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		okasaki 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high ... But when the US government orders a Taiwanese company to stop selling chips to a Chinese company that's just fine right?

_ugfj 9 months ago [–]

They don't quite do that.

You will notice they only order US companies to do so.

ASML, however, abides by U.S. export control regulations because that was a requirement for the approval of the acquisition of SVG.

Everything flows from there.

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