HARDBALL: Netherlands Seizes Chinese Semiconductor Firm. “The fact the Dutch government so readily acceded to U.S. requests suggests that the case against Nexperia was pretty substantial, and the specter of possibly open conflict with an increasingly bellicose Russia may have played a factor in their decision making. Nailing down key supply chain components, no matter how lowly, is both far-sighted and suggests there’s more to this situation than meets the eye.”