Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans warned on May 31 that Chinese cyber espionage targeting the Netherlands is intensifying, with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) particularly focused on stealing advanced semiconductor technology.
“The semiconductor industry, which we are technologically leading—or technology advanced, of course—to get that intellectual property, that’s interesting to China,” Brekelmans told Reuters on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue security forum in Singapore on May 30.