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China detains workers at iPhone maker

Marketplace All-in-One

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Business, News

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

From the BBC World Service: Chinese police have detained four workers of the Taiwanese iPhone maker Foxconn in circumstances Taipei has described as “strange.” The employees were arrested in Zhengzhou on “breach of trust” charges. We’ll unpack. Then, Portugal wants to bring in a new law to give a decade of tax breaks to people up to the age of 35. And “ghost” distilleries are being resurrected as demand for rare whiskey soars,

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive

0:03.4

It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy.

0:09.6

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

0:14.4

It was the cold war and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.

0:18.6

Today though, there's another threat out there, climate change.

0:22.6

This could be the warmest year on record.

0:24.6

Climate change is here.

0:25.7

Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.

0:29.5

And while the threat seems new, the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.

0:35.9

I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.

0:44.7

This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis

0:47.5

to see how the military is preparing for the threat.

0:51.0

Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:56.0

Chinese police detain Taiwanese iPhone maker staff, Taipei calls the incident strange.

1:02.0

Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the calls the

1:03.9

incident strange. Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC

1:05.3

world service. Good morning I'm Stuart Clarkson in Fort Leanna Byrne.

1:09.2

It's known as iPhone City, the Taiwanese company FoxCon's factory in Jun

1:12.6

Jung Joe in China, where millions of phones are made for

1:16.7

Apple. But there's mystery around the detention of

1:19.3

four workers there by Chinese police. The BBC's Mariko Oi is following the story.

1:24.4

Hi there, Marico.

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