if the Dutch state was a dog what would its name be and would it prefer to fetch a stick or a ball
It cites NRC (the Dutch New York Times) about how the CEO of Nexperia has been repeatedly fined and even jailed for illegal business practices, which somehow Dutch and American regulators missed when screening buyers, which feels like another case of the West not taking China seriously and not doing their proper due diligence, now blaming China by saying they’re soft on financial crimes.
The article is very strange in general in how combative, almost desparate it feels about controlling the narrative: Chinese investors “spewing bile on Xiaohongshu”, saying that the CEO is the real pirate in this story! Then this bit at the end:
This conflict isn’t about geopolitics, but about the malpractice of an executive that turned desperate in the face of geopolitics. (own translation)
The article (in Dutch): https://web.archive.org/web/20251027202754/https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/10/16/nexperia-topman-wing-had-al-jaren-lak-aan-regels-kreeg-boetes-en-kreeg-celstraf-a4909796
