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I'm sure everyone knows,Recently, ASML Company in the Netherlands intended to curb our access to chipsThey are unwilling to export rare and precious Stepper to China, which has seriously affected the development of China's chip field and semiconductor field.

On this basis, China has made countermeasures and recently introduced two key elements of prohibition laws.This news has sparked strong reactions from the United States, Japan, South Korea, and even multiple Western countries. While accusing China of non-compliance, they have also increased their efforts to contact Chinese companies and engage in a desperate struggle. So what's going on here?

China's ban has caused panic in many countries

Recently, two key departments in China have introduced a new regulation.Starting from August 1st, China will implement export controls on two chemical substances, including gallium and germanium. This is a new major regulatory measure adopted by our side in foreign mineral trade since 2023.

Because these two metal elements are closely related to the manufacturing of chips, China's behavior this time is definitely not a whim, but a deliberate one.China introduced this ban to counter the manipulation of China's semiconductor industry by multiple Western companies, including the Netherlands, at that time.

Since 2022, China has been under pressure from multiple Western countries, including the United States, in the semiconductor and chip fields.They introduced various extreme policies, which made it impossible for us to obtain a variety of semiconductor products, including Stepper.

Their purpose is to try to cut off the connection between Stepper and semiconductor field with China, so that they can achieve dominance and thus influence the development of China.But the current ban introduced by China is clearly aimed at retaliating.

After all, there is a saying called 'Thirty Years of Hedong and Thirty Years of Hexi',China cannot always be manipulated by others, and after the introduction of this ban by the Chinese side, many Western countries are feeling panic.

Export controls are China's key countermeasures

In fact, trade competition is a common occurrence, and China is not being cautious.However, in the past period of time, our side has been surrounded by too many countries' technology.

For example, in May this year,Japan has publicly announced export restrictions on over 20 types of semiconductor equipment and materials.But on the surface, they claim that this is not targeted at any country, and it has been proven that only China has a great demand for their materials and equipment.

In addition,The Netherlands in Europe has also begun to block China, saying that their Stepper will not be exported to China from September 1 this year,Even exports will have restrictions and conditions will become higher.

The Netherlands has always been a high-yield country of Stepper, especially its ASML company, which has always had close trade relations with China, but now it has committed such acts, so China has to choose to counter in order to break this shackle.

this timeChina regulates gallium and germanium because these two metals play an extremely important role in chip manufacturing and can be said to be irreplaceable. Now, these two elements have been included in the national strategic mineral list.

Anyone who knows about chemical elements or some metals knows that gallium can form compounds such as gallium arsenide or gallium nitride with other elements, and can form microwave and photoelectric properties. It is a necessary raw material for manufacturing high-end Stepper machines and chips. That is to say, we do so to tell themIf you don't let us import Stepper, we will be able to prevent you from manufacturing it.

Chinese phone calls were exploded within 24 hours

It is obvious that China's countermeasures are very effective. becauseLess than 24 hours after the ban was introduced, Japan and South Korea, two neighbors of Western countries and China, became anxious.Because although they all have good research and development capabilities in the field of chips, as the saying goes, a clever woman cannot cook without rice, and they even have no raw materials. What should they do?

thereforeThey immediately condemned China's actions, and Japan also claimed to want to understand China's intentions. However, this approach did not make China any moved.

Subsequently, these countries found that condemning China was useless and quickly contacted the companies that produced these two heavy metal elements in China. The phone numbers were almost destroyed.They hope to obtain an export license before the implementation of this regulation, otherwise it will indeed affect their chip development progress.

epilogue

In fact,When these countries are pursuing and blocking China's semiconductor industry, they should think of this pointBecause the storage capacity of gallium element in China has accounted for about 70% of the world's total, and this element is an essential element in the manufacturing of chips or other semiconductor fields.They are so cruel to China that they deserve to be punished now.

For a long time in the past, China maintained trade between these two elements with other countries at extremely low prices, in order to help each other and grow together.But Western countries seem to be ungrateful. Now that they have seen China's ban, they should also know that it was China's generosity and not to argue with them, rather than having no counter measures.

Author: Win

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