Dutch minister smugly slides knight across the board: “Check.”

China looks on in confusion, takes knight with a pawn

Dutch minister looks at camera, still smug: “I’d do it again.”

Netherlands suspends state seizure of nexperia

Days since Europe took another L zero

People saying that China “capitulated” to global capitalism or whatever can start apologizing now.

“Suspends”? Don’t they mean “reverses”? This was a done thing that they are undoing. The guardian was one of the greatest western spin machines but its starting to clunk like an unbalanced washing machine.

Now the entire company will move to China. We’ll played.

“Dutch government forced to return stolen property once they faced repercussions.”