THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS – MARCH 23:Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte meets with the President of the Folks’s Republic of China Xi Jinping on the Catshuis March 23, 2014 in The Hague, Netherlands. (Photograph by Valerie Kuypers-Pool/Getty Photographs
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China’s technological progress can’t be stopped, Chinese language President Xi Jinping advised Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte after they met in Beijing Wednesday for talks on areas such because the crucial semiconductor trade.
“The Chinese people also have legitimate development rights, and no force can stop the pace of China’s scientific and technological progress,” stated Xi, based on Xinhua News Agency.
Xi stated China will “continue to pursue a win-win approach.”
Relations between China and the Netherlands have been strained because the the Netherlands, together with the U.S., blocked exports of superior chip expertise to China over considerations they may very well be used for army functions.
Semiconductor chips are crucial parts which could be present in all the pieces from smartphones to cars.
Dutch tech large ASML has been barred from exporting extreme ultraviolet lithography machines to China — it’s the solely firm at present able to making such machines To this point, it has not shipped a single EUV machine to China but.
Such EUV lithography machines are essential for chip manufacturing and are utilized by firms like Taiwan’s TSMC to make the smallest and most refined chips.
In January, the Netherlands barred ASML from exporting a few of its deep ultraviolet lithography programs to China, that are used to make barely much less superior chips.
Beijing slammed the Dutch government’s move, urging the Netherlands to “uphold an objective and fair position and market principles” and “protect the shared interests” of the 2 nations and their firms.
“Creating scientific and technological barriers and severing industrial and supply chains will only lead to division and confrontation,” Xi stated Wednesday, based on Xinhua state media.
He stated cooperation is the one means and added that “decoupling and breaking the chain” isn’t an choice.
Xi stated China is able to proceed dialogue with the Netherlands and urged the Dutch aspect to “provide a fair and transparent business environment for Chinese enterprises.”
According to Reuters, Rutte stated Wednesday the Netherlands tried to make sure that export restrictions, when associated to semiconductor trade and corporations like ASML, are by no means aimed toward one nation. “We always try to make sure the impact is limited,” he was quoted as saying.
Chinese language state media reported that Rutte responded by saying decoupling isn’t a coverage selection for the Dutch authorities both, “since any act undermining China’s development interests will only boomerang.”
