With a waiver allowing alloy of Chinese origins to continue to be used on F-35 fighter jets, the US military has exposed its dependence on Chinese rare-earth products, and China can opt to limit the export of such strategic resources to safeguard its national security, analysts said on Sunday.
Taipei, Sept. 9 (CNA) Yang Chin-long (楊金龍), governor of Taiwan's central bank, has forecast that growth in the country's consumer price index (CPI) will fall below the 2 percent mark, an alert level set by the bank, in 2023 at a time when local economic growth moderates.