The year ahead was shaping up to be a difficult one for businesses that deal with cycles of soaring and waning demand. The industry was already expecting a decline in growth.
The US has imposed the widest restrictions on the kind of chips it can sell to China. Federal subsidies have been introduced to encourage manufacturers to return to the U.S. Protectionist policies have been launched by other governments.
The industry that has relied on globally distributed supply chains and free trade will be thrown into uncertainty by these changes. Experts think it will play out over the course of a year. The full story is available to read.
There is a person who says, "Ze Yi Yang."
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The startup is trying to make the climate better.
The startup Make Sunset claims to have launched weather balloons that may have released reflective sulfur particles in the sky, potentially breaking a controversial barrier in the field of solargeoengineering. It is controversial because it is thought that spraying sulfur and similar particles in sufficient quantities could possibly ease global warming. So little is known about the real-world effect of such interventions that scientists have largely avoided doing so.
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