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Re:Netherlands blocks ASML exports to China in partial licen... by Aachen on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @07:40AM (#38853377)
Or anyone, including ourselves, if you look beyond the short term "they can't make fast chips for a few years". Even the elderly folk currently calling these shots will likely still be alive when the consequences materialise

Or maybe I'm overlooking something, I'm no macroeconomic strategist, just someone who was taught in high school that we learned from previous walled economies

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Re:Netherlands blocks ASML exports to China in partial licen... by itsoktocry on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @07:53AM (#38853483)
>Even the elderly folk currently calling these shots will likely still be alive when the consequences materialise

What are the consequences you speak of? The entire point is "they can't make fast chips for a few years"; we are preparing for confrontation.

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Re:Netherlands blocks ASML exports to China in partial licen... by rightbyte on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @07:53AM (#38853480)
You are not missing anything. Things like these are mainly virtue signaling and the decision makers are indifferent to the consequences for us, is my take.
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Re:Netherlands blocks ASML exports to China in partial licen... by RandomLensman on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @07:56AM (#38853509)
Are you saying it needs to be more like CoCom to matter?
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Re:Netherlands blocks ASML exports to China in partial licen... by itsoktocry on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @07:54AM (#38853491)
>Things like these are mainly virtue signaling

No military implications, huh? Just anti-China virtue signaling?

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Re:Netherlands blocks ASML exports to China in partial licen... by rightbyte on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @10:57AM (#38855533)
Yes. The military mainly use obsolete equipment when compared to civilian standards because reasons. There is no military angle to this at all other than maybe the hope of making diplomatic relations worse to bring one.
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Re:Netherlands blocks ASML exports to China in partial licen... by RandomLensman on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @07:55AM (#38853502)
Not sure CoCom was a failure during the cold war.
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