Japan moves to block Makino machine tool takeover on security concerns Recommendation marks first use of stricter foreign investment rules

This is a first (literally): Japan moves to block Makino machine tool takeover on security concerns
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This! Is! Canberra!

Doing しりとり and Siri came out with プラザ合意! When work and private life collide.

Ah yes, the “postwar policies” from 1967.

Thanks.

What dataset is this from? Thanks.

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Toyota roars past BYD in Japan EV sales with $6,000 more in subsidies

New incentives for vehicles with domestically produced batteries to expand gap
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Yeah, that indeed doesn’t seem accurate.

It’s not totally closed. Just drastically lower than before: bsky.app/profile/pear...

These look like very generous replacement costs.

Didn’t we fight a war to keep the “Bavarian Power Kraut” out of this country?

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Seppo is learning about the servo in the arvo.

毎回一瞬混乱する．
オージーがどっちだっけ？

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Japan hints at SDF dispatch for minesweeping in Hormuz after cease-fire Foreign minister said the country's technology is among the world's top

Japan hints at SDF dispatch for minesweeping in Hormuz after cease-fire
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Thank you.

And she clearly has an affinity for the island too. Which could likely now influence policy.
But I don’t know if there’s a decided end point that people are aiming toward.

I don’t think it’s accurate to say that these actions hint at de jure recognition of Taiwanese independence.
There’s clearly been a change in views towards Taiwan and China and a greater willingness to be seen publicly talking to Taiwan. That precedes Takaichi.

Lovely last full day in Beijing.

Perfect day to stop and get my favourite food here - a Jianbing from the caravan outside Fuchengmen station. No idea how many of these I have eaten, but so good.

But that doesn’t mean that she isn’t looking to chart a different course in Taiwan policy. Or that Japan’s government was making gradual changes to that policy even before she was PM.
(That’s how China sees it, BTW. As the latest in a long line of intentional steps.)

I’ve been going back and forth on this.
I honestly don’t think that her Diet statement was intentional. If you watch the video it feels like a slip. Or a “saying the quiet part out loud” cause it’s the end of a long day.

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Sure. And the reaction (or lack or one really) in Japan to Takaichi’s comment shows indicate how that debate might go now.
Or maybe people really did understand what they were agreeing to then, even if the debate was constrained.

I can’t imagine it would have been good for the gradually improving China ties to have had a clearer debate in 2015.

Yeah, similar enough to my view. Although the “strategic ambiguity” part of the policy has shifted.

What are your views on the intelligence report’s finding?

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Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?