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context: Japan's government will begin restricting exports of advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China in Spring after it amends a foreign exchange law to allow the change, Kyodo News reported on Saturday.
  The new regulation will not mention China specifically in a bid to reduce the risk of retaliation by Beijing, the report said, without saying where it obtained the information. >
  
  Here comes Pooh’s Weather Balloon. >
  
  Oh bother. >
  
  Japan is choosing a side >
  
  Let's hope China doesn't retaliate like they did with the visa situation. >
  
  Don't remember, sarcasm or not? >
  
  So I guess sarcasm? >
  
  Maybe all that time that China perfected it's ability to produce cheap stuff was just because of a spelling mistake? >
  
  China will go ballistic over this. >
  
  51st state of America right here >
  
  Oh yeah, because Japan and China had such great relations before Japan became a US ally. >
  
  Yeah they've got centuries of bad blood. Plus Japan genocided and experimented on them in the 30s and 40s and still refuses to admit it happened. They've got plenty of reasons to hate China without us >
  
  Japan did all that stuff to China, so Japan has enough reason to hate China without us? Methinks you got something backwards. >
  
  no, the point literally is: regardless of whether Japan is a U.S. ally today, they would still hate the Chinese. Japan's animosity towards China is rooted in a long-standing history of conflict and mistrust between the two countries, which predates any U.S. involvement. >
  
  I'm not familiar with history as far as when nations were formed, but doesnt it pre-date the us itself? >
  
  Yeah I believe this has been going on for several centuries >
  
  Not cool Japan. >
  
  Very cool