China calls on Japan to lift chip export restrictions.

China's Commerce Minister Wang Wentao has called on Japan to halt semiconductor export controls, which he says "seriously violated" international economic and trade rules. Japan, along with the Netherlands, agreed to match US export controls that will limit the sale of some chipmaking tools to China, and has placed restrictions on the export of 23 types of semiconductor manufacturing equipment to its neighbour. The US imposed the restrictions last year aiming to slow China's work on supercomputers that can be used to develop nuclear weapons systems and artificial intelligence systems.