this theory would contradict with the national security reason used by the government though. I have read in Chinese sources that they plan to remove the European directors, reasons I don't know.
I've been advocating for years that US prescription medications should require dual sourcing and at least 50% domestic production purely for security reasons. You can ramp up from 50% with multiple providers a lot easier than 0.
* how critical Nexperia's chips are to national security
* how much this bogus order would harm Nexperia
If the bogus order is sufficiently harmful to important chip production, this could harm national security.