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What would happen if China invaded Taiwan?

Resilinc

One day in August 2022, a group of military and defense strategy experts gathered in Washington, DC, to play a game that simulated a Chinese amphibious invasion of Taiwan in 2026. Given these consequences, “Victory is therefore not enough,” wrote CSIS in its report, “The United States needs to strengthen deterrence.”

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Forced Labor in the Automotive Supply Chain: What Car Companies Can Do

Resilinc

The automotive parts manufacturing market is expected to reach nearly US $2 trillion by 2026, and China wants a piece of the pie. China’s “Made in China 2025” plan prioritizes becoming “a world manufacturing power”, including the automotive and automotive parts industries. The plan is working.

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Commodities Used in Electric Car Batteries: An Update on Lithium and Nickel

Resilinc

In India, the national Production Linked Incentive (PLI) is set to encourage domestic EV manufacturing—and this is just a glimpse of the latest policies worldwide. In contrast, the United States has made a significant breakthrough with the discovery of a massive lithium deposit along the Nevada-Oregon border.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

49% of respondents were from the manufacturing industry, 16% from the mechanical engineering sector, and 11% from the automotive market. The United States’ and Europe’s production of global semiconductors decreased from approximately 80% in 1990 to 20% in 2020. of small businesses in the United States. McKinsey ).

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Top 10 Logistics Trends That Could Impact Supply Chains in 2022

Locus

Billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 9.28% from 2019 to 2026. – Statista, Direct-to-consumer (D2C) e-commerce sales in the United States from 2019 to 2023, Jun 2021, United States. Third-party logistics (3PL) is a growing industry in the United States. Dollars by 2022 ans 174.9

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

For over a century, we have seen increasing automation in supply chain, especially in manufacturing and the pace has quickened in the past decade with robotization in production, warehousing, and transport. AI has been estimated to displace 38% of transport jobs and 30% of manufacturing jobs (Ghosh, 2018). Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Food is Not Food if It’s Unsafe

Enterra Insights

The staff at Food Safety News reports that a study from the Mars Global Food Safety Center (GFSC), which, at the height of the pandemic, surveyed people in the United States, United Kingdom and China, “found 77 percent of people [believed] food safety is a top 10 worldwide problem.”[4] ” What Can Be Done?

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