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India, Japan and Australia have begun discussions on reducing reliance on China

  
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An ICYMI from this week on the three countries set to discuss a trilateral Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI) to reduce dependency on China

  • No date has yet been set for initial negotiations but could come as soon as next week
  • initiative first proposed by Japan
  •  Japan is said to be in favour of launching SCRI by November

China repeats that it firmly opposes US’ suppression of Huawei

  
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Comments by the Chinese foreign ministry

Huawei

This comes after the US moved to cut off Huawei’s supply chain via fresh sanctions that will restrict any foreign semiconductor company from selling chips – developed or produced using US software/technology – to the Chinese company.

The remarks from China today are rather reserved – no specific mention of retaliation but there is anxiety surrounding the situation – but fitting with the tone that both sides are still largely holding off from escalating tensions too much for the time being.
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