I would happily bet that I know a lot more about NXP than you do.

Dutch credibility took a hit when they sold it in the first place, imo that should have never happened. This is damage control, there were some pretty strict rules put in place around the acquisition and there were - strong - signals that these rules were not respected.

No, that's not the message it sends at all. It says: what's in the contracts matter. NL - and in consult with a lot of other countries that have a stake in this - gave conditional permission for this deal. That allowed the Chinese company to take effective control while still protecting the various interests in the IP and in the continuity of the company. NXP is not just a fab, it is much more than that and as such it is critical infrastructure for a large swath of EU and US industry. That's why I believe the sale was a mistake, but I can see how if the counterparty promises to abide by certain restrictions that they let the deal go through. What happened now is a direct result of activity related to bypassing those restrictions.

The fact that this is a mechanism that has been only extremely reluctantly used is proof positive that NL is open for business, and I'm pretty sure this will have immediate consequences for further acquisitions of EU tech by Chinese companies.