Commentary
A highly advanced Dutch computer chipmaker is delaying an agreement on U.S. and allied export controls to keep selling its chipmaking machines to China. The company’s CEO and the Netherlands’ trade minister have both publicly resisted measures meant to contain the growing threat from Beijing.
They should know that their technology would likely support China’s economy, military, and the resulting hubris that fuels Beijing’s human rights abuse and militarism.
The Dutch technology could not only be used in China’s weaponry, but in broad economic activities that ultimately support Beijing’s military aggression against U.S. partners in the Asia-Pacific, including Japan, Taiwan, and Australia….