As China pushes to localize chipmaking amid U.S. export controls, developing domestic lithography tools has become a top priority — with ASML’s EUV and DUV systems at the center of its ambitions. Recently, China has reportedly intensified efforts to study the Dutch giant’s DUV machines. According to The National Interest, citing sources, while reverse-engineering ASML’s

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By Jamie McGeever U.S. and world stocks rose on Thursday, boosted by a cooling in U.S.-China trade tensions, while oil prices rocketed 5% after Washington sanctioned two Russian oil giants, raising concern about global supply. More on that below. In my column today, I look at whether the ‘Magnificent 7’ may be about to relinquish

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that China is assisting Russia and has no interest in Ukraine’s victory or Russia’s defeat, emphasizing the lack of ongoing dialogue with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, he said during a press conference on October 23. “We do not have a permanent dialogue with Xi Jinping. There have been conversations, and he said he would not sell weapons to the Russians. I really don’t know anything about arms packages.

ASIA/CHINA – Duan Yijun appointed new Director of the Chinese Department of Religious Affairs Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Today, October 23, Duan Yijun, born in 1967, was appointed the new Director of the National Religious Affairs Administration of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. As part of