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Chinese Spies, Smuggled Drugs Fuel Takaichi’s Security Push

  • Bloomberg News--Financial Post
  • published date: 2026-06-28 23:07:43 UTC

Chinese spies stealing Japanese industrial secrets in boardrooms. Chip smugglers ferrying Nvidia’s prized artificial intelligence semiconductors via Japan. Drug gangs quietly slipping fentanyl across Japan’s borders to a US opioid crisis.

When seeking to strengthen supply-chain resilience and information security, we must not forget the existence of China, Takaichi wrote in a 2024 book titled Japans Economic Security: Protecting the N… [+3531 chars]