Dutch officials admitted they had not anticipated the strong countermeasures taken by China, which triggered a controversy.

Dutch officials have admitted that they did not anticipate China's decisive countermeasures.

According to Hong Kong media "South China Morning Post", recently, Dutch Economic Minister Vincent Karamans admitted that he had not expected the Anshide incident to trigger China's countermeasures, and the Netherlands was "surprised" by this.

According to Karamans' statement, the seizure of Anshide Semiconductor was a planned action by the Dutch government. Before the action, the Netherlands had assessed possible responses from China, but never considered the possibility of China imposing a chip export ban - Karamans' original words were: "We evaluated all possible responses from China, and the chip export ban was not the most likely option."

Then the Dutch government was proven wrong. According to the report by Dutch newspaper "De Telegraaf", due to the failure to predict China's countermeasures and coordinate with the EU, Karamans was criticized by members of all political parties in the Dutch parliament for being "reckless", "amateurish", and "unwise".

Of course, Karamans definitely will not admit his mistake - when asked why he canceled the planned visit to China, he still tried to justify by saying "there was no time on the schedule" and "he would still go to China soon, just the time is not determined".

However, no matter how Karamans tries to justify, he can only keep his mouth shut. After the Netherlands stirred up this farce, how to settle the situation is no longer something the Netherlands can decide on its own.

Original: toutiao.com/article/1850754037789703/

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