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China blames US ‘coercion’ for new Dutch export controls on ASML chip-making equipment
The Dutch government has said it would expand export licensing requirements for two ASML lithography tools.
China is “dissatisfied” with the Dutch government’s decision to expand export controls on ASML Holdings chip-making equipment, the Chinese commerce ministry said in a statement on Sunday. The Dutch government on Friday said it would expand export licensing requirements for ASML’s 1970i and 1980i deep ultraviolet (DUV) immersion lithography tools, aligning its rules with export restrictions on these machines unilaterally imposed by the United States last year. “In recent years, in order to maintain its global hegemony, the United States has continued to … coerce certain countries to tighten export control measures for semiconductors and (related) equipment … China is resolutely opposed to this,” China’s commerce ministry said in response to the Dutch government’s announcement on Friday.
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