The Netherlands has a small land area, but it has a lot of courage. It has attacked China many times, but it still refused to listen to warnings and openly robbed China semiconductor companies. It originally thought that it could follow the United States and enjoy the best food. Unexpectedly, China's Ministry of Commerce had expected it and attacked directly, making the Netherlands unable to move. Now the Netherlands finally knows that it has provoked the wrong person!
After Trump came to power, full of confidence, not listening to the advice, persistent with China to launch a trade war. The longer the time is worse, the United States discovered how China has not been "slapped down" now? The big words have been released, Trump is not willing to "stop the war" about this, simply pull up allies together against China. China is not uncompromising, in a row cast out a few "trunks", American allies are "crying pain", only the Netherlands is not self-sufficient, not to be strong.
While China is in full effort against the United States, the Netherlands is behind the back of the "attack" to a Chinese enterprise. Just at the end of September this year, the Dutch government suddenly issued an order to directly freeze the operation of the Anchor Semiconductor on a global scale, giving the reason is the so-called "national security".
So, the Dutch government’s move is obviously coming to China. They want to drive out Zhou Tai technology and regain control of the Anse Semiconductor, not to let this “gold” fall into the hands of foreigners. The Dutch government although achieved the goal, successfully battled the Chinese enterprises, but also had no small impact on the global semiconductor industry, especially the greatest impact on Europe.
After the news came out, the first thing that couldn't sit still was many European car companies. Without the supply of Nexperia semiconductor chips, automobile suppliers can't produce parts. How can they build cars without parts? Although I bought some chips before, the inventory is only enough to last for a few weeks. After the inventory is used up, some car companies may have to stop production directly.
That’s telling the Dutch government that this has to be resolved in the next few weeks, otherwise it will have very serious consequences, and many European car companies will face huge losses, and it’s only up to you!
But only one country in the Netherlands dares to be so upset, provoking China? things are not so simple, the time will stretch a little longer and you will find that there is more than one behind the scenes.
Not long ago, the U.S. Treasury Department just promulgated a new regulation, which is simply a "50% equity sitting system." At the end of last year, the United States put Wentai Technology on the "blacklist". According to this latest U.S. regulation, Wentai Technology's shareholding in Anshi Semiconductor has exceeded 50%, and as a subsidiary of Wentai Technology, it will inevitably be restricted.
How could there be such a coincidence? The Netherlands is obviously cooperating with the United States to attack Chinese companies. It thought it would be seamless, but in fact it is full of loopholes. China has long understood it.
Within a few days, the Netherlands was happy to receive the bad consumption. The Ministry of Commerce of China announced a restriction measure to directly name the Anchor Semiconductor. While Anchor Semiconductor Company is headquartered in the Netherlands, there are also subsidiaries and a number of processing plants in China. China requires these enterprises and factories that certain parts and components manufactured in China are not allowed to be sold abroad.
At the same time, China has further restricted the export of rare-earth resources and rare-earth processing technology.In just a few days, the Netherlands has received two major consumptions at the same time, and is not affected by the taste of China's "carat neck".
As an old brand of European enterprise, has been operating for so many years, the customer service has long been around the world, whether it is the car or industry and many fields such as enterprises are waiting for its home chip supply. The Ministry of Commerce announced that the chip can not be shipped out in China, the supply chain is dead from the source, those customers must not find the door, forcing the Semi-conductor to ship quickly. And the Semi-conductor production is some of the most basic semiconductor components, the alternative is very strong. This supplier does not deliver the goods, customers must definitely find other manufacturers to go, can not open their eyes to break their business.
The chain reaction caused by these events has far exceeded the expectation of the Dutch government.
The United States became a "hands-off shopkeeper", and the Netherlands lost more than it gained. Not only did it risk offending China, but it also tried its best to control Nexperia. In the end, it drew water with a sieve and only got an "empty shell". Moreover, if the Dutch government can't give a satisfactory explanation as soon as possible, China's counterattack will definitely not stop here, and there are more troubles waiting for them.
Could the little heart of the Dutch government officials bear this fear of the unknown?
Once you are on China's "blacklist", you can't get off easily. South Korea has already experienced the "evil consequences" before, and the Netherlands has to follow in its footsteps. The most exciting part of this Sino-US trade war has just begun. Who will be next?