SNS: Predicting the Present

In This Issue
Vol. 26 Issue 22

Asia Letter, Q3 2021: Predicting the Present

• Japan Ditches Defense Budget Ceiling
• Japanese People Support Taiwan
• Undiplomatic Language in Manila
• China’s Digital Currency
• China’s B&R, Phase 2
• Chinese Inbound Foreign Investment Up Nearly 40%
• China Leads Wind & Solar Power
• Japan and TSMC Aim for the 2-Nanometer Node
• TSMC Adds Capacity in China
• Apple and TSMC
• South Korea’s $450B Semiconductor Investment
• About Scott Foster

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“As one influential [British] parliamentarian warns, ‘Communist China is bad, Han nationalist China will be worse.'”
– James Forsyth, “Prepare for China’s nationalist turn” (The Spectator, 6/4/21)

Get ready for what has already happened.

“As Li Xing of Aalborg University told the South China Morning Post, ‘While there are people in China who think there are problems in the way China has handled Xinjiang, the moment they hear the BBC say there is ‘genocide’ happening, they become so angry that they lose all will to criticize the Chinese government.'”
– From “What Do Chinese People Think Is Happening in Xinjiang?” (The Diplomat, 5/29/21)

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