EU vows to back US in 'depriving' China of most advanced semiconductor chips & technology

European Internal Market Commissioner, Thierry Breton, on Friday, stated that bloc will back United States' resolve of choking China's vanced semiconductor chips technology. While making a speech at an event in Washington, Breton stressed that  EU entirely agrees "with objective of depriving China of most vanced chips as we cannot allow China to access most vanced technologies."

US h earlier passed multibillion-dollar bill CHIPS and Science Act to manufacture semiconductor chips domestically to curb Chinese exports.  semiconductor chips are a hard-to-make component found in every modern machinery and component, including defense weaponry. Biden ministration inked an agreement with  Nerlands and its stefast Asian ally Japan to ban chip exports to China escalating a global tre conflict.  European Union tre official on January 27 reaffirmed bloc's "full commitment" to disrupting  semiconductor industry of Beijing. 

“We fully agree with objective of depriving China of most vanced chips," EU’s internal-market commissioner, Thierry Breton, said in a speech me at  Centre for Strategic and International Studies forum. 

“We cannot allow China to access most vanced technologies," he furrmore stressed. 

Biden pressurizing Europe to ban Chinese manufactured chips

Talks with Tokyo and Stockholm to cut Beijing's ambition of expanding its own domestic chipmaking machinery concluded this week, on Friday, reports suggest.  deal is extension of export controls opted by Washington in October for allied countries' firms namely—ASML Holding NV, Nikon Corp, and Tokyo Electron Ltd—to undercut China's high-end semiconductor and chip-making technologies.

Biden has been pressurising Europe to ban Chinese-manufactured semiconductor chips. Dutch tre minister Liesje Schreinemacher, at a presser, reaffirmed cooperation with United States but ded that his country will not immediately comply with restrictive measure. Dutch government, he noted, is in consultation with its Asian and EU allies, Schreinemacher outlined. It could take several months for European nations to finalize legal arrangements with United States. 

“Talks are ongoing, for a long time alrey, but we don’t communicate about this. And if something would come out of this, it is questionable if this will be me very visible,” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte maintained during an dress in Hague, when asked by a reporter about his plans. 

Chinese Foreign Ministry h previously slammed United States for its moves to ban semiconductor chips exports, saying that it has strong geopolitical overtones. Wang Wenbin, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, maintained that new US CHIPS Act has loopholes in its provisions that will disrupt Chinese-US scientific and technological cooperation. Biden ministration said that chips ban is critical for its own national security, competing with China, and reducing United States' reliance on Taiwan and South Korea for critical technologies.