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American companies in China are reporting record-low investment plans and declining confidence in profits this year.

The hypothetical SR-72 “Darkstar” is not an obsolete concept in the age of spy satellites but a necessary complement to them. -Some, though, have called the SR-72 a modern battleship in the sense that ...