Re:Dutch government seizes Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia ...
by grafmax on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @08:11AM
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Exploiting a foreign country’s own resources such that the profits are sent to foreign owners to the point of impoverishment instead of letting that country profit from those resources by socializing the profits to its people - surely that harms that country. Your distinction between profit and weaponization is superficial at best.
Re:Dutch government seizes Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia ...
by 4ggr0 on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @09:32AM
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> Exploiting a foreign country’s own resources such that the profits are sent to foreign owners to the point of impoverishment
I mean where would the West be if it wouldn't do exactly that in Africa, Southern America and surely other places (and did it in even more extreme ways, back when people didn't care that much).
ex. cocoa production in Africa, with European companies being the ones doing and profiting from it.
The Dutch taking ownership of this company is not to divert its profits, it's to prevent the weaponisation of the company against the host country. There is an expectation that the Dutch have reasonable evidence of this. It's also set against a background of the foreign country's other attempts of unprovoked interference.
The replies seem to miss the mark and provide examples where nefarious activities were engaged in the pursuit of profit, some other examples provided were further off the mark by citing examples of retaliation against nationalisation (which is the opposite situation).
This is why I state that they're difficult to compare. If the Dutch were claiming this company for a financial motive it would be the source of significant uncertainty in foreign investment. That doesn't seem to be the case here.