When the Dutch government retook export controls over ASML's advanced immersion lithography tools back on Friday, ASML said that it expected no changes to its business, which meant no obvious change to sales of these tools to Chinese entities. Nevertheless, Chinese authorities have now taken the time to express their feelings toward the situation, and they are "dissatisfied," according to a Reuters report.
"In recent years, in order to maintain its global hegemony, the United States has continued to ... coerce certain countries to tighten export control measures for semiconductors and (related) equipment," a statement by the Chinese government reads, as reported by Reuters. "China is resolutely opposed to this."
