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Today in Manufacturing has a new podcast brought to you by the editors of Industrial Media. In each episode, we discuss the five biggest stories in manufacturing, and the implications they have on the industry moving forward.
August 4, 2022
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, center, poses with Tesla owners at a delivery ceremony for the first Tesla Model 3 cars made at Tesla's Shanghai factory in Shanghai on Jan. 7, 2020. Musk’s ties to China through his role as electric car brand Tesla’s biggest shareholder could add complexity to his bid to buy Twitter.
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Musk's China Ties Add Potential Risks to Twitter Purchase
Tesla's ambitions in China might give Beijing leverage to pressure Twitter to silence critics or ease rules on propaganda.
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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a container ship from Japan is anchored at the container dock of Shanghai's Yangshan Port in east China on April 27, 2022. China's export growth tumbled in April after Shanghai and other industrial cities were shut down to fight virus outbreaks.
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China Trade Weakens After Cities Shut Down to Fight Virus
The country's export growth tumbled.
May 9, 2022
In this Sept. 27, 2021 file photo, steam billows out of the cooling towers at a coal-fired power station in Nanjing in east China's Jiangsu province. The world's facing an energy crunch.
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October 19, 2021
Steam billows out of the cooling towers at a coal-fired power station in Nanjing in east China's Jiangsu province on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. Global shoppers face possible shortages of smartphones and other goods ahead of Christmas after power cuts to meet government energy use targets forced Chinese factories to shut down and left some households in the dark.
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China's Factories, Households Grapple With Power Cuts
Economists and an environmental group say manufacturers used up this year's quota faster than planned.
September 27, 2021
A security surveillance camera is seen near the Microsoft office building in Beijing, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. The Biden administration and Western allies formally blamed China on Monday for a massive hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software and asserted that criminal hackers associated with the Chinese government have carried out ransomware and other illicit cyber operations.
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China Rejects Hacking Charges, Accuses U.S. of Cyberspying
Four Chinese nationals are accused of working with the Ministry of State Security to steal U.S. trade secrets, technology and disease research.
July 20, 2021
In this Oct. 17, 2013, file photo, then British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, left, chats with Taishan Nuclear Power Joint Venture Co. Ltd. General Manager Guo Liming as he inspects a nuclear reactor under construction at the nuclear power plant in Taishan, southeastern China's Guangdong province.
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Hong Kong Watching Chinese Nuclear Plant After Leak Reported
Nuclear experts suggested that gas might be leaking from fuel rods inside the reactor.
June 15, 2021
In this Feb. 13, 2020, photo released by Xinhua News Agency, workers wearing masks labor at a factory for Chinese telecommunications company OPPO in Dongguan, in southern China's Guangdong Province.
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Chinese Factories Face New Threat
It's U.S. anti-virus controls.
March 19, 2020
People wearing protective face masks walk by a quiet Silk Street Mall, a usually popular tourist spot before the new coronavirus outbreak in Beijing, Wednesday, March 11, 2020.
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Companies Reopen in China Virus's Center
The province began allowing factories and some other businesses to reopen.
March 11, 2020
In this Monday, March 2, 2020, photo, a worker wearing a mask works at a factory producing bicycle wheel rims in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province. Factories in China that make the world's smartphones, toys and other consumer goods are trying to protect their employees from a virus outbreak as they resume production. Manufacturers are buying masks by the thousands and jugs of disinfectant. The ruling Communist Party has told local officials to help reopen factories that were idled by the most intensive anti-disease controls ever imposed.
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China's Factories Try to Shield Workers
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March 4, 2020
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China Slumps as Anti-Virus Controls Bite
Companies are confident activity will revive following government stimulus efforts.
March 2, 2020
A worker in overalls screen for fever at the entrance to a supermarket in Beijing Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
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Chinese Industry Recovering, More Aid Coming
At a news conference, officials expressed confidence China's 18 million small and medium-size enterprises are recovering quickly.
February 27, 2020
In this Feb. 17, 2020, file photo released by Xinhua News Agency, workers assemble Audi A6 L cars at a workshop of FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Co., Ltd. in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province.Factories that make the world's smartphones, toys and other goods are struggling to reopen after a virus outbreak idled China's economy. But even with the ruling Communist Party promising help, companies and economists say it may be months before production is back to normal.
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China Struggles to Revive Manufacturing
The virus outbreak has idled China’s economy.
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Automakers Gradually Reopen
The plants were idled by anti-virus controls.
February 17, 2020
In this Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, photo, workers watch a container ship arrive at a port in Qingdao in east China's Shandong province.
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China Cuts Tariffs on $75B of US Imports
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