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Jun 6, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
Could the world live without #Taiwan's tech supply chain?

Take a look inside the ubiquitous #iPhone to understand how Taiwan became the indispensable economy.

s.nikkei.com/45QMYev Image The iPhone's success rests on a sprawling Asian supply chain. At its heart lie both mainland China and Taiwan.
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Dec 2, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
'PORTIONS ARE DIFFERENT' | GLOBAL PRICE HIKES UNSETTLE STOMACHS

Months into the worst inflation in decades, food price hikes are forcing consumers around the world to make difficult choices, and governments are feeling the pressure.

@mhunterhart reports

s.nikkei.com/2ZM7pvJ The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization updated its food price index on Thursday, showing the highest numbers since June of 2011. Food commodity prices in November rose 27.3% above the same time last year. Image
Jun 26, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
CHINA's EAST AFRICA HUB | TANZANIA

1/ On Saturday, Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan said the country will look to restart the $10 billion Bagamoyo Port project with China.

@kenmoriyasu
asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Inter… 2/ Xi visited Tanzania one week after becoming president in 2013 to kick off the Bagamoyo Project.

Beijing's state planners believed that the Indian-Ocean-facing country could be the main gateway to China.
Feb 25, 2021 5 tweets 3 min read
"Our supply chains can't be used against us as leverage," President Joe Biden said before signing the executive order, in an apparent allusion to China's role in American supply chains.
s.nikkei.com/3qRkhcg Biden's latest executive action comes as a global semiconductor shortage takes a heavy toll on automakers, with American giants such as Ford Motor and General Motors projecting billions in lost earnings this year due to reduced output.
Jul 23, 2020 21 tweets 8 min read
Amidst escalating tensions with Beijing, @SecPompeo's delivered a speech at @NixonLibrary.

Titled “Communist China & the Free World’s Future”, the speech is an important landmark in U.S.-China bilateral ties.

Selected by our editors, this thread features Pompeo's direct quotes. "Just this week we closed down China's consulate in Houston because it was a hub of spying and IP [intellectual property] theft" - @SecPompeo