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The $150 Million Machine With $200 Billion at Stake for China
The U.S. has succeeded in keeping a cutting-edge semiconductor machine out of China’s hands even though it’s made in Europe.
The future of chips.
Photographer: Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg
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Huawei Technologies Co. has become very much the U.S.’s whipping boy in the battle to nip China’s technological ascendancy in the bud. President Donald Trump’s administration has slapped sanctions and curbs on the Shenzhen-based company and lobbied allies to do the same. Last month growing resistance against Huawei among lawmakers in Germany’s governing coalition sparked threats of retaliation from the Chinese ambassador.
But what’s happening next door in the Netherlands has higher stakes for China.