Apple powers Taiwan export orders back to growth in August

Taiwan’s export orders expanded in August – unexpectedly to analysts – on strong demand for technology and new consumer electronics product launches such as Apple’s market-beating iPhones even as China, the island’s largest market, faced continued, largely self-imposed headwinds due to the Chinese Communist Party’s quixotic. seemingly never-ending mass lockdowns in a futile quest for “zero-COVID.”Reuters:The government said the outlook was mixed du