In 2007, the year Apple first started making iPhones in China, the country was better known for cheap labor than for technological sophistication. At the time, Chinese firms were unable to produce almost any of the iPhone’s internal components, which were imported from Germany, Japan, and the United States. China’s …

The events in Georgia related to the new laws are not over, but are just beginning. Attempts to adopt the law “on foreign agents” at least in some version will be made again, and then, if the Georgian authorities have time and opportunity, norms (or existing ones) related to the …

Iran’s highest-ranking military commander said the country has manufactured an advanced ballistic missile that can hit moving targets in the sea. In comments on Monday, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri said Iran has gained the technical know-how to produce ballistic missiles capable …