Published: 24 Feb. 2026, 17:03 Updated: 24 Feb. 2026, 17:25 Humanoid robots made by China’s EngineAI showcase their boxing capabilities during the Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas on Jan. 7, 2026. [YONHAP]   China has surpassed Korea in terms of competitiveness in most advanced manufacturing industries, except for memory chip technologies, a local

Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison said Tuesday that Panama authorities had threatened its employees with criminal prosecution if they defied orders to leave two strategic canal ports at the center of a legal battle that has embroiled Beijing and Washington. CK Hutchison said Panama’s decision to cancel key port contracts and grant temporary licenses to

Toplines The United States is reportedly hesitating over whether to fulfill its next arms sales to Taiwan out of concern that it could derail US President Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to Beijing. Suspending the sales would risk emboldening the CCP and encouraging it to pursue further concessions from the United States, however. In a phone

A Supreme Court tariff ruling has invalidated Trump’s use of an emergency statute to impose sweeping import duties on trade partners, eliminating the 10 percent “fentanyl” and reciprocal tariffs on Chinese goods. Trump has responded by implementing a 150-day 15 percent global tariff and has vowed to invoke other laws to implement permanent duties in

  President Lee Jae Myung speaks during the public briefing titled “A Korea that dreams again of becoming a nation of scientists and engineers” at the National Science Museum in Yuseong District, Daejeon, on Nov. 7, 2025. [NEWS1]   Korea’s technology gap with major competitors is widening, while fewer students are choosing science and engineering

Hong Kong  —  The Supreme Court ruling that nullified global tariffs from United States President Donald Trump has created renewed uncertainty for many of its major trade partners – and a clear vindication for its biggest economic rival: China. The dramatic rebuke to the US president’s trade agenda comes weeks before Trump is set to

Donald Trump’s new 15 per cent global tariff will most greatly benefit countries he has singled out for heavy criticism, including China and Brazil, data analysis shows. An examination of the new regime by independent trade monitoring body Global Trade Alert found that Brazil will enjoy the biggest reduction in average tariff rates — falling