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last year a shortage of chips led to supply chain disruption around the world meaning delays to everything from cars to washing machines and of course, computers. and now, the dutch government has announced that it will impose new export restrictions on advanced chips being sold to china. the dutch have some of the most significant companies in the field and china is keen to buy them but the us have been putting pressure on european countries to curb exports of sensitive technology to china on national security grounds. our correspondent anna holligan is in the hague. one of europe s smallest nations has found itself in the middle of a battle between the world s two biggest superpowers. and at the heart of it, microchips. they power everything from our mobile phones to military hardware. and the us has been applying political pressure on countries to limit exports. now the netherlands is home to asml until recently a relatively obscure company, but it makes the most a ....

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