Netherlands mocked as ‘pirate’ after taking over China’s Nexperia

Chinese state media and pundits have called the Dutch government a “pirate” and even threatened it with a ban on rare earths, following its seizure of control of the Chinese-owned semiconductor maker Nexperia in late September. On September 29, the United States Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued an interim rule extending its Entity List and Military End-User