Tag: global supply chains

• Big Technology Podcast: Trade War Scorecard: What’s Changing, Who’s Winning, What’s Next — With Ryan Petersen

  July 10, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/o7nZ8uT Ryan Petersen is the CEO of Flexport. Petersen joins Big Technology to discuss how the latest round of tariffs and trade-war maneuvers are rewiring supply chains worldwide. Tune… more ›

• ‘We pick your food’: migrant workers speak out from Spain’s ‘Plastic Sea’

  September 27, 2020

  The tens of thousands of migrant workers working in the province are vital to the Spanish economy and pan-European food supply chains. Throughout the pandemic, they have held essential worker… more ›

• China Secretly Built A Vast New Infrastructure To Imprison Muslims

  September 1, 2020

  China has secretly built scores of massive new prison and internment camps in the past three years, dramatically escalating its campaign against Muslim minorities even as it publicly claimed the detainees had… more ›

• The Twin Insurgency

  August 24, 2020

  The postmodern state is under siege from plutocrats and criminals who unknowingly compound each other’s insidiousness. States within the global political economy today face a twin insurgency, one from below,… more ›

• Exclusive: Cyprus sold passports to criminals and fugitives

  August 23, 2020

  Convicted fraudsters, money launderers and political figures accused of corruption are among dozens of people from more than 70 countries who have bought so-called “golden passports” from Cyprus, according to… more ›

• Who are the super rich who buy a new nationality?

  August 23, 2020

  Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has obtained a leak of documents revealing that more than 2,500 people paid to become Cypriot citizens between 2017 and 2019. With applicants from more than… more ›

• The Sordid, Sudsy Rise of Soap in China

  August 23, 2020

  The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust soap back in the limelight: Of all the hypothesized solutions to viral transmission — from big data-powered contact tracing to disinfectant injections — few are… more ›

• South China sea – global supply chains

  November 23, 2018

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• The solar economy’s supply chain stretches all the…

  January 1, 2018

  The solar economy’s supply chain stretches all the way to the tiniest object. Gravity has shifted. Shenzhen floods the market with cheap disposable utilities while the Valley’s grand announcements pull… more ›