Belgian prosecutors have held a 52-year-old man in pre-trial detention since 10 May on suspicion of passing chip-making secrets to China. He holds Belgian and Chinese nationality. Police arrested him at Brussels Airport as he was about to board a flight to Beijing, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement on Monday. That is four months after the fact. The man held a senior research position at BelGaN, the gallium nitride chip maker in Oudenaarde that went bankrupt in July 2024. Francophone broadcaster RTBF and the Flemish daily De Standaard broke the story on Monday morning. Reuters, AP, Bloomberg,…