Boris Johnson accused of failing to probe Chinese takeover of Newport Wafer Fab, UK’s biggest chip plant

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been accused of failing to carry out a promised security probe into the controversial takeover of Britain’s largest semiconductor manufacturer by China’s biggest smartphone assembler Wingtech.

Reports emerged last week that the government had quietly approved the sale of the Newport Wafer Fab plant in Wales to Wingtech’s Dutch subsidiary Nexperia. Wingtech, which is based in Zhejiang, is believed to be a third owned by the Chinese Communist Party.