Lithuania wanted to antagonize China by allowing Taiwan to open a representative office in Vilnius under the name Taiwan. China cuts off ties with Lithuania, refusing to have further engagement to reset ties, and Lithuania's economy took a nosedive. Do you think Lithuania did all this itself? Even the mighty Germans and French do not think it wise to antagonize China, so what does a minnow in EU like Lithuania hope to achieve?
The Netherlands tried to seize a Chinese semiconductor company, Nexperia, which backfired. They seized a nameplate and address instead, with the main manufacturing all located inside China, which were told just to ignore the orders of the Dutch HQ in the Netherlands. Nexperia's owner, Wingtech Technology Company had been on the USA's entity list earlier and the Dutch Government was trying to carry favor with the USA by seizing Nexperia to control vehicle dependence on its semiconductor technology.
The Dutch are going to find out they owe China much more than just the actions taken against China by ASML and Nexperia. These will be repaid with interest when chips can be made beyond the ASMC EUV machines. It is just a matter of time. When China succeeds in making its own EUV machines and flooding the market like everything else, ASML is going to die of old age like Kodak and some ICE vehicle makers, no matter how prestigious they once were.
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They never learn from what happened to Canada. Canada was partner-in-crime of the USA against Huawei. Now Canada is the enemy. Times change. Now, I think Canada should regret doing what it did against Huawei. But then Whites are whites and you can never trust their behavior.
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