US military bans BYD vehicles from strategic air base in Japan

TOKYO: The US military said on Friday it will ban vehicles made by Chinese EV maker BYD from an air base in Japan, saying their presence posed a security risk. The ban will begin at the Kadena Air Base on Japan’s Okinawa island on Monday, the Yonhap newswire reported earlier. The base is a major US air power hub on Japan’s strategic southwest island chain running along the edge of the East China Sea. “These vehicles present an unacceptable and unmitigable risk to our personnel and our mission,”

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