{"id":29963,"date":"2026-07-09T17:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/29963\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:17:27","slug":"dutch-trade-minister-in-china-for-high-stakes-talks-on-tech-war-tariff-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/29963\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch trade minister in China for high-stakes talks on tech war, tariff tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Dutch Trade Minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma departed for China on Monday for a high-stakes, three-day trade mission \u2013 amid intensifying tech competition between the US and China \u2013 with an agenda that includes a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Wentao and a CEO round table.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Sjoerdsma is accompanied by representatives from 17 Dutch companies from sectors including logistics, agriculture and hi-tech. The mission, which wraps up on Thursday, would also take him to Shanghai, where he was scheduled to meet with Dutch and Chinese companies, according to the statement from the Dutch government.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cOver the past few decades, we\u2019ve built robust trade ties with China, and our goal with this visit is to further strengthen our bilateral trade relationship,\u201d Sjoerdsma said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cRaising points of concern is part of that. I look forward to meeting my counterpart Wang Wentao in Beijing and discussing common opportunities and challenges in the area of trade,\u201d he said, vowing to \u201cmake every effort\u201d to promote the interests of Dutch businesses in China.<\/p>\n<p>The SCMP previously reported that <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/global-economy\/article\/3358208\/dutch-semiconductor-giants-join-delegation-china-us-pushes-chip-export-curbs-source?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dutch semiconductor giants ASML and NXP<\/a> would be part of the 17-company delegation as The Hague becomes increasingly tangled in the tech war between Beijing and Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dutch Trade Minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma departed for China on Monday for a high-stakes, three-day trade mission \u2013 amid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[19900,65,1362,87,7357,19899,19898,610,166,14236,761,1360,5835,19693,9357],"class_list":["post-29963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asml","tag-akzonobel","tag-asml","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-frieslandcampina","tag-groenlandgroup","tag-kpmg","tag-mvrdv","tag-nxp","tag-philips","tag-port-of-rotterdam","tag-shanghai","tag-sjoerd-sjoerdsma","tag-vion-foods","tag-wang-wentao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}