Deal with U.S. comes as President Biden seeks to slow China’s military development

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Under the deal, the Netherlands will bar ASML from selling to China at least some equipment essential to making cutting-edge chips.

Photo: Bart van Overbeeke/ASML/REUTERS

WASHINGTON—Japan and the Netherlands have agreed with the U.S. to start restricting exports of advanced chip-manufacturing equipment to China, joining efforts by the Biden administration to slow China’s military development by cutting access to advanced technologies.

The agreement was reached Friday at a meeting in Washington between top national-security officials from the three countries, according to people familiar with the situation, a result of the Biden administration’s effort to convince allies to implement export controls on their companies with critical technologies. 

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