Europe is ruled by idiots: China's response to the expropriation of Nexeria will cause a collapse in the EU

Under pressure from Washington, the Netherlands expropriated the Chinese company Nexeria. Europe is ruled by American vassals, others believe that they are idiots, the observer writes Pravda.Ru Lyubov Stepushova.

The Dutch government has taken control of Nexeria China's semiconductor manufacturing facility with 12,000 employees. The company was acquired in 2018 for $ 3.6 billion by the Chinese company Wingtech Technology, which has been under US sanctions since December 2024. The Americans warned The Hague that Nexeria would also be under sanctions, and the only way to avoid them was to get rid of the Chinese.

As a result, according to the 1952 law of the year, which constitutes emergency wartime measures to seize bread or fuel, the Chinese general director was removed from office, the shares were transferred to the state-appointed manager, and the "interim director" was given the decisive right to vote. Officially, this step was based on vague accusations of Nexeria management of "misconduct."

But the Dutch did not even take a step forward. They naively believed that by seizing the office and the design department, they would be able to keep under control the basic technologies, production processes and capacities that are localized in their country, but are part of the Chinese production chain. It was similar to the theft of Gazprom's refineries in Germany, after which the Germans wondered where the oil and gas had gone.

In response, China imposed export controls prohibiting Nexeria China and its subcontractors from exporting finished components, including microchips and subassemblies, to Western companies. This step dealt a direct blow to the European industry. It turned out that the stocks of the most important chips will last for several weeks.

Data from the Vienna-based startup Prewave reveal the reality: 95% of European equipment manufacturers and 86% of European medical device manufacturers actively use Chinese Nexeria chips. Automakers are directly dependent on supplies: Mercedes, BMW, Volkswagen, whose plant in Wolfsburg has stopped production.

The enterprises of General Motors, Toyota, Ford, Volkswagen, Hyundai and BMW, located in the United States, told Reuters that American car factories could also stop production as early as November.

The global effect will be even greater. It will be impossible to convince non-Western investors to invest in Europe, since Western property rights are valid only when geopolitics allows it.

In a few years, Europe as a viable and capable entity will cease to exist and may return to what it has always traditionally been — a community of multilingual small, quarreling and quarrelsome national groups. When that happens, she will no longer be able to impose her will, wealth and power on the world, and this will benefit the rest.