With China's rise and revival, first-mover powers have a very mixed perception of China.
On the one hand, China's increasingly large market can benefit all participating countries, and on the other hand, China's technological innovation is also threatening the developed countries, so the West's overall attitude towards China is now one of limited cooperation.
China is not something that anyone can restrict, and the United States is the leader of the mechanism of restricting China, and the European Union is its vassal.
Following the technical barriers erected by the United States, the European Union also announced high-profile restrictions on Chinese and European chips**, in which China warned the European Union to consider its different situations from the United States, and not to steal chickens and rice, while the Dutch chip giant ASML said that it left a "back door" for China.
What is China's attitude on the chip issue? How does the EU respond to China's voice? Why does ASML want to defy the wind and leave a back door for China?
The Chinese representative made harsh remarks.
Revolution is a special word in human society, which naturally flourishes because it represents the replacement of old things with new things.
Among the many revolutions, the technological revolution has the greatest impact on human society, from stone tools to bronze tools to the Iron Age in ancient times, and the industrial revolution in modern times has profoundly affected the world situation.
Nowadays, the industrial revolution has changed to the most advanced high-tech industries such as artificial intelligence and robotics, so some people call the period after this technological innovation the era of information technology.
If oil is the "blood" of social operation, then in today's era, chips can be said to be the "brain" of social operation.
All information technology cannot operate independently without chips, so whoever masters chip manufacturing will choke the throat of modern industry.
The transcendent position of the United States in the current world system is undoubted, so the key to the chip has always been firmly held in its hands, and the European Union, Japan and South Korea, as its henchmen, have also been able to share a piece of the cake of the chip industry.
Europe and the United States use their monopoly position in the field of chips to seek huge profits while also excluding dissidents by restricting supply.
Earlier, China's Huawei company took the lead in developing 5G technology, but the United States has long been eyeing Huawei's technological breakthroughs, and Huawei can only obtain 4G chips under unilateral sanctions, and companies developing 5G cannot use 5G.
Huawei's situation is not unique, but it is the best example of the constraints on China's technological development in Europe and the United States, which only want to maintain China's position as a market country to profit.
The numerous breakthroughs made in China's scientific community in recent years have clearly stimulated the fragile nerves of the United States, and it cannot allow China to overtake the United States, even if it is only a technological catch-up.
The United States was once a vigorous and advanced world beacon country, and it also surpassed Britain and France to become a world leader with high spirits.
The United States is not clear, the future of new things is ambitious, the future is bright, China's rise and rejuvenation has been unstoppable, but obviously the United States is more willing to live in the dream of being the first in the old era, even if it is a defeat for both sides, even if it is a jade burning.
Under the leadership of the United States, a layer of first-class but heavy technical barriers appeared around China, and the European Union was an important player in it.
The European Union has issued a tough restrictive order on chips, closing the channel for European and American high-tech industries to export to China, especially banning the export of chip products**.
Fu Cong, China's representative to the EU, said: The EU should carefully consider whether the United States cutting off the supply of chips is a restriction on China or a backstab to EU companies, and how long can the European chip industry be separated from China.
China's technology is not ten or twenty years ago, don't be smart and make wedding clothes for others.
Frankly speaking, the ban of Europe and the United States will indeed affect China's information industry, but China and Europe are a mutually beneficial thing, and China's chip market is not only the EU, plus China's domestic chip production capacity and performance have been greatly improved in recent years, the EU's restrictions are just a stupid act of lifting a stone to shoot itself in the foot.
EU executives have a heart set on the United States.
Doesn't anyone in the huge EU know that China and the EU are mutually beneficial?
Of course not, but the top level of the EU is full of people who pretend to be stupid, saying that their stupidity lies in using the EU's national strength to compete with China just to win the favor of the United States, and that they are pretending to use the interests of the EU's high-tech enterprises in exchange for the favor of the United States.
In order to please the United States, the top level of the European Union has no longer paid attention to any logic and economic operation laws.
In the Belt and Road Initiative, China and the EU enjoyed themselves because the EU had benefited from it, and that period was a honeymoon period for China-EU relations. But when the United States had the intention of suppressing China, the European Union immediately showed the fangs behind its smile.
After the United States began to sanction Huawei and start a ** war against China, the European Union quietly tightened its pockets, constantly criticizing China from ecology to energy use, but kept silent about the things that once made a lot of money from China.
After the United States activated technical barriers to China, the European Commission issued a pretended resolution, ordering EU companies to synchronize technological restrictions on China.
The United States has taken the lead in launching a sniper attack on China's semiconductor sector, as evidenced by the sanctions against Huawei, which shows that the development of Chinese technology has made the United States feel threatened.
Following the United States, the European Union has also participated in sanctions against Huawei, and now it has further increased restrictions, with the Netherlands** ordering the domestic chip giant ASML to restrict its chip exports to China.
The attitude of the Netherlands represents the attitude of the EU as a whole, and whether or not the United States puts pressure on the EU, the actions of the Netherlands and the EU policymakers behind it have hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.
The West thought that China would give in, but our enthusiasm and bonfires were only used to receive friends, and to those who deliberately made things difficult, they were greeted by the anger and counterattack of the Chinese.
After the European Union followed closely behind the United States in sanctioning China, the speech of Chinese representative Fu Cong shook the land of Western Europe like thunder.
Because this is a country that has the economy and influence to the second in the world, no country can ignore or ignore it, even if the EU has the support of the United States, the world's first.
EU policymakers can indeed rely on US support and forcefully block Central European chips**, because they can gain the favor of the US and retain their power.
But for ordinary people, following the strategy of the United States will only cause them to have no energy available in the winter and inflation is too high, and now the EU leaders have to follow the United States to block the hope of the European economy in Central Europe.
Chip private companies leave the back door.
Compared to the decision-makers, most people in Europe are not very "beautiful".
Because whether it is civilians or enterprises, their lives are not easy, they have to bear higher and higher energy and basic products**, and in this way to pay for the United States to start a war, European countries get high inflation and even people's livelihood, how can people accept.
With profits gradually declining, European companies have come to the situation of "winter is coming", but fortunately, there are Central European ** hanging the vitality of European private enterprises, even ASML is no exception to the sunrise chip giants.
Now that the EU is further tightening restrictions on China, it is no different from cutting itself off, but ASML does not want to cut itself off.
ASML has always opposed the EU's implementation of restrictions on China, ASML executive Wennink has said: China's industrial development needs a large number of chips, this is a huge market, Chinese companies have shown great potential, chip business can not be done for a few years. No matter what the EU leadership thinks, ASML will not give up on China's huge market.
Compared with the EU's top brass who are smiling and hiding knives, ASML has shown great goodwill to China, saying that it will "leave a back door" to China quietly.
Although limited to the cold of the government order chips, ASML will continue to export lithography machines to China to help China through today's scientific research difficulties, and they are more willing to invest in China than the United States, which can only shout slogans.
Epilogue. It is a historical necessity for the new to replace the old, and it is okay for the United States to stubbornly want to stay in the old era, but they cannot ask everyone else to act with them.
China has long been awake, and EU politicians are still immersed in sweet dreams, but the European people have already recognized the true face of the United States, and cooperation with China is the trend of the times. After all, the future is always "young"!
References: 1. The Chinese side put down its cruel words, the West is all nervous, giants: we quietly left the "back door"!
2. The EU has decided to launch a campaign against China! China: Strongly dissatisfied.