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

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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. companies to invest in product development and commercialization activities through to long-term demonstration projects.

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Tesla’s biggest investor: it’s a family business masquerading as a public company

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The Indonesian-born Chinese American businessman is better known for founding SHI International Corp, a large private IT company that made him a billionaire. KoGuan is the third largest individual shareholder in the company, but you could argue that he is the biggest Tesla investor as he invested more than anyone in the company: $3.5

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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. Xu had said earlier that the company's goal now is to simply survive.

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Lawmakers want US to probe four Chinese firms involved in Ford battery plant – ET Auto

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House committees asked the Biden administration to investigate four Chinese companies they say are involved in Ford Motor’s planned Michigan battery plant, according to a letter seen Monday by Reuters. The committee said the same Chinese company is providing engineering design services to China’s military.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

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And I had a small database construction company, but then gave it up when I went to law school and then graduate school on philosophy. That is, it doesn’t actually hack into Chinese companies, let’s say, and steal their blueprints. So I think that Russia, North Korea, Iran, they’re the geopolitical peasants, so to speak.

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