China asks Netherlands, exporter of world’s top chipmaking equipment, to avoid decoupling
China’s commerce minister spoke with his Dutch counterpart this week in a bid to dissuade the European country – exporter of the world’s top chipmaking equipment – from hi-tech decoupling, which would hurt Chinese efforts to develop their own advanced semiconductors. Wang Wentao and Geoffrey van Leeuwen, the Netherlands’ acting foreign trade minister, met in …