(Image credit: ASML) The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies has rated the Dutch semiconductor industry as being at very high risk of Chinese foreign interference in a recent report, placing it above the maritime and aerospace sectors, and citing years of espionage against ASML and NXP. Written by Benedetta Girardi and Hans Horan for the China Knowledge Network, a body funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the study calls for stricter vetting of personnel at sensitive chip sites and a public-private fund to swap out high-risk foreign hardware, including server motherboards and baseboard management controllers. Both authors expanded on the findings in interviews with Nikkei Asia last week. Go deeper with TH Premium: Chipmaking The report sorts Beijing's methods into five categories: economic statecraft, digital and information operations, physical interference, legal pressure, and talent-based technological espionage.…