You know, an iphone sold in the us or europe might be designed in california and built in india using Semiconductors Made in taiwan from Raw Materials provided by china. So if any link in that supply chain breaks, it sets up big problems for the rest of the chain. And thats true for smartphones, as it is for pcs, and especially in Battery Production for those Electric Vehicles were buying more and more of. So what if one country decides to make it harderfor others to get hold of some of those critical Raw Materials . Well, thats what china announced just last month. Translation the Chinese Government implements i Export Controls on gallium and germanium related items in accordance with the law to ensure that they are used for legitimate purposes in order to safeguard National Security and better fulfil our international obligations. For quite some time now, the us side has been abusing Export Control measures to continuously strengthen its crackdown on chinas semiconductors and artific
well, on that positive point, steve macmillan, the big boss of hologic, thanks very much for your time. good luck with everything and we ll talk to you again soon. thank you so much for having us, aaron. we appreciate it. well, that s it for this week s show. i hope you enjoyed it. don t forget, you can keep up with the latest on our global economy on the bbc website or the smartphone app. of course, you can also follow me on by by me. i ll by you back. thanks for watching. i ll see you soon. bye bye. hello there. certainly was quite an eventful start to our weekend with storm betty pushing north, bringing heavy rain and strong winds. a pretty grey and blustery start in northern ireland. here we had 46 millimetres of rain from storm betty, but the story improved and actually we had some sunshine and some warmth coming through by the end of the afternoon, temperatures in lincolnshire peaking at 25.9 celsius.