Is spying really happening at U.S. ports?

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Most of the cargo cranes at U.S. ports are made in China, and they could be spying. The Biden administration announced a plan to spend billions of dollars to replace and manufacture the equipment domestically over national security concerns. We’ll explain. Plus, how an Alabama court ruling on embryos may affect fertility treatments in a post-Roe world. And, the story of a man, an astronaut and a homemade antenna.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “U.S. to Invest Billions to Replace China-Made Cranes at Nation’s Ports” from The Wall Street Journal

- “Alabama Supreme Court rules frozen embryos are children, imperiling IVF” from The Washington Post

- “Alabama health system pauses IVF treatments after court embryo ruling” from The Hill

- “Man in Backyard Talks to Orbiting Astronaut Using Homemade Antenna” from kottke.org

- “Florida farmworkers created America’s strongest workplace heat rules” from The Washington Post

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0:00.0	Let's go.
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0:06.0	Just in time hosting right there.
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0:10.0	Hey everybody I'm Kyle Rizdall.
0:11.0	Welcome back to Make Me Smart.
0:12.0	Today making it make sense sense that's what we do
0:15.2	Indeed and I'm Kimberly Adams. Thank you for joining us on this Wednesday. It is February the 21st
0:20.4	And we're glad to have you along with us.
0:23.6	We are going to do what we always do on a Wednesday news, smiles,
0:28.0	and then carry out the plan of the day.
0:30.4	What do you got, Ms Adams?
0:31.4	If you want to go first, if you want to go first if you want to go second it up to you
0:35.5	You know what why don't you go first? All right
0:37.8	Crazy story in the Wall Street Journal today which kind of makes you do a double take. I will read you the headline and
0:44.3	then discuss briefly you should read this article. US to invest billions to
0:48.5	replace China-Made cranes at nation's ports. We're talking about these giant cranes that take
0:55.6	containers off container ships and get them onto the trucks and then send them out
1:01.7	into this economy. The fear is basically that by using Chinese
1:09.5	made cranes, which will have capacity, the United States fears, to track what is coming in and out of this country a not unreasonable fear it seems to me
1:18.8	We are placing ourselves at a strategic disadvantage now should somebody have thought of this a while ago?
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