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President Joe Biden issued an executive order on Wednesday that appears to restrict American investment in Chinese companies in the semiconductor, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) industries.

French magistrates have filed preliminary charges against two Chinese citizens and two others in an investigation of a leading chip supplier.

Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) has introduced a plan to end the United States’ decades-long, job-killing free trade status with China as multinational corporations in the semiconductor industry plead with the federal government to keep open their access to the Chinese market. 

Taiwan-based tech giant Foxconn announced Monday its withdrawal from a $19.5 billion joint semiconductor manufacturing deal with Indian metal and energy company Vedanta.

The government of Taiwan announced on Wednesday that it will open a new representative office in the financial hub of Mumbai, establishing its third diplomatic office in India.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen met with Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng on Monday, ahead of Yellen’s scheduled trip to Beijing this weekend. According to Chinese state media, Xie strove to send a “clear and positive message” that China is ready to improve bilateral relations.

A sealed indictment in South Korea, revealed to the public for the first time by Reuters on Tuesday, accuses former Samsung executive Choi Jinseog of stealing company secrets from his old employer so he could help Taiwan-based Foxconn build a chip factory in China.

President Joe Biden is greenlighting South Korean and Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturers to continue expanding their operations in China thanks to exemptions rewarded to various companies by the administration. 

UK catching up with efforts by Western allies seeking to reduce reliance on Asian production of the computer chips.

The UK and Japan are set to sign a new China-bashing defensive pact aimed at securing the Indo-Pacific, reports on Thursday suggest.

The Chinese government on Tuesday asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) to crack down on U.S. policies intended to revitalize the domestic computer chip industry.

President Joe Biden’s administration is setting up a network of advanced computer-chip facilities to boost domestic manufacturing. 

China represents an “epoch-defining challenge” to the West as it becomes a “technological superpower”, a UK security chief warned.

Beijing Academy of Military Sciences researcher Zhao Xun published an article in Chinese Communist Party media on Monday that warned China’s current model of technology and weapons development is “unsustainable” due to Western sanctions, so China must become more self-reliant by funding more research and reducing bureaucratic red tape.

The Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia reported on Thursday that the government of China is considering banning the export of technology used to create rare-earth fueled high-performance magnets, often used in electric vehicles and other advanced technology.

President Joe Biden was caught in another hot mic moment highlighted by the Republican National Committee (RNC) on social media, as the president’s handler can be heard giving the 80-year-old instructions on what to do and where to go during a recent visit to North Carolina.

The government of the Netherlands is joining a U.S.-led effort to restrict the export of semiconductor chips to China, a campaign aimed at slowing the growth of the communist country’s military.

There has been a new twist in an ongoing, multibillion-dollar patent battle between Intel and semiconductor patent holder VLSI , with anonymous allegations being mailed to the House Oversight Committee regarding Intel’s interactions with the Patent Trial Appeals Board (PTAB).

During an interview aired on Thursday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) stated that even though there are incentives to produce chips in the United States under the CHIPS and Science Act that he co-wrote, “a

Chip giant Intel is reportedly planning to scrap thousands of jobs, likely in an attempt to cut fixed costs and deal with a slowdown in the computer market, Bloomberg reports.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News exclusively on Thursday as she was en route to Taiwan for a meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is “emboldened” right now and that the United States has to step to stop them.

Apple reportedly instructed its suppliers on Friday to ensure all components made in Taiwan are labeled “Taiwan, China” or “Chinese Taipei,” in accordance with speech codes enforced by the tyranny in Beijing.

During an interview aired on Tuesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo responded to concerns that the CHIPS Act semiconducter chip manufacturing bill isn’t paid for and would increase loans from China in the name of getting away from dependency

Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), recently bought up to $5 million in stocks in a semiconductor company, the Daily Caller reported. 

Vedanta — an Indian oil, gas, and metals conglomerate — plans to finalize a $20 billion deal with the Taiwanese microchip maker Foxconn by June to produce semiconductors within India starting in 2024, India’s Swarajya magazine reported on Thursday.

Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection Chairman Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) voted for legislation that gave Intel billions in subsidies shortly after his family purchased over $250,000 worth of the company’s stock. 

Toyota Motor Corp. will suspend the operation of 14 production lines across eight factories in Japan for nearly one week later this month as part of the Japanese automaker’s effort to cope with a microchip shortage caused by a month-plus Chinese coronavirus lockdown of Shanghai, China, Kyodo News reported Wednesday.

The sale of the UK’s largest semiconductor factory to a firm controlled by the Communist China has not properly been investigated, claim MPs.

The British government has reportedly approved the sale of the UK’s largest microchip factory to a firm tied to the Chinese Communist Party.

Chinese Communist Party authorities have seemingly prioritized microchips over hungry citizens this week, according to two reports published by the state-run Global Times on Tuesday, which reveal the Party ensured semiconductor production continued unabated in Shanghai during its latest lockdown to contain the Chinese coronavirus while simultaneously failing to provide sufficient food to residents of northeastern China’s Changchun city during its own lockdown.

China should pay the U.S. “reparations” for injuries and deaths caused by COVID-19 and drug abuse related to fentanyl, David McCormick said.

Intel announced it intends to create a “leading-edge semiconductor fab mega-site in Germany” to move supply chains back to the West.

An electricity blackout that affected nearly 5.5 million households and businesses across Taiwan on Thursday was caused by a “human error” that resulted in an equipment malfunction at a power plant managed by the state-run Taiwan Power Co. (Taipower), Taiwan government officials announced late Thursday local time.

The European Union has announced new plans to combat its reliance on foreign bodies — such as Communist China — in regards to microchip manufacturing, including pumping an extra €15 billion into the essential sector.

Ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) slammed President Biden’s policy statement on the Democrats “counter China bill” for omitting the word “China.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced a nearly $10 million investment in semiconductor production for the state of Florida to combat the United States’ reliance on China and other foreign countries for vital supplies, parts, and materials.