{"id":8872,"date":"2021-07-21T09:29:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T13:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=8872"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:46:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:46:31","slug":"u-k-ministers-stopped-funding-chip-factory-after-china-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/u-k-ministers-stopped-funding-chip-factory-after-china-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. Ministers Stopped Funding Chip Factory After China Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>British ministers have reportedly capped taxpayer-funded payments to Britain&#8217;s biggest microchip factory after it was sold to a Chinese technology company, according to The Telegraph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.K. Research and Investment (UKRI) has suspended funding for Newport Wafer Fab on government orders after it was sold to Nexperia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In early July, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he did not want to drive Chinese investment out of the U.K. because of &#8220;anti-China spirit&#8221; over the sale of the semiconductor maker.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/uk\/british-ministers-cut-off-funding-chip-factory-after-sale-china-telegraph-2021-07-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British ministers have reportedly stopped funding Britain&#8217;s largest chip factor after it was sold to a Chinese company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-public-sector"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8872"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8910,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872\/revisions\/8910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}