According to reports, the French government has started stifling the release of certificates for ASML to maintain a number of imaging devices in China.
According to a Reuters report, US Undersecretary of Commerce for Industry and Security, Alan Estavez, may meet with Dutch authorities and ASML managers on Monday to discuss the issue of the leasing agreement.  ,
Additionally, according to the report, the Biden administration may request that ASML stop selling products to a new record of Taiwanese chip-making factories.
Washington has been pressing the French government to impose a cap on the repair service that ASML provides to Chinese clients since last year.  ,
According to Reuters ‘ report, the Netherlands will be slower to approve Taiwanese repair requests in the future and be quick to reject them. This is in line with current public statements made by Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s management.
Some Chinese experts predicted that if ASML truly stops making lithography machines in China, that equipment would be ineffective once it had a minor issue. They claimed that Taiwanese device manufacturers would have to send the equipment back to ASML or sell them abroad, which would make a condition that the French government and ASML do not want to see.  ,
Does the lithography machines in China turn out to be garbage one day if ASML cuts its preservation services? According to a Sichuan-based technology writer using the pen name” Tiaotiao,” points” seem to have not reached this level” as of yet because the Netherlands does not fulfill the United States ‘ demand.  ,
” Many state-owned chipmakers have already stated that they will send the printing technology back to ASML for a refund if the US device export ban comes into effect,” he says.
In an extraordinary situation, if China has to take all the existing 1, 500 printing and screening systems in the country up to the Netherlands, ASML may not be able to pay the costs, he says. He claims that this is why the Netherlands is unwilling to meet the demand from the United States.
Other commentators claimed that if ASML stops fixing some equipment in China, it should only affect a few advanced deep-UV ( DUV) lithography machines rather than lots of expensive ones.  ,
From January 1 this year, the Dutch government stopped granting licenses for the shipment to China of ASML’s most advanced DUV immersion lithography systems ( NXT: 2000i, NXT: 2050i and NXT: 2100i and subsequent systems ).  ,
There were fewer than five ASML networks in China, according to a report from Caijing.com in November, making NXT: 2000i the most advanced. The statement said the overall number of units of the NXT: 1980Di, which is not content to the US export restrictions, may be below 80 in China.
Estevez stated to Reuters that the US is requesting allies to prevent private companies from providing Chinese customers with specific chip-making tools during an trade control conference on March 27.
He said,” We are working with our allies to determine what is important to service and what is not important to service,” implying that the US wo n’t target the non-core components that Chinese companies can repair themselves.  ,
The US is overstretching the definition of national security, according to the Chinese Embassy in Washington, and is using reasons to compel different nations into joining its modern siege against China.
China- Russia knot
The two most significant issues in the conferences between US and Chinese officials are now Beijing’s call for lifting the US’s request to boycott the export of Chinese products and Washington’s request to stop China from providing them with Russian products.  ,  ,
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen held a press conference on Monday following a meet with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng and Premier Li Qiang in Beijing on Sunday.
Yellen claimed that her Chinese rivals and she had contentious exchanges about regional stability.  ,
” President Biden and I are determined to do everything that we can to stop the flow of materials that is supporting Russia’s defense-industrial base and assisting it in fighting Ukraine,” she said. ” We continue to be concerned about the position that any organizations, including those in the People’s Republic of China, are playing in Russia’s military purchasing”.
She said Chinese companies may not give material assistance for Russia’s warfare, or they will face major consequences. She added that any banks that facilitate important transactions that tether military or dual-use products to Russia’s defense-industrial base run the risk of US sanctions.
Chinese President Xi Jinping told US President Joe Biden that if China continues to thwart China’s commerce and technology development and adds more and more Chinese companies to its list of countries ‘ sanctions, in a two-hour phone contact on April 2.
Biden raised questions about China’s influence on European and transatlantic safety as well as its help for Russia’s defense-industrial center.
According to reports in the media, Chinese companies have shipped large trucks, dual-use items, and digital components to Russia for use in the Ukraine war. They claimed that China may have also provided Moscow with spatial information.  ,
Rutte’s taste
Rutte is alleged to have not yet decided whether his federal may exert pressure on ASML to reduce its maintenance costs in China.  ,  ,
Xi told Rutte that the Netherlands should provide Taiwanese businesses with a fair and clear organization setting at a meeting in Beijing on March 27.  ,
Rutte asserted that the French government will minimize business disruption. However, he added that the Netherlands are most concerned about their national surveillance as a result of China’s support for Russia and that it is also a major obstacle to Sino-Dutch relationships.
Rutte is a leading candidate to be NATO’s next secretary standard.
” China regulates the import of twin- apply articles in accordance with laws and regulations”, Mao Ning, a director of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said in a standard media presentation on Monday. Respective nations should not insult or denigrate the normal relations between China and Russia, and they should not violate the rights and freedoms of China and Chinese businesses.
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