Dazed and confused in Japan

Editor's note:  What scares the west particularly the US and Britain is that Russia is in full industrial military production and the only thing the US can  do is continue with its trade sanctions that only seem to benefit Russia. Russia is in full industrial surge capacity and that really worries the west. Why is Japan now stepping forward for the US announcing export curbs on technology? It is likely the US does not want China or Russia to continue their development of hypersonic weapons and deadly drones. Considering the US lost Africa to the Russians, it means resource theft out of Africa will be cut off from US manufacturers. The US and their vassal state in the Pacific Japan announced their combined efforts to drop $3 billion into the development of a "hypersonic interceptor" to stop Russian hypersonic missiles. Without advanced microprocessors nothing flies and nothing hits its target at hypersonic speed at vertical angles. Japan has a collapsing population, the yen is under assault, there is a rapidly aging population, social and structural problems, 52 percent of Japanese males have never had sex, 80 percent of the population have been Covid injected, Japan is a tax regime that continues increasing and Japan is going to drop $1 billion for more weapons? How will this help the average Japanese while thousands of Chinese tourists converge in Tokyo every month?

US and Japan to Spend $3 Billion on New Hypersonic Weapon Interceptor
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Source: Sputnik

Japan's Proposed Export Curbs Will Cause Big Impact, Undermine Global Supply Chain - Official

May 4, 2024

Japan's proposed export curbs on corresponding technologies and products will significantly affect the normal trade between Chinese and Japanese companies, undermining the stability of the global supply chain, a spokesperson of China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said on Monday.

The move by the Japanese side will "harm others without benefiting itself," the spokesperson said. The remarks were made in response to the Japanese government's proposed export controls on four technologies related to semiconductors or quantum computing, Reuters reported on Monday.

Japan proposed last week to require companies to notify the government before exporting advanced materials and equipment that could be used for military applications, Reuters reported, citing Nikkei. Semiconductors are a highly globalized industry that, after decades of development, has formed an interdependent industrial structure. This structure is the result of market forces and the choices of enterprises, the spokesperson said.

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Recently, some countries have frequently broadened the concept of national security and abused export control measures, artificially dividing the global semiconductor market - this seriously deviates from the principles of free trade and multilateral trade rules, severely impacting the stability of global industrial and supply chains, the spokesperson noted.

For some time now, certain countries have frequently sought to broaden the concept of national security, abusing export control measures to artificially divide the global semiconductor market. Such moves seriously deviated from the principles of free trade and multilateral trade rules, and severely affected the stability of global industrial and supply chains, the MOFCOM spokesperson said.

There are intensified attempts by the Japanese government seeking "decoupling" or "de-risking" from China, citing so-called supply chains risks. Semiconductor sector has been a focus of such politically driven attempts.

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