Top U.S. lawmakers have urged Japan to take measures to restrict Japanese companies from selling semiconductor chip-making equipment to China in an official letter in recent days.
John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) expressed their concerns over “the flow of Japanese semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China” in the letter to Japanese Ambassador to the United States Shigeo Yamada on Oct. 15. They warned that if Japan fails to take action, Washington may put restrictions on the Japanese equipment companies and ban them from receiving U.S. semiconductor subsidies….
US Lawmakers Urge Japan to Curb Export of Chip-Making Equipment to China
