Ford-CATL deal exposes trade and tech war limits

China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co (CATL) will join hands with Ford Motor Co to produce lithium-iron-phosphate batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) made in Michigan, a move the Fujian-based battery maker hopes will gain and maintain market share in the fast-growing industry. Ford, the second largest EV maker in the United States after Tesla, said on […]Continue Reading

Myanmar election ploy threatens to split ASEAN and West

Myanmar’s military junta reckons it has a way out of the turmoil and war it unleashed after staging a democracy-killing coup two years ago. Despite sparking a nationwide uprising that has left an estimated 2,900 civilians dead and hundreds of thousands displaced, the junta plans to hold elections this year in a cynical ploy to […]Continue Reading

A Russia-backed coup in Moldova

Moldova has been sliding into yet another crisis following the resignation of its prime minister, Natalia Gavrilita, and fears that Russia was plotting a coup to overthrow the pro-western president, Maia Sandu. At a press conference in the Moldovan capital Chisinau on February 13, Sandu confirmed earlier accusations made by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, […]Continue Reading