BEIJING, March 9 — China said today it
"firmly opposes" a decision by the Netherlands to implement new restrictions on the export of semiconductor production equipment, calling it the result of"bullying and hegemony" by the West.
The export curb, revealed in a letter by Dutch Foreign Trade Minister Liesje Schreinemacher in a letter to parliament on Wednesday, comes less than two months after the country's Prime Minister Mark Rutte discussed the issue with US President Joe Biden during a visit to Washington. This is done"in order to deprive China of its development rights and maintain its own hegemony", she said.
Recent years have seen a ratcheting up of tensions surrounding the global computer chips market as Western officials raise alarm bells over the provision of core technological components by increasingly adversarial trading partners.
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