“You know I have noticed…”

“Me too, I would strongly urge the West to learn the game of chess.”

“What?”

“Chess, where you time a move that takes account of your adversary’s fallback position. Netherlands didn’t; on 30 September and took effective control of Nexperia owned by Chinese Wingtech Technology under its highly exceptional Goods Availability Act which allows the Dutch government to intervene in privately owned companies citing threat to national security or…”

“That was a laugh, the Dutch did not take account of the fact that key production facilities of Nexperia were in China and China retaliated on 4 October by imposing export controls that prevented........

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