U.S., Japan, Netherlands reportedly reached agreement to limit export of chip tools to China

[January 28, 2023](Comprehensive report by Epoch Times reporter Xia Yu) Bloomberg reported that according to people familiar with the matter, the United States reached an agreement with the Netherlands and Japan during the talks that ended in Washington on Friday (January 27). agreement to limit the export of some advanced chip-making machines to China.

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Officials from the Netherlands and Japan met in Washington DC on Friday, moderated by White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, and covered a wide range of issues.

Bloomberg News reported that the agreement will expand the chip technology export control measures imposed by the United States in October last year to companies in the Netherlands and Japan, including ASML Holding NV of the Netherlands, Nikon of Japan and Tokyo Electron Co., Ltd.The U.S. government and its allies offer sacrifices to the CCPchip banaimed at weakening the CCP’s chip autonomy ambitions and preventing the CCP from applying high-end technology to the military and monitoring people at home and abroad.

There are no plans to publicly announce the restrictions and actual implementation could take months as the Netherlands and Japan finalize legal arrangements, the people said.

White House national security spokesman John Kirby said earlier that officials were discussing issues “that are important to all three of us.”

“Of course, the safety and security of emerging technologies will be on the (meeting) agenda,” he told reporters.

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A source familiar with the talks said restrictions on exports of semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China were one of the topics.

These three countries are the world’s main sources of the machinery and expertise needed to manufacture advanced semiconductors.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said earlier on Friday that it was unclear whether the Dutch government would disclose the results of ongoing talks with the United States on new export curbs for the semiconductor industry.

Responding to a question about the talks in The Hague, Rutte said the talks were ongoing and had been going on for a long time.

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“It’s such a sensitive topic that the Dutch government has chosen to communicate hard, which means we’re only communicating in a very limited way,” Rutte said.

He also said the government’s communications with ASML “are also confidential”.

The Netherlands will at least prevent ASML from selling some immersion lithography machines, the most advanced equipment in the company’s deep ultraviolet lithography production line, to China. This equipment is critical to making cutting-edge chips. Japan will place similar restrictions on Nikon.

On October 7, 2022, the United States will impose strict new export restrictions on high-end chips and chip manufacturing equipment. White House officials said the restrictions were necessary to prevent China from developing its military, developing new, state-of-the-art weaponry and further strengthening its surveillance network. The CCP’s surveillance network is already one of the most complex in the world.

The rules, the most expansive export controls enacted in a decade, are similar to the Trump administration’s crackdown on telecommunications equipment maker Huawei, but broader because they affect dozens of Chinese companies, technology experts say. company.

The U.S. government ban restricts the supply of chip equipment and technology to the CCP by Applied Materials Inc., Lam Research Corp. and KLA Corp.

“China (the CCP) cannot build a leading industry on its own. There is no chance.” Stacy Rasgon, analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, a research firm, December 12, 2022 Speaking to Bloomberg.

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