… In 2024, the Financial Times heralded the project as a soft power blow against China, calling it “the U.S. railway that could set off a copper war.” Later that year, President Biden visited Benguela, the terminus of the corridor, with Angola’s president and Congo’s president, Félix Antoine Tshiseke… …
… The removal would clear the way for Vietnam to move beyond assembling and packaging chips to manufacturing them, repositioning it as a chip industry partner for the U.S. “For the semiconductor supply chain, this decision signals a transition for Vietnam from a back-end assembly hub to an upstream m… …
… Government contracts obtained via public records requests show that alongside constructing command centers, the company and its subsidiaries design intelligence gathering and sharing systems, procuring the necessary equipment — cameras, drones, license plate readers, and computer software — or supp… …