{"id":442992,"date":"2021-10-16T11:05:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T05:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=442992"},"modified":"2021-10-16T12:39:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T07:09:35","slug":"chinas-power-problems-expose-a-strategic-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinas-power-problems-expose-a-strategic-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s power problems expose a strategic weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bread company cannot get all the power it needs for its bakeries. A chemicals supplier for some of the world\u2019s biggest paint producers announced production cuts. A port city changed electricity-rationing rules for manufacturers four times in a single day.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s electricity shortage is rippling across factories and industries, testing the nation\u2019s status as the world\u2019s capital for reliable manufacturing. The shortage prompted authorities to announce Wednesday a national rush to mine and burn more coal, despite previous pledges to curb emissions that cause climate change. <\/p>\n<p>Mines that were closed without authorization have been ordered to reopen. Coal mines and coal-fired power plants that were shut for repairs are also to be reopened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bread company cannot get all the power it needs for its bakeries. A chemicals supplier for some of the world\u2019s biggest paint producers announced production cuts. A port city changed electricity-rationing rules for manufacturers four times in a single day. China\u2019s electricity shortage is rippling across factories and industries, testing the nation\u2019s status as the world\u2019s capital for reliable manufacturing. The shortage prompted authorities to announce Wednesday a national rush to mine and burn more coal, despite previous pledges to curb emissions that cause climate change. Mines that were closed without authorization have been ordered to reopen. Coal mines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}