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Chinese access to chip manufacturing equipment is apparently being restricted by the US, Netherlands, and Japan

According to Bloomberg, the United States, the Netherlands, and Japan do not intend to make the deal public. Furthermore, an implementation might take “months” while the nations sort out the legal kinks. “Talks have been going on for a long time, but we don’t talk about it. And if anything comes out of this, it is dubious if it will be made extremely prominent,” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte remarked on Friday in response to a query about the talks.