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China, which considers the current Dalai Lama a separatist, has asserted that only Beijing has the authority to decide who his successor will be.

Granted rare access to a BYD plant near Shanghai, celebrated photographer Edward Burtynsky documented how automation is transforming China, labor and the world’s supply chains.