Asia politics

Taiwan Is Caught in the middle of a war over Microchips

Taiwan Is Caught in the middle of a war over Microchips

Concerned over fears about Chinese threats to Taiwan The U.S. and others have attempted to increase their share of Taiwan’s semiconductor manufacturing. As Chinese warships practiced the blockade in Taiwan in March, they practiced the scenario that global politicians and leaders have been worried about not war, but the slowing down of the supply chains of electronic …

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U.S. is planning to limit the influence of Chinese A.I. supercomputing companies

U.S. is planning to limit the influence of Chinese A.I. supercomputing companies

These new regulations could prove to be the most expansive decision taken in the Biden administration to block Chinese access to American technology that powers data centers as well as supercomputers. It is expected that the Biden administration is scheduled to announce new rules to block Chinese businesses from having access to the technologies that …

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Chine is overtaking the U.S. in key technologies

Chine is overtaking the U.S. in key technologies

While Congress was debating how and when to help American chipmakers as well as research into other technologies, China was surging ahead. In the months prior to when the House and Senate concluded 13 months of debate and approved the $ 280 billion CHIPS and Science Act, China’s largest, state-owned chip maker jumped a significant …

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Dutch supremacy in chip making. U.S. and China battling over the technology

Dutch supremacy in chip making. U.S. and China battling over the technology

A chip-making machine worth $150 million made by a Dutch company has turned into an instrument in the U.S.-Chinese battle. It also shows how ingrained the supply chain in the world is. President Biden and several members of Congress in Washington are concerned about computers and China’s plans to use the technology that is at the core …

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Meta Rejects Chinese Efforts to Influence the U.S. Elections

Meta Rejects Chinese Efforts to Influence the U.S. Elections

Meta, parent company of Instagram and Facebook, announced Tuesday that it had taken down what it called the first targeted Chinese campaign to interfere with U.S. politics in advance of the November midterm elections. Contrary to Russian efforts during the previous two presidential elections however, the Chinese campaign seemed limited in scope and clumsy at points. According …

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Russia's Unfounded Claims about Secret U.S. Bio-Weapons Continue to Linger On

Russia’s Unfounded Claims about Secret U.S. Bio-Weapons Continue to Linger On

The Kremlin has made allegations against the U.S. that it operates laboratories in Ukraine and other countries without providing any evidence. It called a Geneva investigative session this week. The United States secretly produced biological weapons in Ukraine. It taught birds how to bring pathogens into Russia. It invented Covid-19. It ran laboratories in Nigeria, which engineered the monkeypox …

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China's strategic support to Russia

China’s Echoes of Russia’s Alternate Reality Increase Around the World

China’s state media and officials are increasingly echoing Russian propaganda about the war in Ukraine. This is undermining diplomatic efforts by the U.S., Europe, and even after the massacre in Bucha. China’s state media quickly defended Twitter’s warning message that was posted atop a Russian government posting denying civilian deaths in Bucha, Ukraine last week. Frontline, …

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China's strategic support to Russia

China Shows Sympathy to Russia Despite its stance against the West by bristling against it

China’s Communist Party has launched an ideological campaign targeting students and officials. The message is: China will not abandon Russia. While Russian troops are pounding Ukraine, Chinese officials have been meeting behind closed doors in order to examine a Communist Party-produced documentary which extols President Vladimir V. Putin as a hero. According to the video, the …

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Russia's Unfounded Claims about Secret U.S. Bio-Weapons Continue to Linger On

U.S. Combats Bioweapons Desinformation Pushed by Russia and China

WASHINGTON — Russia launched one of its most incendiary disinformation campaign days ago. Its defense and foreign ministries made statements falsely claiming the Pentagon was funding biological weapons labs in Ukraine. Chinese diplomats and state media repeated conspiracy theories at Beijing news conferences, articles, and on official social media accounts. The Biden White House took the unusual step of …

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Reports of human abuse in Xinjiang

U.N. Claims China May Have Perpetrated ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ in Xinjiang

Minutes before Michelle Bachelet, U.N. high commissar for human rights, was due to depart, the organization’s human right office presented its long-delayed report. GENEVA — The long-awaited report by the United Nations Human Rights Office was released Wednesday. It accused China of serious violations of human rights that “may constitute international crime in particular crimes …

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