Power cuts roil China, threatening growth and supply chains

Dongguan/Beijing, China (AFP) Sept 30, 2021

From southern factories hustling to meet Christmas export orders to residents of northern towns panic buying candles, China is suffering widespread power cuts that threaten growth in the world's second-largest economy and hit global supply chains. A confluence of factors has led to the rolling brownouts in a country where nearly 60 percent of the economy is powered by coal. Record coal