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UK Business Secretary  a National Security Review of the acquisition by Chinese semiconductor maker Wingtech through a Dutch subsidiary of a semiconductor factory in Wales. The factories in Wales are becoming a hub of the UK semiconductor industry with research and manufacture of compound semiconductors, which enable electric batteries for cars to get more mileage. Nine Congressmen in the US wrote to the Biden administration about the acquisition and its dangers for the UK and US semiconductor industry's technology being shifted to China. The head of the UK Foreign Affairs committee in parliament also alerted the UK government of the risks involved. The UK government has passed a law that allows it to retroactively cancel deals that are considered a risk  security. Bush and Obama administrations there was a transfer of western technology through acquisitions of this type and not much was done by the governments in Europe and the US. This enabled China to acquire western technology using its state  which had better access to financing for acquiring key western technologies. It was only under the Trump administration that 2 decades after it started this process was given attention. It was ignored in the same manner that the Germans under chancellors Schroeder and Merkel allowed Russian energy companies to dominate the energy sector even to the point of acquiring ownership of the storage of energy on German soil. That dependence allowed by German according to the Manchester Guardian in a  is now unwinding with the brave and unceasing efforts of Economy Minister  who is now the most popular person in Germany for making this  correction in the midst of the Russian invasion of Ukraine with China's support

UK Business Secretary  a National Security Review of the acquisition by Chinese semiconductor maker Wingtech through a Dutch subsidiary of a semiconductor factory in Wales. The factories in Wales are becoming a hub of the UK semiconductor industry with research and manufacture of compound semiconductors, which enable electric batteries for cars to get more mileage. Nine Congressmen in the US wrote to the Biden administration about the acquisition and its dangers for the UK and US semiconductor industry's technology being shifted to China. The head of the UK Foreign Affairs committee in parliament also alerted the UK government of the risks involved. The UK government has passed a law that allows it to retroactively cancel deals that are considered a risk national security.the Bush and Obama administrations there was a transfer of western technology through acquisitions of this type and not much was done by the governments in Europe and the US. This enabled China to acquire western technology using its state subsidized  which had better access to financing for acquiring key western technologies. It was only under the Trump administration that 2 decades after it started in this process was given attention. It was ignored in the same manner that the Germans under chancellors Schroeder and Merkel allowed Russian energy companies to dominate the energy sector in  even to the point of acquiring ownership of the storage of energy on German soil. That dependence allowed by German according to the Manchester Guardian in a  is now unwinding with the brave and unceasing efforts of Economy Minister  who is now the most popular person in Germany for making this  correction in the midst of the Russian invasion of Ukraine with China's support.

 

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