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China’s 2022 heatwave

China’s 2022 heatwave
China was hit by its most severe drought and longest sustained period of extremely high temperatures in six decades in the summer of 2022. About half of the country’s landmass was hit, while a power crunch shut factories and sparked supply chain worries.
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