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Listen • 3:49 An employee makes respiratory masks in a family-owned medical equipment factory in Miami on Feb. 15. American manufacturers are thriving but they are running into an unexpected problem: Finding critical supplies. For Americans factories, business is good these days. Almost too good. Unexpectedly strong demand for furniture, appliances and other manufactured goods is providing a windfall to many of the countrys industries. But as factory gears spin faster to m...

U.S. factories are thriving thanks to unexpectedly strong demand for all kinds of goods, but that is also leading to unexpected headaches.

US May Boost Rare Earths Mining to Counter Threat From China WASHINGTON—The Chinese communist regime has recently signaled that it could leverage its dominance in rare earth minerals, a threat that has prompted the Biden administration to take action to reduce U.S. reliance on China for rare earths that are used in everything from smartphones to electric vehicles to fighter jets. In 1992, Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping predicted the importance of rare earths to China’s future when h...

2021/02/26 12:56 Taiwan and US flags (Getty Images) Taiwan and US flags (Getty Images) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan will continue to work with the U.S. and coordinate on supply chain issues, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) on Thursday (Feb. 25). MOFA Spokesperson Joanne Ou (歐江安) stated that Taipei and Washington are important trading partners and that cooperation between the two countries on supply chain issues h...

WASHINGTON — Automakers have been forced to halt production because of a lack of computer chips. Health care workers battling the coronavirus pandemic had to make do without masks as the United States waited on supplies from China. And pharmaceutical executives worried that supplies of critical drugs could dry up if countries tried to stockpile key ingredients and block exports. Deep disruptions in the global movement of critical goods during...

Published: Thursday, February 25, 2021 President Biden. Photo credit: Francis Chung/E&E News The Biden administration is launching a review of ways to secure domestic supplies of batteries, battery minerals and other key electric vehicle components. President Biden is pictured during his inauguration in January. Francis Chung/E&E News A sweeping Biden executive order yesterday is fueling debate about whether a U.S.-based electric vehicle supply chain can be jump-started affordably by the federa...

President Biden is expected to meet with a bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers at the White House Wednesday afternoon to discuss supply chain issues, including a shortage in semiconductor chips.

Morning Report. Today is Wednesday! We get you up to speed on the most important developments in politics and policy, plus trends to watch. Alexis Simendinger and @asimendinger and @alweaver22. Please recommend the Morning Report to friends and let us know what you think. CLICK HERE to subscribe! Total U.S. coronavirus deaths each morning this week: Monday, 498,901; Tuesday, 500,310; Wednesday, 502,660. Top security officials involved in the response to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. C...

The White House held a press briefing Wednesday. Watch a video here.

WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) - US President Joe Biden is filling out his China policy team with staff whose past writing and speeches align with the tough tone toward Beijing that emerged under his predecessor Donald Trump, adding to evidence that the new administration won't revert to an earlier era of conciliation.. Read more at straitstimes.com.