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The Communist Party of China, the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, the regular meeting, and the trilateral summit between Korea, China, and Japan have an ‘advantage’ The Communist Party of China and the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan have restored regular talks and are showing an advantage in the trilateral summit between Korea, China and Japan. Japan's NHK reported on the 22nd that a high-..

Taiwan Chinese chip manufacturing company relocates to Japan, Korea is ‘excluded’ from being a ‘semiconductor powerhouse’ Taiwanese and Chinese chip manufacturers have established production facilities in Japan, excluding Korea from making Japan a semiconductor powerhouse. In the past two years, at least nine Taiwanese semiconductor companies have set up factories or expanded operations in Japan..

President Yoon Seok-yeol expanded the ideological system of sharing liberal values of “Japan is a close neighbor and North Korea is an enemy” in the defense white paper earlier, saying “the March 1st Movement is a freedom movement.” President Yoon said, "The March First Independence Movement 104 years ago was an independence movement to establish a free democratic country where the people are th..

The trade deficit recorded a record high of $12.7 billion in January, with the 11th consecutive month of trade deficit concentrated in neighboring countries. South Korea's export decline is China's third consecutive month of decline since October last year, Japan's export decline for 9 consecutive months since April last year, and Taiwan's export record of 3 consecutive months of decline since S..

Bloomberg reported on the 28th that the United States has reached an agreement to limit exports of advanced semiconductor chip manufacturing equipment to the Netherlands and Japan. A report on talks between the U.S. and the two equipment-exporting countries said the U.S. adopted some export control policies last October, including Dutch ASML Holding NV and Japan's Nikon Corp and Tokyo Electron L..

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan unveiled a project on the 22nd to produce hydrogen by water electrolysis with American companies in Texas and Louisiana, USA, and produce synthetic LNG from factory discharged CO2 and hydrogen-bonded methane and transport it to Japan. The synthetic LNG project unveiled for the first time at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry meeting i..

As the US pressured Middle Eastern countries to increase oil production, OPEC member countries agreed to increase production, and Russia and Japan escalated a gas war. The decline in oil consumption has turned to $90 a barrel this year amid concerns about a recession in the US economy, and the conflict over the introduction of a cap on the price of Russian crude oil has begun. The Washington Pos..

Presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung tried to make domestic conservatives out of a sense of wariness against “Japan, an enemy nation,” while candidate Yoon Seok-yeol attempted to make the US Republican party’s arms-strengthening conservatives “reliance on Japan for an external strategic monopoly.” At a foreign press conference on the 25th, Democratic Party candidate Lee referred to Japan as 'the..

As imports from Korea and Japan rose concurrently, the import growth rate in August significantly outpaced imports and exports. South Korea's exports in August were $53.23 billion, an increase of 34.9% from the same period of the previous year, and imports were $51.56 billion, up 44.0%, a surplus for the 16th consecutive month. In the early to mid-August (days 1-20), exports surged 37.0% year-on..

With the expansion of multilateral security between diplomatic and military (2+2) in the Biden administration, security contention in Northeast Asia began to push out the summit system. South Korea agreed to resume security talks with China on the 3rd, and Japan began military exchanges with Germany following Indonesia, opening up the European Union's access road to Northeast Asia. The 2+2 dialo..