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  • Lei Zhang, founder and CEO of Envision Group, has pledged his company will reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2028.

    Carbon offsets are the last resort for China’s Envision Group as it targets net-zero

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  • BEIJING, CHINA – JUNE 27: Citizens walk past a Tesla store on June 27, 2021 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Jiang Qiming/China News Service via Getty Images)International

    A Tesla ‘recall’ applies to nearly every car the company has sold in China

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  • Employees wearing cleanroom suits walk through the thin film bay inside the GlobalFoundries semiconductor manufacturing facility in Malta, New York, U.S., on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Production plants for semiconductors have become a focal point as the economic recovery from the pandemic is held back in areas by a shortage of some of the critical electronic components necessary. Photographer: Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesInternational

    U.S. chipmaker invests $4 billion in Singapore, even as Congress tries to lure manufacturers home

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  • A 200 millimetre silicon wafer in a lithography scanner during manufacture at the X-Fab Silicon Foundries SE semiconductor plant in Corbeil-Essonnes, France, on Tuesday, June 1, 2021. Shortages in the semiconductor industry, which have already slammed automakers and consumer electronics companies, are getting even worse, complicating the global economys recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesNewsletters

    The decline of Japan’s once-formidable chip industry shows how quickly tech tides can turn

    By Clay Chandler and Eamon Barrett
  • Aerial photo taken on May 13, 2021 shows the view of the Baihetan hydropower station under construction in southwest China.<br /> Baihetan on the Jinsha River, the upper section of the Yangtze, straddles the southwest provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan.<br /> With a total installed capacity of 16 million kilowatts, it is the second-largest hydropower station in China in terms of installed capacity, second only to the Three Gorges Dam project in the central province of Hubei.<br /> The first batch of Baihetan&#8217;s generating units will go into operation in July 2021, and all units are expected to be operational by July 2022. (Photo by Jiang Wenyao/Xinhua via Getty Images) (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao via Getty Images)International

    China is rationing hydropower—and Bitcoin mines are getting cut off

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  • SHENZHEN, CHINA &#8211; FEBRUARY 27: Aerial view of shipping containers sitting stacked at Shenzhen Yantian Port on February 27, 2021 in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province of China. (Photo by Xie Feng/VCG via Getty Images)International

    150 COVID cases caused a global shipping disruption that’s ‘worse’ than the Suez Canal blockage

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  • Justin Trudeau, Canada&#8217;s prime minister, Charles Michel, president of the European Council, U.S. President Joe Biden, Yoshihide Suga, Japan&#8217;s prime minister, Boris Johnson, U.K. prime minister, Mario Draghi, Italy&#8217;s prime minister, react during the &#8216;family photo&#8217; on the first day of the Group of Seven leaders summit in Carbis Bay, U.K., on Friday, June 11, 2021. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will give leaders a beachside welcome, formally kicking off three days of summitry along the English coast after meeting U.S. President Joe Biden for the first time on Thursday. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesNewsletters

    The G7 alternative to China’s Belt and Road Initiative is a ‘paper tiger’

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  • US President Joe Biden (C) and G7 leaders arrive for a family phtotograph during a reception at The Eden Project in south west England on June 11, 2021. &#8211; G7 leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the United States meet this weekend for the first time in nearly two years, for three-day talks in Carbis Bay, Cornwall. (Photo by Jack Hill / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JACK HILL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)Newsletters

    Biden traded Trump’s go-it-alone approach to China for consensus-building. It might be working

    By Clay Chandler and Eamon Barrett
  • Mining rigs mine the Ethereum and Zilliqa cryptocurrencies at the Evobits crypto farm in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2021. The worlds second-most-valuable cryptocurrency, Ethereum, rallied 75% this year, outpacing its larger rival Bitcoin. Photographer: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesInternational

    Another Chinese province bans Bitcoin mining—sort of

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  • Logo at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. headquarters in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. The TSMC is a key supplier to Apple, and its the iPhone makers commitment to become carbon neutral by 2030 that is driving much of the change throughout the supply chain. Photographer: Billy H.C. Kwok/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesInternational

    Taiwan’s drought is exposing just how much water chipmakers like TSMC use (and reuse)

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  • HANGZHOU, CHINA &#8211; AUGUST 28: Alibaba Group Chairman Jack Ma attends 2019 Global Conference on Women and Entrepreneurship on August 28, 2019 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)Newsletters

    Investors seem convinced Beijing’s tech crackdown has spread beyond Jack Ma

    By Clay Chandler and Eamon Barrett
  • A Shell oil barrel on a protest banner as environmental organisation MilieuDefensie take Royal Dutch Shell Plc to the Palace of Justice courthouse over emissions in The Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. Royal Dutch Shell Plc was ordered by a Dutch court to slash its emissions harder and faster than planned, dealing a blow to the oil giant that could have far reaching consequences for the rest of the global fossil fuel industry. Photographer: Peter Boer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesNewsletters

    Pressure campaigns are forcing oil giants to reinvent themselves

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  • WENCHANG, CHINA &#8211; APRIL 29: A Long March-5B Y2 rocket carrying the core module of China&#8217;s space station, Tianhe, blasts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on April 29, 2021 in Wenchang, Hainan Province of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)International

    China wants to be a leading space power by 2045—and it’s getting there fast

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  • TIANJIN, CHINA &#8211; 2021/05/23: Huge logo of the TESLA booth in the 5th World Intelligence congress, opened from May 20-22, in Tianjin. TESLA has drawn great public attention in China for the several traffic accidents recently. (Photo by Zhang Peng/LightRocket via Getty Images)International

    Tesla changes its China data policy after government scrutiny

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  • Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli is seen inside the P4 laboratory in Wuhan, capital of China&#8217;s Hubei province, on February 23, 2017. &#8211; The P4 epidemiological laboratory was built in co-operation with French bio-industrial firm Institut Merieux and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP) (Photo by JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)Newsletters

    Why the ‘Wuhan lab leak theory’ is getting a second look

    By Clay Chandler and Eamon Barrett