China has blocked the export of certain products produced by the Dutch chip company, Nexperia, according to Bloomberg. This is the same company that the Dutch government recently seized from its Chinese parent company to prevent the transfer of what it called “crucial technological knowledge” from leaving the country. This action appears to be retaliatory and highlights the increasingly multi-polar world that is developing under the umbrella of rapid global expansion in AI capabilities, and a rush to secure important strategic chip development resources.
Chinese trade relations with Western nations have been far more fractious in 2025 than in years past. Following increasingly aggressive global trade policies, China has pivoted from integrating with the wider global economy to focusing more on shoring up its own semiconductor development and nearer-to-hand trading partners. Many Western nations have mirrored this in turn, with the Dutch government’s latest actions appearing to be just one more example of nations ensuring their own supply of silicon above almost all else.
Yeah uh the, now deposed, Chinese ceo used Nexperia funds to keep a different company in China afloat … on top of that he kept bringing up ideas to “move all Nexperia company assets & production to China”.
This all besides the other political stormclouds blowing in from the US.
All in all it was a good decision the Dutch government made, they will find a way to produce somewhere in Europe probably.
All in all it was a good decision the Dutch government made
If the roles were reversed, I bet most people around here would be complaining at “Chinese imperialism” or something. But an European country*, from “the West”, part of the “free world”, can do no wrong.
EDIT: spelling
You do know that a lot of what the CEO had been doing is illegal in the Netherlands?
Not only could the Dutch government legally do whatever they want with the company, they could have jailed him for 10 years.
Hwy tankie, how is Winnie these days?
“Everyone that disagrees with me is <some expletive>.”
C’mon, grow up.
When someone naively supporting a military industrial theft attempt of another country’s IP in a growth industry tells someone else to grow up … Is that ironic? Should we call Alanis? Don’t use NorTel-uh, Huawei for that call, naturally.
All this does is make them more dependent on the US; this will only hurt them in the long run.
Dependent on the US for what?
This reads like the Dutch are protecting Dutch interests. Given the Dutch companies are integral to developing top-tier chips, I suspect they are trying to protect that industry and keep it in their country.
Dependency on financing trade in USD, dependency on US fossil fuels, dependecy on proprietary US technology, dependency on the US military-industrial complex, dependecy on US border and surveillance technologies, etc etc.
The US fosters dependency in all its allies to maintain the empire. China, and the BRICS bloc in general, offers an alternative. That’s why the US is forcing all its vassals to turn on China.
You seem to be posing this as if there are only two sides, and that the Dutch (and Europe in general) don’t have their own self interests.
Many policies lately from the EU have been pushing back on both US and Chinese interests.
Have the Dutch seized any US facilities?
Seems to me that Europe is picking its side.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/danish_department_dump_microsoft/
Dutch moving away from US based software companies to have more ownership of the digital infrastructure is pretty similar to locking down more of their hardware infrastructure.
And that was with two seconds of googling.
It is far from clear that dependency on the us is worse than dependency on China. A couple of years ago even suggesting it would be lunacy - it’s only even remotely credible just now.
It’s very obvious that dependency on the US is bad, though. Why not avoid complete dependence on one or the other?
What is causing “complete dependence on the US” here? Taking over one single Chinese company doesn’t do that.
And chipmaking is dominated by the US, China and Taiwan (which is not immune to influence from the other two parties, lol) so how exactly can one avoid dependency on or the other, except by balancing dependency between the two?
If you really think this means “complete dependence” then explain how.
Do you think China will want to keep doing business with someone that steals their shit?
Do you think they will completely stop doing business with someone that steals* their shit
*as much as this can be called theft, something which took place in specific non-arbitrary circumstances, rather than the Dutch government just thinking “I quite fancy that”
The UK undertook a similar action earlier this year when British Steel was threatened with going defunct by its Chinese owners. Business between the UK and China did not collapse as a result.
By realistic: China is continually carrying out low-level hostile actions against other nations - cyberattacks, IP theft, currency manipulation, and also this kind of attempt at industrial subordination. It’s realpolitik, which means that if it gets detected and a credible negative response, their reaction won’t be to cut off all trade; it will be to stop doing deals which they only wanted to do as a way of carrying out this kind of manipulation. If it were to cut off all trade, what you’re saying is that Western countries should roll over and accept abusive practices by China so as to avoid being dependent on the abusive USA. It makes no sense.
If you think that China is not actually doing anything that even deserves a response, then feel free to say so, of course.
Have every product of the world depend on china is significantly worst. It seems everyone started to realise how bad it is and start pulling back. Except US, that maneuver is insane.
Just because shit didn’t happen now doesn’t mean the next in line won’t decide to shit the bed.
No, the US is just pressuring all of its vassals into disinvestment from China to secure its own power. That’s it.
The Netherlands’ move comes after Beijing tightened its restrictions on the export of rare earth elements and magnets Thursday, which could impact Europe’s automotive industry.
to secure its own power
You claim these are US vassal, but then you also said to secure their power. You don’t secure your power with your vassal if you’re already “own” those state.
The US has to constantly reinforce its control over its vassals or they will start thinking about independence.
The US is yanking Europe’s leash to keep them from getting ideas.
For anyone wondering the chinese chips tech is a bit behind, maybe 5-20 years depending on the specific tech, which is similar to America and Russia. Intel if they keep fabs in the U.S would keep the U.S closer to 5 years behind Taiwan and South Korea which isn’t terrible considering moving past 2nm is extremely difficult and it’s not likely that there will be huge improvements in lithography tech in the near future.
“Many Western nations have mirrored this in turn” sure… “china” started this and west “mirrored”
