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It’s Romney’s moment for a profile in courage

As we finish this momentous week of impeachment, and so many days of listening to indignant, Constitution-spouting Republicans and Democrats, an exhausted America could be forgiven for switching the dial, at least briefly, to sports-talk radio. America seemed stranded at week’s end between House and Senate, between competing versions of outrage, and between the trench warfare at one end of ...

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China’s got a chip on its shoulder

From sanctions to export restrictions, the rest of the world views China’s chip champions like Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. with suspicion and skepticism. But inside the country, all investors see is a $300 billion-a-year golden opportunity. One could almost say that the Chinese have a chip on the shoulder by rewarding semiconductor startups with such a vengeance. Companies ...

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Amazon throws its weight around in FedEx dispute

You almost have to wonder if Amazon.com Inc. is baiting antitrust regulators. The e-commerce giant reportedly sent a message to third-party sellers instructing them to stop using FedEx Corp.’s ground-delivery network for Prime shipments. While Amazon earlier this year abandoned FedEx as a carrier for its own packages in the US, third-party merchants had still been able to work with ...

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