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
will certainly not trust me. and whether it s personal, or business, or country to country, that really takes its toll. so i think for both sides, it would be very good for small gestures of trust to be made. well, on that point einar tangen from the taihe institute and chairman of asian narratives, a real pleasure having you on the show. thanks forjoining me. and i ll talk to you soon. thank you, aaron. a pleasure doing this. ok, so how do you turn around your fortunes in the face of an unprecedented threat? you know, many businesses struggle to survive during the covid pandemic, but for the women s health care company hologic, it was a chance to, well, prove what they could do and live by their own mantra of empowering people to live healthier lives everywhere, every day. a tough call when much of the world went into lockdown, but hologic pivoted its business from women s health to developing mass covid i9 testing injust a matter of weeks.