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...The broader economy has shown mixed signals in the early months of 2023 following Beijing’s dramatic U-turn on its Covid-19 strategy, which had weighed heavily on consumer spending by imposing lockdowns...
...Residents in the southwestern metropolis of Chongqing are trapped at home, while lockdowns in the southern manufacturing hub of Guangzhou have expanded....
...[AUDIO CLIP IN CHINESE PLAYING] This is a truck driver. He’s kneeling in the middle of the road as cars drive past him....
...“And Li Lu just backed up the truck, bought all he could and made a killing.” Every June brought the painful anniversary of Tiananmen....
...Donald Trump’s U-turns are the subject of today’s Tall Tales, while the main piece is on the difficulties of navigating trade bureaucracy at speed during a crisis....
...Because of its “just-in-time” production system, Toyota keeps only four hours’ worth of parts at its Burnaston plant, with an average of 50 trucks delivering components from the EU each day....
...The arguments against catering to workers’ demands in this way mostly come down to admin and expense....
...“We appreciate the actions this administration has taken on behalf of industry to improve the overall competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing,” GM said....
...Mr Trump’s U-turn followed warnings from fellow Republicans that closing the border would have devastating consequences for manufacturing and the US economic recovery....
...She joined forces with a truck driver from the same region who wanted to hold a day of demonstrations....
...NOT IN THE U.S.A.!” Uzbekistan’s ministry of foreign affairs is investigating media reports that the man detained by police was an Uzbek citizen....
...Sumitronics Manufacturing (Cambodia)....
...NOT IN THE U.S.A.!”...
...It was named for a settler, Henry Janes, and its manufacturing history began early....
...Toyota owns a manufacturing plant in Baja, Mexico, where it builds pickup trucks....
..., where it builds the Tacoma pick-up truck....
...This letter also featured a scary chart: In it, he said (again handily providing emphasis himself): the U.K. is a must to avoid. Its Gilts are resting on a bed of nitroglycerine....
...Now a new model is emerging, one centered on catering to the needs of a middle class expected to grow from 300 million to half a billion people within ten years....
...But by the 1920s, after a conversation with Henry Ford, founder William Darley had turned to manufacturing a $690 kit that allowed towns around the US to convert Model Ts into affordable fire trucks....
...A Malcom McLean will sit in a truck and, frustrated, see a new way of moving things....
...In particular, the U.S....
...When Jim was growing up, Peterborough was a predominantly white, churchgoing community defined by Trent University, a handful of U.S. manufacturing branch plants, and the summer influx of affluent Toronto...
...“China has a huge image problem here,” is how Than Myint-U, the Burmese historian and author, puts it....
...As the Germans (and the Swiss, Austrians and French, too) haven’t moved on from wavy plates, swirly serving dishes and other nouvelle touches in many catering environments, the OMO programme will get German...
...Ford — Robert Wright, New York When the first redesigned version of the US’s bestselling pick-up truck rolled off the production line in November, it was not obvious how revolutionary it could be....
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