comment: >
  
  Japan is choosing a side
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.