China’s new ambassador to the Netherlands, Shen Bo, is urging the Dutch government to withdraw the Nexperia case at the Amsterdam Enterprise Chamber. Speaking to press agency ANP, Shen called it a necessary first step to defuse the standoff around the Nijmegen-based chipmaker. “It’s a business dispute and should therefore be handled in a businesslike manner,” he said.
The Dutch government suspended its intervention in November 2025 as a goodwill signal, but the court-ordered measures – including the suspension of CEO Zhang “Wing” Xuezheng, founder of Nexperia’s owner Wingtech – remain in place. The Enterprise Chamber is due to decide whether to order a formal investigation into Nexperia’s management, which would keep the interim measures in place.
China has framed the Dutch actions as destabilizing supply chains and, at times, tightened exports tied to Nexperia’s China operations, forcing automakers to seek workarounds and exemptions. Beijing says the suspension of the intervention by the Dutch government doesn’t go far enough and wants the court process halted altogether.
