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So what’s holding the U.S. back from having a super app available? WSJ explains why, despite challenges, companies still see it as their holy grail product.
Supply chains are becoming more tangled and opaque
On august 9th President Joe Biden unveiled his latest weapon in America’s economic war with China. New rules will police investments made abroad by the private sector, and those into the most sensitive technologies in China will be banned. The use of such curbs by the world’s strongest champion of capitalism is the latest sign of the profound shift in America’s economic policy as it contends with the rise of an increasingly assertive and threatening rival.
The countries’ economic ties are more profound than they appear
When it comes to tracing the geography of global supply chains, few companies provide a better map than Foxconn, the world’s largest contract manufacturer. This year the Taiwanese giant has built or expanded factories in India, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam. The Chinese production sites once loved by Western companies are firmly out of fashion. Souring relations between the governments in Washington and Beijing have made businesses increasingly fretful about geopolitical risks. As a consequence, in the first half of the year, America traded more with Mexico and Canada than it did with China for the first time in almost two decades. The map of global trade is being redrawn.
The New York Times Magazine – April 23, 2023:
The crime-scene investigators are the ones who document, and remember, the unimaginable. This is what they saw at Sandy Hook.
In Israel, the United States and other democracies, bitter battles are being waged over the same question.
Whether the platform is dying or not, it’s time to reckon with how exactly it broke our brains.
For the heroism of its people, and for standing up to a bully
Some years bring disorder, others a resolution. This one asked questions
He has had a crash course in the trade-offs in protecting free expression
Anopheles stephensi may dramatically increase the number of people at risk
Many researchers are setting up profiles on another social media service known as Mastodon
Astrophysicist Christian Ott filed a criminal complaint after job offer withdrawn
Long-term study in China shows yields hold up and farmers save money and time
The James Webb Space Telescope can peer into alien skies like never before. With six potentially habitable planets within its sights, astronomers are entering a new era in the search for biology beyond our solar system
The age at which you are considered an adult differs around the world, but emerging research into the developing brain suggests we may have got the concept of adulthood all wrong. When do we really become a grown-up?
Our twenty-first-century culture of performed remorse has become a sorry spectacle.
The actress and screenwriter takes on a musical.
They dominated far longer than they were dominated, and, a new book contends, shaped the United States in profound ways.
Inside Barron’s November 7, 2022 Issue:
Love him or hate him, the Tesla CEO is about to show whether Twitter can take flight under his ownership. More than his billions are at stake.
Tensions flare between Germany and the rest of the EU over the energy crisis. Plus: former US president Donald Trump sues CNN, a flick through the day’s papers and the London Film Festival kicks off.
As UN chief António Guterres heads to Moscow, we give you the latest on his meeting with Vladimir Putin. Plus: US diplomats begin to return to Ukraine, Elon Musk strikes a deal to buy Twitter and a round-up of the latest news from the Nordic region.
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