The Dutch government has taken the unusual step of intervening in the operations of Nexperia, a Chinese-owned semiconductor manufacturer, after identifying what it described as a potential threat to national and European economic security.
As Beijing moves to tighten export rules on crucial rare-earth elements — the same minerals long extracted from Tibet under state-directed exploitation — the world confronts a stark irony: after decades of selling resources taken from an occupied land, China now seeks to hoard those materials for its own strategic and military ambitions.
