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Deep dive | Power crunch 2.0

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China’s got power problems.
ICYMI: Over the past two months, a growing number of central and southern provinces have been hit with the worst – and longest-lasting – heatwaves on record.

Worse, the heatwaves have coincided with a record-shattering drought in the Yangtze River basin.

The result: Pow...