Saturday’s Nikkei wrote that two senior LDP officials held virtual talks with their counterparts from Taiwan’s ruling Progressive Democratic Party on Friday, saying that the two sides agreed to cooperate to build resilient semiconductor supply chains. The LDP officials reportedly pledged Japan’s greater financial support to encourage Taiwanese firms to build computer chip plants in Japan. The daily said the LDP is keen to use the “2+2” framework between the ruling parties as a platform for deepening bilateral partnership since strengthening governmental exchanges is difficult under the “one-China” policy.