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Xi Jinping warns Dutch leader Mark Rutte not to put up barriers after ban on chip technology exports to China
- Xi told the outgoing Dutch prime minister that ‘fragmenting industrial and supply chains will only lead to division and confrontation’
- Rutte, who is tipped to be next Nato chief, said he wanted to focus on China’s relations with Russia following the invasion of Ukraine
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Chinese President Xi Jinping warned against creating “division and confrontation” in a meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Wednesday following the imposition of curbs on chip-making technology by the Netherlands last year.
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Xi told Rutte that decoupling will lead nowhere and that Beijing has always believed that a truly secure world should be one that is interdependent, according to the state news agency Xinhua.
“The Chinese people also have the right to legitimate development. No force can stop the pace of China’s scientific and technological development and progress,” Xi said.
“Artificially creating scientific and technological barriers and fragmenting industrial and supply chains will only lead to division and confrontation.”
Rutte, who will leave office once talks on forming a new government have concluded, insisted decoupling is not a policy option for the Netherlands, according to the Chinese statement.
The Netherlands is the home of ASML, the world’s biggest developer of advanced semiconductor equipment for chip makers, and the country has found itself caught in the middle of the tech war between the United States and China as Washington pushes its allies to help exclude Beijing from access to the most cutting-edge semiconductors.
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