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Automakers around the world are shutting assembly lines because of a global shortage of semiconductors Reuters January 16, 2021 An employee works at the assembly line of the Ford car factory of Saarlouis, December 6, 2010. PHOTO: REUTERS Automakers around the world are shutting assembly lines because of a global shortage of semiconductors that in some cases has been exacerbated by the Trump administration’s actions against key Chinese chip factories, industry officials said. The shortage, which caught much of the industry off-guard and could continue for many months, is now causing Ford M...

>> ambitious plans to achieve economic dominance abroad and total surveillance at home. >> whoever wins the tech wars, especially in artificial intelligence and big data, in the next five years, is going to control the world in the future. >> i traveled all across china with amazing access to see how chinese technology is already leapfrogging the u.s. >> china has become a rival superpower to the united states. >> and maybe even spying on us in places you'd never expect. >> it creates a major vulnerability. i'll just leave it at that. >> i'm richard engel. this is "on assignment." >> there's a...

We'll explain. president trump slapped china with import taxes. fears of a trade war, remember? assurances that china would never retaliate, remember? they just retaliated and now there's feel of a real trade war along with trouble in tech wars. serious market implications. let's get to it. the news is breaking on multiple fronts. we'll begin with the markets in the tank today on the heels of chinese retaliation to president trump's foreign tariffs and a trump tweet attacking amazon. a live look at the dow jones industrial average. 100 points off the low. at one point, the dow was off 700 poin...