Iain Duncan Smith, former Conservative Party leader, said: \u201cThis is what China does all the time. It poses a threat to the way we live our lives, industry, and the individual freedom of Hong Kong dissidents.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Luke de Pulford, who leads the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, commented: \u201cOne wonders how many bald transgressions have to be seen before the government accepts what every onlooker can plainly see: China presents a serious threat to U.K. security and resilience.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
A U.K. government spokesperson said: \u201cWe are monitoring the situation closely and remain in touch with Dutch counterparts regarding actions taken in relation to Nexperia.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Nexperia said: \u201cNexperia Manchester site continues to operate as usual,\u201d and the measures taken by the Dutch government \u201chave restored good governance in the company, ensuring that no undue influence can be exercised by the former CEO on decision making processes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The spokesperson for Wingtech added: \u201cWingtech Technology is the lawful controlling shareholder of Nexperia, and Nexperia is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wingtech Technology\u2014there is no need, nor any basis, to \u2018steal\u2019 technology from a subsidiary.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the start of October, Beijing halted the export of Nexperia components from China, following the move by the Netherlands, sending ripples through the Western auto industry, which uses the chips for things like locks, speedometers, and climate control systems.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iain Duncan Smith, former Conservative Party leader, said: \u201cThis is what China does all the time. It poses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,626,891,144,59,6231,6875,99275,555,13108,386,99276,9215,1351,8736,642,426,56,54,158,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-233973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-exports","12":"tag-gb","13":"tag-governance","14":"tag-hong-kong","15":"tag-iain-duncan-smith","16":"tag-industry","17":"tag-intellectual-property","18":"tag-japan","19":"tag-matt-western","20":"tag-resilience","21":"tag-security","22":"tag-supply-chains","23":"tag-the-netherlands","24":"tag-trade","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}