Reports of Huawei Technologies’ chip breakthrough are “incredibly disturbing,” says Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. Huawei, a Chinese multinational tech giant, stunned global markets in September when it unveiled a significant 7-nanometer semiconductor breakthrough that ostensibly defied U.S. sanctions. The smartphone chip—named the Kirin 9000S—integrates the process and components for 5G connectivity. This has Huawei’s new Mate 60 smartphones to record download speeds linked to 5G. The chip was manufactured by China’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), a firm placed on a U.S. trade blacklist called the Entity List in 2020. Huawei was added to it in 2019. Companies on this list are prohibited from purchasing and using U.S.-based technology....Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/huaweis-chip-breakthrough-incredibly-disturbing-commerce-secretary-raimondo-5504780
WASHINGTON—China’s communist leadership will invade Taiwan if it believes uncoerced unification with the island is not viable by mid-century, according to experts. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) must believe there is a chance to unify Taiwan with the mainland if it is to refrain from starting a war for the island, said Chad Sbragia, a research analyst at the Institute for Defense Analyses think tank. “It’s up to [China] to determine what the degree of unification or the progress toward unification is. But, absent that, it looks like conflict is extremely likely,” Mr. Sbragia said during an Oct. 5 forum at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank....
Finding a home to buy in Japan has become part of the travel agenda of many affluent Chinese visitors, according to a real estate platform serving the Chinese community in Japan. This has occurred as Japan becomes the top choice for outbound travel among Chinese tourists during the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 8-day long National Day holiday, which began on Sept. 29. Well-to-do Chinese visitors used to buy properties as investments but are now buying properties as their primary residence, according to Shenjumiausuan, the biggest platform service that provides Japanese real estate information, mainly to customers in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong....
Canadian universities are continuing research collaborations with Chinese institutions despite government efforts to impose stronger measures against potential technology transfer to the regime and address related national security concerns, the House of Commons science committee heard. Jim Hinton, an intellectual property lawyer and assistant professor at Western University, emphasized this finding during his testimony at the House Standing Committee on Science and Research on Oct. 4. “I discovered that as recently as a few weeks ago, there have been new patent applications published, listing Huawei as owner, with Canadian university researchers as inventors, including those from the University of Toronto, UBC, Queens, Ottawa, McMaster, and Western,” he said....