Micron Technology, the United States’ largest memory chip maker, has become the first foreign semiconductor company to be put under a cybersecurity review by China.
China was late to embrace the mobile phone, but it is now home to the largest mobile phone market in the world, a booming e-commerce sector and some of the most advanced mobile network infrastructure.
US exports to China increased last year, but the data is ‘misleading’ according to the Peterson Institute of International Economics and the ‘two economies are becoming less directly interdependent’.
Japan and South Korea have agreed to end an almost four-year-old trade dispute over critical materials, as they look to restore ties in the face of shared security threats from North Korea and a more assertive China.