China Urges Japan Not to Back US Chip Export Restrictions as Washington Tries to Rally Allies

The U.S. has been trying to rally key countries in the semiconductor supply chain around its chip export restrictions. Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang urged Japan not to support U.S. curbs on China’s semiconductor industry, as Washington continues to try to rally nations behind its chip export restrictions. “The U.S. has used bullying tactics to brutally suppress Japan’s semiconductor industry, and now the same tactics are being used again against China. What you do not want, do not do to others,” Qin said to his Japanese counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi on Sunday, according to a CNBC translation of a Chinese foreign…