Russia-Ukraine conflict a threat to Taiwanese microchips

Today's headlines: India bans 54 more Chinese apps. Japanese beer giant abandons Myanmar. Internet under regime control in Cambodia. Palestinian man dies after clashes with Israeli soldiers. Kyrgyz farmers risk being left landless.

TAIWAN

Techcet reports that tensions between Ukraine and Russia threaten Taiwan's microchip industry: Taipei is the world's leading producer of the precious technological components. The risk is that a conflict between Moscow and Kiev will block the export of palladium, neon and C4F6 from the two countries, which are essential for chip production.

CHINA-INDIA

Delhi banned 54 Chinese web applications for national security reasons. In June 2021, the ban had affected 59 Chinese-made apps, including the popular TikTok and WeChat. Since the border tensions with Beijing in May 2020, the Indian government has so far banned 329 Chinese apps.

JAPAN-MYANMAR

Japanese multinational beer company Kirin has decided to withdraw from the Burmese market. The Japanese company had started practices to reduce its presence in Myanmar immediately after the military coup on February 1, 2021.

CAMBODIA

The Cambodian government put the internet under control by channelling all web traffic to a single point of entry. Modelled on Beijing's virtual "Great Wall", the system adopted by Phnom Penh will allow Hun Sen's regime to further silence opposition and dissent.

ISRAEL-PALESTINE

Israeli security forces killed a Palestinian yesterday during clashes in the occupied territories of the West Bank. This was revealed today by the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The military were beginning to demolish the home of a Palestinian accused of killing an Israeli citizen.

RUSSIA-GREECE

Metropolitan Grigorios (Papatomas), titular of Peristerios in western Macedonia of the Greek Orthodox Church, proposed to deprive the Moscow Patriarchate of its autocephaly for five years because of its schism with the Patriarchate of Alexandria for the African Churches, and to reduce the Russian exarch for Africa, Leonid (Gorbačev), to a lay state.

KYRGYZSTAN

Kyrgyz peasants risked being left without land because of a new government decision, according to which large agricultural cooperatives would receive several plots of land for rent. Small farmers will be left with only the crumbs, and many will be forced to emigrate.

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