A few points:
1. The Dutch people has little say in this ill-made decision, obviously it's the US who manipulated their politics and sacrificed their credit.
2. ASML doesn't need much REE in it's production.
3. I still don't foresee and never want to see a 🇳🇱🇨🇳 trade war.
This is absolutely wild. The Dutch government has just seized control of a major Chinese semiconductor company — and I’m not talking metaphorically. They’ve literally suspended the Chinese CEO, handed voting power to a non-Chinese director, and placed the company’s shares under the control of a third-party trustee. All justified under a wartime emergency law meant for things like bread and fuel rationing. Last I checked, the Netherlands wasn’t being invaded.
And this didn’t happen in a vacuum — it coincides perfectly with Trump’s new “50% rule,” which drags every subsidiary of a Chinese parent company onto America’s Entity List. It looks a lot like Europe is just following Washington’s lead yet again.
This move is disastrous on so many levels: it wrecks investor confidence in Europe (who’d risk billions knowing their assets could be seized overnight?), invites retaliation from China, and destabilizes one of Europe’s few successful chipmakers — Nexperia — a Dutch-based company with 14,000 employees.
Instead of standing up and saying “European companies operate under European law,” Europe folded. Once again proving it lacks strategic autonomy. A smarter move would’ve been to protect its own industries and show that Europe can make decisions for Europe.
But no — the message they’ve sent the world is crystal clear:
If Washington doesn’t like your nationality, your business in Europe is fair game.
@LahtiFellow@Leannenist Normal opinion haha😅somehow I instantly got the idea of your social status and your ideology. Honestly, read some books son, there's a thing called critical thinking, your naïveté worries me
@TeemuHeino2 @gunsnrosesgirl3 why does anyone even try to explain to this guy who's not even capable in spelling... just let him believe what he wants to believe, it's too much trouble to communicate with ignorant simple-minds like this one
@MagicNifty@WatcherGuru why my american bro still believe that they are so important to the world, while the rest of the world thinks that trump is mentally questionable...
@IAmDouglasKim@Mangalawyer what are you trying to convey? this says nothing other than your own fetish obviously, as you are saving this kind of pics lmao. dont you ever representing asian woman