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Washington Post
24-05-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
How Apple's lucrative bet on China boosted the country's tech sector
As the world's first $3 trillion publicly traded company, Apple is an unusual kind of political actor — endlessly resourced, capable of shaping a nation's industrial policy but still buffeted by the great forces of statecraft, of history. Apple may have the gross domestic product of a small nation, but it doesn't have an army; it must play by others' rules.
Bloomberg
12-05-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Alberta Freezes Industrial Carbon Tax to Help Firms as Tariffs Hurt Economy
Alberta is freezing its industrial carbon tax in a bid to help companies struggling with the effects of US tariffs, potentially setting up a challenge to the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney. Canada's top oil-producing province will keep the tax at C$95 ($68) per metric ton for an indefinite time, officials said at a press conference Monday. The levy had been scheduled to rise to C$110 per metric ton next year and to C$170 by 2030, according to federal rules that govern the provincial carbon tax levels.
