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China plans to limit global access to its EV battery technologies · TechNode– technode.com
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Beijing is planning to revise its rules controlling global access to battery manufacturing technologies in a tit-for-tat move after major Western economies including the European Union and the United States decided to impose punitive tariffs on China-made electric vehicles. Chinese companies would have to obtain a government permit to export technologies used to produce lithium-phosphate-iron (LFP) cathode materials, a key component in iron-based, affordable lithium-ion batteries, according to an annual export control catalogue updated by the Ministry of Commcerce on Jan. 2. The Chinese government is also looking to place new constraints on local companies’ ability to sell technologies used in extracting lithium from hard rock spodumene ore. The proposed measures are open to public review until Feb. 1. [South China Morning Post]

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer hits back at Elon Musk and the “poison of the far right”– www.cbsnews.com
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Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer hit back at Elon Musk on Monday after the world’s richest man repeatedly lobbed a host of inflammatory allegations at the country’s leader over his government’s record on a long-running national child grooming scandal.

Musk has accused the United Kingdom leader of being “complicit in the rape of Britain” on his X platform and has repeatedly elevated claims without evidence that Starmer knowingly refused to prosecute child groomers when he was the country’s top lawyer.

EPSOM, ENGLAND – JANUARY 06: U.K. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer answers questions from the media. The prime minister defended his record after tech billionaire Elon Musk made several allegations about the U.K. government’s handling of historic child sex abuses in the country. 

Trump ‘border czar’ admits he’s just making up terrorism claims– www.dailykos.com
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Tom Homan, Donald Trump’s pick to be “border czar” in his upcoming administration, admitted during a Fox News appearance on Thursday that he had no evidence for a connection he alleged between the truck attack in New Orleans and the Tesla explosion in Las Vegas.

Appearing on Fox’s “America Reports” program, Homan told anchor Sandra Smith that he believed law enforcement would find a connection between the two incidents.

Homan used the allegation as a launchpad to continue his advocacy for more restrictive immigration policy and attacked President Joe Biden’s administration over the issue—even though both of the men involved in the New Orleans and Las Vegas attacks were American citizens who served in the military.

Joe Biden Presents Award To Liz Cheney– wltreport.com
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Joe Biden awarded 20 individuals the Presidential Citizens Medal, one of the country’s highest civilian honors.

The recipients included key members of the House Jan. 6 committee.

Biden awarded the medal to former Congresswoman Liz Cheney and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS).

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Biden Stops Japan’s Nippon Steel From Buying U.S. Steel– legalinsurrection.com
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President Joe Biden officially blocked Japan’s Nippon Steel from buying U.S. Steel.

In his statement, Biden cited national security and authority given to him under the Defense Protection Act of 1950 as to why he blocked the $14.1 billion deal:

We need major U.S. companies representing the major share of US steelmaking capacity to keep leading the fight on behalf of America’s national interests. As a committee of national security and trade experts across the executive branch determined, this acquisition would place one of America’s largest steel producers under foreign control and create risk for our national security and our critical supply chains.