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5月17日，在两天访华行程即将结束之时，俄罗斯总统普京说，占领乌克兰第二大城市哈尔科夫不是莫斯科目前计划的一部分。    The Chips Act is "a pre-cursor to further escalations with China in order to flip this dynamic, knowing that the US will not be able to adequately defend Taiwan,” US-based financial commentator Tom Luongo tells Sputnik, referring to US-Chinese tensions over Taipei, which escalated after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island last week.,"The US will defend Taiwan through a number of hybrid war tactics, including sanctions and tariffs as well as monetary policy, while simultaneously making like they can and will defend Taiwan militarily. For now, Taiwan is important, this bill is saying we need to ensure it is less important. This vulnerability, in my opinion, was deliberately pursued by forces within our government to lead us to this unfolding crisis. We always wanted a casus belli against China. Taiwan is the perfect trip wire for further war," Luongo explains.,He ventured to say that “it may even have been the reason” Pelosi visited Taiwan “to ratchet up the tension and ensure the bill’s passage,” adding that “at this point, things are so murky, trying to divine what anyone’s motivations are on Capitol Hill, other than surviving the mid-terms, is a fool’s errand.”,Earlier this week, US President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan bill that aims to boost the country’s competitiveness with China by investing $280 billion in domestic semiconductor manufacturing and science research.,Speaking at the signing ceremony outside the White House on Tuesday, Biden claimed that “the future of the chip industry is going to be made in America,” adding, “Today is a day for builders. Today America is delivering.”,Dubbed the Chips and Science Act, the bill includes more than $52 billion for US companies producing computer chips, as well as billions more in tax credits to encourage investment in semiconductor manufacturing.,WorldUS New Chips Law Will Undermine Global Supply Chains: Chinese Foreign MinistryYesterday, 12:00 GMT,The document also stipulates allocating tens of billions of dollars to fund scientific research and development and to spur the innovation and development of other US technology.,"Trade tensions with China and the war hysteria [around] Taiwan will make US susceptible to disruptions in chip availability that can have wide ranging disturbances across industries," says Dr. Sunita Raju, a professor of economics and Chairperson of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. "While the CHIPS Act is an effort to maintain technology leadership position of US, it is also an effort to stem the US lagging behind Taiwan, Korea and China in recent times in chip manufacturing.",The Chips Act is "a clear departure for US industrial policy to provide subsidies and incentives to a specific industry. The compulsion now is driven by geopolitical tensions (US-China trade war, China-Taiwan-US confrontation), strategic significance of chips in manufacturing across industries (particularly post COVID) and its applications for defence and national security concerns," says Dr. Raju.,The professor explains that the purpose is to attact investment from major chip manufacturers and establish semiconductor fabrication plants in the United States.,"The 'Fab less' model that the US followed in the past made US gain a dominant market position in the R&D, IP and design capability of the value chain of semiconductor industry but resulted in less than 12% in wafer fabrication (capital intensive) and 2% in Assembling, Packaging &Testing (Capital & labour intensive) (SIA, 2021). US share in global installed capacity of semiconductor industry is less than 12%, while the global sale of semiconductor sales (Fab less plus IDMs) is 48%. As a result, growth in installed capacity of US was outpaced by Asian countries," Dr. Raju explains.,Modi Vows to Develop India as Chip Hub as Gov't Sets $300Bn Target in Electronics Manufacturing 4 July, 20:01 GMT,Meanwhile, Luongo says that the bill “will have an effect on semiconductor production” in the US, but “the question is whether it is cost-effective to actually do it.”,“It was a strategic mistake to offshore all of our chip production. For everything outside of the bleeding edge in power management – phones, data centers, etc. – older technology is just fine. Remember that most of these big chips are designed here in the US, manufacturing happens overseas. […] The production of most of your iPhone happens here in the US, the assembly of the parts happens in China. This point is lost in all of the noise,” he points out.,Luongo describes the bill as “just a start” in terms of the US’ effort to get the better of China in the race to dominate the high-tech sector.,“The turnaround will take time certainly, there is no easy fix here (…) If the US is serious about gaining real market share and competitiveness in manufacturing, then a lot of roadblocks currently in place will need to end,” the commentator notes.,He went on to argue that the global market for chips currently looks “the way it does because of US technology barriers through trade deals, sanctions and the like.” Luongo adds that US foreign policy “will now hinge on continuing to try and delay and slow down the rise of competition” and that “being pushed out of markets like central Asia and falling behind in Africa, etc. isn’t a good sign.”,According to him, “the real problem now is that the US is going hyper-belligerent to maintain its control when it should have looked inward to solve its internal problems years ago. [Former US President Donald] Trump tried and failed to make meaningful reforms.”。

据俄罗斯国家通讯社——俄新社报道，普京周五在中国举行的新闻发布会上表示，在乌克兰哈尔科夫地区行动的俄罗斯军队可能会被迫建立一个“免疫区”，以加强俄罗斯自身的安全。

根据国际媒体的此前解读，普京所说的“免疫区”或”卫生区“是指军事意义上的缓冲区或安全区。

就在普京发表此番言论之际，乌克兰军队正在奋力阻止俄罗斯军队在该国东北部的哈尔科夫地区夺取更多领土的最新努力。

乌克兰总统泽连斯基周五早前告诉记者，在俄罗斯军队向哈尔科夫地区境内推进10公里后，乌军驻防部队已使哈尔科夫周围的局势稳定下来。

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乌克兰公共广播公司Suspine报道称，哈尔科夫周五的空袭警报持续了16个半小时以上。这标志着自2022年2月俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰以来，有记录的持续时间最长的空袭警报。

俄罗斯国防部周五宣布，他们在本周的攻势中已经占领了乌克兰东北部哈尔科夫地区的12个定居点，还强调说他们正在“继续深入”乌克兰的深处。

与此同时，为削弱俄军在哈尔科夫地区的进攻潜力，乌克兰军队持续向俄军后方的供应线与保障设施发动远程袭击。俄罗斯当局周五表示，乌克兰无人机的大规模袭击导致俄罗斯一家大型炼油厂起火，并导致克里米亚最大城市塞瓦斯托波尔停电。

俄罗斯国家通讯社援引紧急服务机构的话报道，周五，俄罗斯南部城市Mineralnye Vody的一个机场在施工期间起火。

塔斯社称消防队正在赶往现场。俄罗斯电报频道分享的图片显示，航站大楼冒出滚滚浓烟。

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