4月11日，荷兰金融日报(FD) 报道称，中国籍员工从荷兰半导体设备制造商ASML窃取商业秘密，给ASML造成数亿美元损失。

　　对此，外交部发言人陆慷4月11日在外交部例行记者会上回应称，不了解具体情况，但中国的科技发展一不靠偷，二不靠抢，是中国人民用自己的智慧和汗水，辛勤奋斗出来的。

　　针对此事件，ASML今天也发布公告称，并不认可这一说法，ASML并不是“国家阴谋”的受害者。该报道中所提到的案件，是之前发生在美国的一起公开的诉讼案件。在该案件中，一家名为XTAL的公司被法院裁定在2015年盗用ASML的商业秘密，ASML因而胜诉。以下为公告全文：

　　从公告中可以看出，该事件发生在数年以前，这些ASML的前员工来自不同的国家，由于窃取和泄露ASML掩膜优化的软件信息而违反雇佣合同。此软件是ASML全方位产品和解决方案中的一小部分。

　　他们利用窃取的商业秘密制造竞品，并将其出售至ASML在韩国的客户。这家名为XTAL的公司，拥有来自韩国和中国的资金支持。在圣塔克拉拉县高等法院（Santa Clara Superior Court）的裁决中，基于其窃取商业秘密所获得的利益和ASML所损失的销售机会，XTAL公司被判向ASML支付2.23亿美元的赔偿金。这一审判结果对XTAL公司的影响巨大，该公司目前已破产。

　　ASML官方声明原文：

　　ASML disagrees with any implication thatit has been victim of "Chinese espionage", as stated in an article inDutch financial newspaper Financieele Dagblad earlier on Thursday, 11 April2019. The article discusses the results of a public court case in the UnitedStates that ASML had initiated and won last year, in which a company calledXTAL was found by a jury to have misappropriated ASML's confidential andproprietary information and trade secrets in 2015.

　　"The suggestion that we were somehowvictim of a national conspiracy is wrong. The facts of the matter are that wewere robbed by a handful of our own employees based in Silicon Valley, who hadbroken the law to enrich themselves. All of this occurred several yearsago. We found this out by ourselves and immediately sought legal action inpublic court in 2016. This was reported on in several publications after ourvictory in November 2018," said ASML President and Chief Executive OfficerPeter Wennink.

　　While still employed by ASML, theseemployees, with various nationalities, stole software for mask optimization, aspecific small part of ASML