The article: https://archive.md/yQezP

ASML Holding NV canceled shipments of some of its machines to China at the request of US President Joe Biden’s administration, weeks before export bans on the high-end chipmaking equipment came into effect, people familiar with the matter said.

When the invisible hand of the market is not giving handjobs to the right people

Wennink has publicly opposed the measures and warned they might encourage China to develop competing technology. “The more you put them under pressure, the more likely it is that they will double up their efforts,” he said last year in an interview with Bloomberg News.

Biden is cracking down on Beijing’s semiconductor industry.

Lmao the arrogance

Free market for me but not for thee

I read that as ASMR and was bloody confused for a good second.