Geopolitical risk is no longer remote from day-to-day business concerns as it has historically tended to be, a new report states. The fourth edition of GlobalData’s Geopolitics Executive Briefing advises that companies in all sectors should now be paying constant attention to geopolitics. It explains that the starting point for this contention is “the chronic, intensifying and still-early-stage superpower rivalry between the US and China, in which economic weapons (sanctions, export controls, tariffs) are ...

The takeover of Nexperia's management by the Dutch government has angered Beijing, which responded by imposing export controls on products manufactured by the chipmaker and its subcontractors in China. Subsidiary Nexperia China, which operates a semiconductor factory in Dongguan, in the southern Guangdong province, has also openly challenged orders from its head office in the Netherlands. In the latest China Future Tech webinar, veteran Dutch journalist Marc Hijink, who has been covering the semiconducto ...