Chinese Spies, Smuggled Drugs Fuel Takaichi’s Security Push
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Industrial espionage around AI chips and IP—Chinese spies, Nvidia GPU smuggling, cross-border fentanyl flows—means national security and AI supply chains are now formally entangled in Japan’s policy agenda. Operators with exposure to Japan or sensitive compute should assume tighter export controls, compliance checks, and incident reporting over the next 6–18 months.
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