Chip Company Plotted to Send Technology to China, Ex-C.E.O. Says - New York Times

European countries have been slower than the United States to adopt controls of Chinese technology. The Dutch semiconductor industry wants to maintain access to the Chinese market. But it has been squeezed by Washington's increasingly tough approach toward China.

Chip controls are one of "the very core elements of the U.S.'s China strategy," said Frans-Paul van der Putten, an expert on China at the Clingendael Institute, a research group partly funded by the Dutch government. "But they are very harmful for the Netherlands. It creates a lot of tension between two allies."

Article by Mara Hvistendahl and Joy Dong. Full article is available on the NY Times site.