tariffs ...

The Chinese currency has lost about 0.6% since April 2, when Trump announced his reciprocal tariffs. Global gold ETFs, which store bullion for investors, registered the largest quarterly inflow in ...

The escalating tensions have also led the Chinese currency, the yuan, to touch a low last seen in 2007 against the U.S. dollar last week, and it slipped to a 19-month low against the currencies of ...

On Monday, economist Peter Schiff provided a counter-narrative to the claim that China won't sell U.S. Treasuries. What Happened: In a short post on X, Schiff challenged claims that China “won ...

Exports up better-than-expected 12.4% in March on pre-tariff rush U.S. tariffs on China reach 145%, Beijing retaliates Escalating trade row threatens China and global growth China vows to fight ...

But you could find a more intimate view in the lively work of the most revered ancient Chinese travel writer of all, Xu Xiake (pronounced “Syoo Syah-kuh”), hailed by his growing number of ...

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Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...

Currency manipulation. Many economists say China kept the value of its currency, the renminbi, artificially low in the decade after it joined the WTO by accumulating U.S. dollar reserves.

All mollusks build their own shells, whether they live in water or on land. Creatures like snails, clams, oysters and mussels use an organ called a mantle to secrete layers of calcium carbonate ...

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