Why does Europe, which prides itself on respecting the rule of law, engage in pirate-like plunder? Where does the Netherlands have the confidence to be so arrogant and arrogant to China companies?
The Netherlands has done a very bad thing recently. It used administrative and judicial means to forcibly control a normally and legally operating Chinese-funded enterprise。The ins and outs of this matter are like this. There is a company called Anshi Semiconductor. It took us, China Wentai Technology, nearly three years, implemented three acquisitions, and invested a total of nearly 30 billion yuan to fully acquire it. It is so expensive, it is worth it.Because Anselm is a leading company in the global division and power chip field, it provides key chips for automotive electronics, consumer electronics and other industries.
But it was such a company that was legally acquired and operated by Chinese enterprises, but was brutally interfered by the Dutch government. Global assets are frozen for one year.But it can't even produce any evidence. What is this to maintain safety? It's clearly piracy in the 21st century. It's not over yet. It's obviously not in court, The Dutch court withdrew the Chinese delegated CEO, sent a foreign person to replace him, and even the shares of the company were handed over to a third party, which is equivalent to directly clearing the control of the Chinese enterprise.Moreover, the timing of the whole matter is very delicate. Almost immediately after the U.S. introduced new export control regulations, the Netherlands followed, and the three foreign executives were also "defeated" at the same time, such a precise coordination had to be suspected of early planned.
But the Dutch government may have forgotten, Their own economic livelihoods are actually substantially dependent on China.According to the data released by Statistics Netherlands, in addition to fluorspar and bismuth, at least five key materials in the Netherlands are completely dependent on Chinese supplies. Once these materials are lacking, their high-tech industries and new energy projects will have to be shut down.
The first trump card is barite, or barium oxide.This is the basic raw material for manufacturing semiconductors and optical glass. In the supply chain of ASML lithography machines in the Netherlands, many electronic components rely on it to ensure stability. Without barite, the high-end electronic production line in the Netherlands would be stuck, making it difficult to build advanced chips; The second is uranium.The Netherlands, as a member of the European Union, is also vigorously promoting the energy transition, while uranium is the key raw material for electric vehicle power batteries. If China restricts supply, the new energy program of the Netherlands must be delayed for at least a few years; The third card is Zion.Last year, the Netherlands spent 274 million euros on importing magnesium products from China. Magnesium alloy, a key material used to make electric vehicle bodies and wind turbine blades, is light and strong. Dutch statisticians themselves admit that there is no substitute for this thing at all, and there is no solution to its dependence. Once China's magnesium is lacking, the new energy industry in the Netherlands seems to have been ripped off.
The fourth is manganese, the Netherlands imports 178 million euros worth of manganese from China every year. It is mainly used to enhance the toughness and corrosion resistance of steel, and Dutch construction companies, metal processing plants and automobile manufacturing are all inseparable from it. From packaging materials to car frames, steel lacking manganese is simply not durable. Once the supply of this material is cut off, Dutch manufacturing costs will rise sharply, and many orders will not be delivered on time; The last trump card is tantalum,It is the “needed item” of the high-end manufacturing industry. The manufacturing of aerospace equipment, high-temperature capacitors in military equipment, and high-end chips must all use uranium. The Dutch high-end equipment industry relies entirely on uranium capacitors to ensure stability. If China restricts exports, their precision instruments and special chip production lines will be immediately at risk of paralysis.
Someone might ask, Can't the Netherlands buy these materials from other countries? I can't do it.China has been a leader in the mining and processing of these materials for many years. The EU has only now remembered that it wants to find minerals. Remote water cannot satisfy its immediate thirst. The Dutch government should be clear that China is not determined and capable of not resisting.Before the U.S. imposed sanctions on China, China began to carry out rare-earth countermeasures, in contrast, the Netherlands relies on these key materials, the control difficulty is even smaller than rare-earth, and we also have the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law as the legal basis, and it is correct to countermeasures.
In the final analysis, this incident also sounded a wake-up call for us, That is, in the context of the intensification of the game between China and the United States, the Western camp has no longer acted according to the rules, so we must make greater efforts to protect the rights and interests of Chinese companies overseas.We don’t want to take the initiative, but we’re never afraid of it. If the Dutch are obsessed and continue with this kind of robbery, then once the five cards in our hands are played, they will pay a heavy price for their short-sighted behavior.