The Netherlands has just responded that it doesn't matter to the Chinese enterprises and the United States, but court documents have been exposed, the United States has long demanded the Netherlands to take action, China's countermeasures have been in place, and none of the United States has been released to the Netherlands.
On September 30, the Netherlands suddenly attacked Nexperia, a subsidiary of Chinese semiconductor company Wingtech Technology, and frozen its assets, intellectual property rights, and business and personnel adjustments for one year. Moreover, the Dutch Enterprise Court appointed a foreigner with decisive voting rights to become a director of Nexperia without a direct hearing.
After the incident was revealed, several foreign media believe that the Dutch behavior will exacerbate the friction between the Western world and China, and also speculate that it may have been "directed" by the United States. A spokesman for the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs immediately jumped out and denied it, saying that the time when the Netherlands sanctioned Chinese companies was purely coincidental and had nothing to do with the United States, but court documents showed that the United States had long been involved.
According to Observer.com, court documents released by the Amsterdam Court of Appeal on October 14th showed that in June this year, the United States made a request to the Netherlands, forcing the Netherlands to make a choice.
The South China Morning Post pointed out in its report that the United States has long been preparing to expand the "entity list", which is the "penetrating" measure announced by the United States some time ago, extending sanctions to subsidiaries with a company holding 50% or more. The company was included in the U.S. "entity list" in December last year, so the U.S. warned the Netherlands that it would replace the chief executive if it wanted to exempt Anselm Semiconductor.。
By the time the Netherlands stepped in on September 30, the U.S."Entity List" policy had been updated, and companies on the list subject to sanctions and their subsidiaries would also be implicated. I am afraid that in order to quickly avoid sanctions by the United States, the Dutch government will quickly take action against Chinese companies, directly depriving Anshi of most of its rights and interests, retaining only economic benefits.
As a subsidiary of a Chinese company in the Netherlands, Axi Semiconductor is also very important to the Dutch economy.It employs thousands of people, has an annual output value of billions of euros, and supports the European semiconductor supply chain. If affected by U.S. sanctions, its production may be delayed or stagnated, resulting in a shortage of chips and other semiconductor products in the Netherlands and Europe, and the Dutch economy will inevitably suffer.
Under such circumstances, the Netherlands will have to choose between China and the United States. As a result, everyone saw that it chose the United States in exchange for the exemption of the United States and harmed China's interests. Since the Netherlands has made a choice, China has long announced that any behavior that harms China's interests will be countered by China, so don't blame China for taking action.
According to the "United Morning Post", China has banned the export of Anchor Semiconductor from China. Anchor Semiconductor as a wholly owned subsidiary, although its headquarters is in the Netherlands, but some of the parts or raw materials used to produce also come from the mainland of China.
Now that China takes action against it, Anshi Semiconductor's production will inevitably be affected, which may lead to delayed delivery or even suspension of production. Anshi is currently urgently applying for an exemption, but the Dutch government's "plunder" of China companies may make this application difficult to pass.
China has also imposed new sanctions on the United States.On 14 October, additional tariffs on Chinese ships and shipping came into effect, and counter-tariffs on Chinese ships also came into effect.In addition, China also handed out five U.S. subsidiaries of Korean enterprises linked to the United States, Hanoi Ocean.
Havana Ocean’s investment in the United States has increased in recent years, it has, at the request of the United States, established a factory in the United States, helping the United States revitalize the shipbuilding industry. Therefore, China's countermeasures not only target US unreasonable tariffs, but also directly hit the core of U.S. policy and the U.S. shipbuilding industry.
In addition to these measures, China also has persistent countermeasures against the United States, namely rare earths and refusal to buy American soybeans.These two things also make Trump extremely anxious. On the one hand, he cannot obtain rare earths, and the U.S. military industry risks stopping production at any time. On the other hand, soybean farmers are facing bankruptcy. The U.S. government is also shutting down, making it difficult to provide subsidies.
Even if Trump comes up with new threats, China is not afraid. He declared that he might stop the edible oil trade, but even if it was implemented, it would have a negative impact on the United States, not to mention that he probably wouldn't actually implement it. It can be said that when the United States has come to this point, it has little choice but to come back and talk to China.