Chinese Spies, Smuggled Drugs Fuel Takaichi’s Security Push
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]