Yellen Goes To China, Threads Take On Tweets, America Needs Its Charge

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🗓️ 6 July 2023

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visits China on a mission to ease tensions and open communications. Facebook's parent launches Threads to compete with Twitter. And on-the-road charging remains a barrier to EV sales.

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0:00.0	A Treasury Secretary Janet Yellum says the U.S. and China need to find a way to work together.
0:07.2	Today, she's Washington's latest adversary to Beijing, trying to ease tensions with talk.
0:12.4	I'm Michelle Martin, that's Rob Schmitts, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:18.2	The U.S. wants to lead the climate fight with electric vehicles, but where will drivers
0:22.5	plug them in when they're on the road?
0:24.6	Clearly, we need more high-speed chargers.
0:27.2	We look at the state of the country's EV charging infrastructure.
0:30.4	Plus, Facebook's parent company is competing for the hearts of Twitter users,
0:34.5	where Mark Zuckerberg's threads succeed in taking on Elon Musk's Twitter sphere.
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1:15.1	Treasury Secretary Janet Yellum is the second U.S. cabinet official to visit Beijing in a month.
1:20.6	On the heels of a trip by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken,
1:23.2	Yellum has an agenda that includes meetings with China's new premier and other top officials
1:27.4	who have a hand in the economy.
1:29.0	The last time a U.S. Treasury Secretary visited China, Washington and Beijing were in a trade war.
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