Japan’s latest export controls on chipmaking equipment aim to significantly curb China’s ability to make advanced chips. One expert told The Epoch Times that Japan’s move shows its clear stance against China’s communist regime and alignment with the United States. The Japanese government announced on March 31 export restrictions on 23 types of advanced semiconductor manufacturing…
A missile launched by North Korea caused alarm and panic in Japan before the weapon fell into the sea. North Korea launched the missile between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, South Korean officials said, calling it a “grave provocation”. A South Korean military official said the test apparently involved a new weapons system displayed at…
SHANGHAI, March 6 (Reuters) – The United States is working to expand its restrictions on the export of chipmaking equipment to China by securing cooperation with the Netherlands and Japan, forcing Chinese chipmakers to turn to domestic suppliers such as those listed below. SHANGHAI MICRO ELECTRONICS EQUIPMENT (SMEE) SMEE is China’s only producer of lithography machines used…
NEW DELHI (AP) — The top diplomats of Australia, India, Japan and the United States offered sharp but veiled criticism of China on Friday, even as they maintained their Indo-Pacific-focused bloc is not aimed at countering Beijing. In comments at a public event and in a written statement, the four foreign ministers used buzzwords and…
TOKYO, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Japan on Friday unveiled its biggest military build-up since World War Two with a $320 billion plan that will buy missiles capable of striking China and ready it for sustained conflict, as regional tensions and Russia’s Ukraine invasion stoke war fears. The sweeping, five-year plan, once unthinkable in pacifist Japan,…
Japan and the Netherlands have agreed in principle to join the US in tightening controls over the export of advanced chipmaking machinery to China, according to people familiar with the matter, a potentially debilitating blow to Beijing’s technology ambitions. The two countries are likely to announce in the coming weeks that they’ll adopt at least…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off early Sunday from Cape Canaveral, boosting a commercially developed Japanese moon lander into space for a three-month voyage to touchdown in a 54-mile-wide crater. Also on board: A small NASA orbiter that will search for ice deposits in cold, permanently shadowed craters near the moon’s poles. Appropriately enough,…
China and Japan have pledged to strengthen communication over maritime issues and hold a new round of economic talks in an effort to stabilise relations, but a number of sticking points remain. Following Thursday’s meeting between President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, the two sides released a five-point document that said they had…
Seoul, South Korea — North Korea on Tuesday fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years, forcing Japan to issue evacuation notices and suspend trains during the flight of the nuclear-capable weapon that could reach the U.S. territory of Guam, and possibly beyond. The launch was the most provocative weapons…
Greetings from Tyler, News of the shooting in a Copenhagen mall has circled the globe. Maybe if they only had stricter gun laws this wouldn’t have happened. Do you think somebody intent on killing people is going to care about the gun laws? Lawful citizens already have to abide all kinds of regulations and federal…