At a time when ideas, money and goods freely circumnavigate the globe, people crossing borders have never been more tightly controlled. Perhaps nowhere near as elaborate is the European Union’s system of border management. Third-country citizens, that is, people who are not citizens of EU member-sta...

China is now the world's largest producer of electronic products. In its industrial zones, all along the coastline, reside high-tech factories which supply the world’s largest multinationals. American-owned Hewlett-Packard and Dell, Taiwanese-owned Acer and Chinese-owned Lenovo all make up nearly h...