Recently, the trade war between China and the United States can be said to have suddenly begun in full swing.
Looking back at this round of Sino-US game.
First, the United States has repeatedly ignored the sincerity of China and the results of the Sino-U.S. negotiations, and has repeatedly introduced various measures to maliciously suppress China's "Lazare" Chinese enterprises, ultimately triggering Chinese counter-reaction.
Subsequently, the United States became furious, not only threatening to impose additional 100% tariffs, but also removing details of millions of China electronic products from its main online retail website.
The reason is still the so-called “national security,” which is disgusting.
Just the same week, the Dutch government in far-off Europe took an action that the industry called a “crawl”.
Recently, it was revealed that the Dutch government had imposed a global operation freeze on Anshi Semiconductor, a subsidiary of a Chinese company. The Chinese CEO was dismissed and 99% of the shares were directly forcibly entrusted.
Behind the seemingly violent combined kick, in fact, is the hysteria after the U.S. side was repressed by China.
However, this hegemonic pressure logic cannot force China to make concessions.
And the Trump administration’s strategy towards China is always swinging between “extreme pressure” and “will to negotiate.”
While announcing a 100% tariff, his deputy Vance cried through Fox News, saying that Trump is willing to be a "rational negotiator" if China "maintains reason."
This high level of pressure, while thinking about the negotiation approach, fully demonstrates that the United States is hurt by China's counter-repression, but the Chinese side has no way to take the status quo.
What is even more ironic is that on the one hand, US officials declared that "all Americans are ready for a full-scale trade war," but on the other hand, they tempered their tone when pressed by reporters, saying that "unless the situation requires it, the United States has no intention of fighting a trade war with China."
This forward and back contradiction exposes the chaos of U.S. strategic decisions.
As for the Dutch government’s implementation of global operations freeze on the basis of unnecessary “national security” on a Chinese-owned enterprise that operates normally, it is essentially an excessive intervention driven by geopolitical bias.
This "open robbery" exposed the robber logic of Western countries in the semiconductor field: when it was impossible to curb China's technological development through normal commercial competition, it would not hesitate to tear off the disguise of market economy and contract spirit.
In the face of the bottomless suppression of the United States, China's position has always been firm and consistent, that is, to fight, and we will resolutely accompany it to the end.
China's counterattack is to use rare earth as a blade and market as a shield, precisely striking the soft rib of hegemonic logic.
On October 9, the Ministry of Commerce of China issued a number of announcements to implement export controls on rare earth technologies, equipment and objects.
This counterattack hits the doorstep of Western high-tech industries.
The Trump administration has reacted sharply to China’s rare-earth controls, and Trump himself wrote on social media that the Chinese move was “very strange and hostile.”
This emotional response exposes precisely America’s strategic passivity.
The difficulty of the United States lies in the fact that they both want to bully China, but are afraid of China's counter-reaction, embarrassed by anger and want to raise the table, but do not have this courage and strength, therefore, can only be this kind of incapacity to rage.
Obviously, the effect of U.S. tariff tools has weakened significantly over time, while China has continuously strengthened its foreign economic and trade resilience by improving the trade mechanism of "global minus one (minus the United States)".
For the Netherlands, it may pay a higher price for its short-sighted behavior. Nexperia has contributed a large amount of tax revenue to the Netherlands in the past five years, and the Netherlands' intervention not only destroyed its international reputation as an "open market", but may also lead to further countermeasures from China on rare earth supply.
Obviously, the Netherlands is willing to be a pawn of the United States to seize Chinese assets, but may lose its most important market and resource supply.
And when China holds this "pot" of rare earth, the "food" made by the United States is also difficult to follow.
Looking back at this October game, when Trump's tariff threats and the Dutch asset freeze swept in, China made the most powerful response with rare earth controls and systematic countermeasures.
Those attempts to block China's development through bullying will eventually become a stepping stone to promote the rise of China.
This time, the sudden escalation of the trade war between China and the United States, although in the end it is inevitable to sit down again and negotiate, but China this time will never be easy, the United States will inevitably pay the price for their out-of-the-air, words and beliefs, when China's code will be more than it is now.