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> ASML isn't controlled by the Dutch government.

Of course they are. The Dutch government is who ordered ASML to not export their brand new stuff to China.

Actually it was the usa presuring the Dutch government.

Distinction without a difference

ASML licensed technologies from US companies during the development of EUV. That's what gives the US the leverage to do things like block sales to China.

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