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China’s Looming Power Shortages: Blackouts, or Blackmail?

The Financial Times’ beyondbrics blog peers behind recent warnings of power shortages in China in the coming months:[Is] this a real threat? Or is it just sabre-rattling by power companies keen to secure from the authorities increase in state-controlled electricity prices to compensate for rising world coal costs? It’s probably just talk, but nobody can be quite sure. During the hot summer