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Study finds unprecedented urbanization and urban expansion in East-Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2010

Green Car Congress

The overall study area covered East-Southeast Asia and included 17 countries: China (including Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR); Taiwan; Japan; Mongolia; North Korea; South Korea; Brunei Darussalam; Cambodia; Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Philippines; Singapore; Thailand; Timor-Leste; Vietnam. —Professor Schneider.

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Tesla signs lithium supply agreement with China-based company 

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The American automaker has been strengthening its global supply chain to support localized production. In the United States, Tesla teamed up with Piedmont Lithium, which received approval to set up mining operations in North Carolina earlier this year. For electric vehicles (EVs) sold in the U.S.

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Automakers win extension on use of Chinese graphite in EV tax credits – ET Auto

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Treasury has temporarily exempted graphite and other trace critical minerals from new strict rules barring materials from China and other countries deemed a Foreign Entity of Concern (FEOC), including North Korea, Russia and Iran. ” The new rules, required under an August 2022 law, are designed to wean the U.S. .

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Eagle Graphite and University of British Columbia partner on development of silicon-modified anodes

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Flake graphite accounts for approximately 40% of global natural graphite supply. The supply of flake graphite is concentrated primarily in China and Mozambique, with Brazil, North Korea, Canada and India accounting for nearly all of the remainder of production.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

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US sanctions targeting China's telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies have crippled the company, effectively forcing it out of the global smartphone market and now threatening its domestic phone business as well. What's at stake is control of international 5G networks, which are expected to transform global communications.

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Aurus Senat limo that Putin gifted to Kim uses South Korean parts, data shows

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The imports point to Russia’s ongoing reliance on Western technology as it seeks to navigate Western attempts to cut it off from global supply chains as punishment for its invasion of Ukraine. Customers include Turkmenistan President Serdar Berdymukhamedov.

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How to Disable a Nuclear Warhead in Midflight

Cars That Think

Three of them—Russia, China, and North Korea—have publicly declared irreconcilable opposition to American-style liberal democracy. Thousands of nuclear missiles can be in the air within minutes of a launch command; the consequence of an operational mistake or security miscalculation would be the obliteration of global society.