The West can not survive without Chinese goodwill.
Chinese semiconductor industry
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Koxia spun from Toshiba is a huge player in the memory market. A buyout would see an American consolidation and almost monopoly in the crucial sector with the other big player big Seagate.
Now what has it got anything to do with China?
The companies have operations in China and thus have to notify seek Beijing's approval.
Dam the long arm of US lawfare.
I'm a recent fan of GEELY after testing its COOLRAY SPORT crossover, what a car! Now with the news below I had become an avid fan to a fanatical follower. It had evoke the same feeling I have with Huawei and BYD. The three CEO had the same background , they never studied in any Western education institution and that for me is a good sign, it won't ruin their business with western business philosophy of easy money and financialization. With investment focus on its core competency and new tech like EV. Diversifying to semiconductor is one way of achieving vertical integration of its production process and thus attaining self sufficiency ( sanction proof). Hope they also venture in Fabrication of Chips like what Huawei and BYD is doing that will make my day!!!!
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Geely has its privately owned university in Beijing and I had the pleasure of meeting their HK-based CEO over 10 years ago, even back then they had big ideas. Having not studied at western universities and therefore not corrupted by stock-buyback-boost-quarterly-return-financialization short-termism, they can really focus on strategic moves and the long term.
In 2019, Japan required that South Korea apply for particular licenses, removing from among a list of exempted nations, for the purchase of semiconductor manufacturing materials, namely hydrogen fluoride for etching, photoresists utilized in UV light exposure, and fluorinated polyamides. Going through the process licensing processing increased the cost to Korean companies such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.
Japan did so in response to a ruling by South Korean Courts that a number of Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, pay compensation to the victims of forced labour during Japan's occupation of the Korean peninsula during the first half of the 20th century. Japan and South Korea have many disputes with regards to history, territory, Japan's colonization of the Korean peninsula, Japan's use of Korean comfort women etc. During Park Geun Hye's presidency, Japan and South Korea signed an agreement that "irreversibly" resolved the issue of comfort women, but the Moon Jae In administration brought up the issue again.
In December 2018, there was the radar incident in the Sea of Japan (East Sea) between a South Korean in which Japan accused a South Korean destroyer, which was present as part of a mission to rescue a distressed North Korean fishing vessel, of aiming its fire control radar at a Japanese maritime patrol aircraft, which South denied, saying that it had not radiated the Japanese aircraft with a fire control radar.
This incident, among a number of long standing disputes, were part of the reason as to why Japan placed sanctions on South Korea.
Can someone with a chemistry background tell me how difficult it is to produce these chemicals? Why are countries like Germany and Japan so strong in the chemical industries? Why did a strong industrial nation like South Korea suffer from these chemicals export restrictions and could they find a way to produce these chemicals themselves?
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