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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping said Wednesday during a stop at Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte that attempts to limit China’s access to generation will not impede the country’s progress.
The Netherlands imposed export licensing requirements in 2023 for the sale of machinery capable of producing complex processor chips. The move comes after the U. S. blocked China’s access to the chips and complex gadgets needed to make them, raising security concerns, and suggesting allies stick to its demands. .
An online report by state broadcaster CCTV mentioned the chip machinery, but quoted Xi as saying that the creation of scientific and generational barriers and the fragmentation of trade and origin chains will lead to division and confrontation.
“Other Chinese are also entitled to valid progress, and no force can impede the speed of China’s clinical and technological progress,” Xi said, according to CCTV.
The Dutch company ASML is the world’s only manufacturer of excessive ultraviolet lithography machines for manufacturing complex semiconductors. By 2023, China will become ASML’s second-largest market, accounting for 29% of its revenue, and Chinese corporations will buy gadgets before licensing is required. entered into force.
Rutte, speaking to reporters after their meeting, declined to give additional details of the talks.
“What I can tell you is that . . . When we have to take certain things, that are never focused on a specific objective, that we review to make sure that the effect is limited, that it doesn’t have an effect on the chain of origin and therefore it doesn’t have an effect on the overall economic relationship,” he said.
The Dutch leader, who accompanied Trade Minister Geoffrey van Leeuwen on the trip, said the main topic of his meetings with Xi and Chinese Premier Li Qiang was the war in Ukraine.
China has taken an even-handed stance in the war, offering Russia diplomatic and economic protection through trade. This stance has angered and frustrated much of Europe, which sees Russia as the aggressor and Ukraine as the victim.
Rutte said it was vital for China to understand that “this is a direct risk to our security, because if Russia succeeds in Ukraine, it will be a risk for the whole of Europe. It probably won’t be avoided with Ukraine. “
He added that he had called on China’s leaders “to put all their weight — and they can do so to the extent that I am involved in a very discreet way — but as much as is imaginable on Russia to influence the course of events. “
ASML, the largest company in the Netherlands, recently threatened to leave the country due to anti-immigration policies that could affect the company’s ability to recruit talent, forcing government officials to scramble to make sure the company doesn’t leave.
Van Leeuwen said this week in an interview with FD, a Dutch business newspaper, that protecting ASML’s interests was the most sensible priority, but claimed that national security comes before economic interests.
Beijing has continually accused the United States of trying to curb China’s economic progress by restricting access to technology. In response, Xi introduced a crusade to expand the production of chips and other high-tech products.
“China opposes the U. S. over-expanding the concept of national security and using various excuses to force other countries to impose a generational blockade on China,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said in January.
Rutte said NATO and its developing ties with Asia were not discussed in Wednesday’s talks. He is one of the leading candidates to lead the alliance, which China has criticized for provoking regional tensions and making diplomatic inroads into the Asia-Pacific region.
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This was reported from Hong Kong. AP Michael Corder in The Hague, Netherlands, contributed.