[0] https://apnews.com/article/business-china-beijing-global-tra... ("EU launches WTO action against China over Lithuania dispute")
[0] https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2461209/will-lithua...
Also one one of the biggest resellers of various products to Russia and other economically affiliated countries they don't even produce locally. e.g. https://www.tridge.com/news/strange-news-of-the-day-lithuani...
Also countries like Lithuania are not blacklisted. They are still allowed to buy GPUs/etc. below a certain cap. Realistically their domestic demand is nowhere near the cap. So what's' the problem exactly? (unless they want to resell those chips to third parties)
I'd put it another way, if demand is below the cap, then why have the cap? Why destroy relations for free? It's not like you can't do something if they are found to sell chips to China.
> if demand is below the cap, then why have the cap?
It might be for Lithuania. But the same 50,000 cap applies to Poland.
Anyway:
> Individual companies headquartered in tier two countries—for [...] can access significantly higher limits if they apply for their own national validated end user status. That process involves making verifiable security commitments, [...]. If a company obtains this status, its chip imports won’t count toward the country’s overall maximum cap
So this isn't an export ban as such.
Scenes like these are happening... and you could be next
US alone is meaningless, powerless and insignificant and needs friends and peers more desperately than ever, containing less than 5% of the world population. Sure you can go North Korea style but why lose everything that was gained so hard.
*whoosh*? Not sure, but that's either a videogame meme or some repurposed good ol' mid-20th Commie paranoia.
> less than 5% of the world population
85% of the world's handguns though.
(Yes, I made that up. Wikipedia says it's only 46%).
(Serious question: How do you apply export sanctions to one bit of a single market? Is this just theatre?)
The US has the world by the proverbial balls. It would take years before everyone can fully divest itself of US tech.
This is a foolishly dangerous assumption. America's premier digital exports are things that many other nations consider entirely unnecessary. The App Store? Illegal in parts of Europe. ChatGPT? Questionably valuable from the start. Facebook, X/Twitter, WhatsApp and iMessage are all NSA informants. We have examples of countries kicking FAANG out of their market, and these countries are perfectly successful in the long run.
You are very focused on the American lifestyle. I suspect you would be very surprised by how little Europe cares about American software businesses.
Poland couldnt enable them, I guess
Private sector is not going to make AI data center or research center in PL because power grid is one step from collapse and nuclear power plants are "planned" but I don't believe we will have one in 10 years.
So my comment is more of a playful kickback on parent speculating about ties with China - I can put my own speculation as well.
But, f*k me, the optics are terrible.
The EU will probably be locked out of the upcoming US negotiations with Russia the same way the Afghan government was locked out of American negotiations with the Taliban in Doha.