Taiwan to restrict tech companies' sales of China assets

Regulators will be able to block deals involving sensitive tech under new rules

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President Tsai Ing-wen's government has been tightening its screening of Chinese investments in Taiwanese companies to protect sensitive technologies. (Source photo by AP)

LAULY LI and CHENG TING-FANG, Nikkei staff writers

TAIPEI -- Taiwanese regulators will soon have new powers to block domestic tech companies from selling off their subsidiaries or other assets in China, the latest move by Taipei to prevent the leak of sensitive technologies, including semiconductors, to the mainland.

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