eurpoe has a giant weapon it could use against the US in an economic war

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14. Not Many High End Chips Are Made In The US.

So, a ban on export of the fabricators to the US wouldn’t have as much of an effect as you might anticipate. The majority of high end chips (those necessary for AI, for example), are predominantly made in Taiwan and South Korea (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, aka TSMC, being the largest manufacturer). It would really take an export ban from Taiwan and South Korea to hurt our AI development. And with the US’s economic heavyweight status, neither country is likely to slit its own throat.

In that proposed scenario, China might be willing to buy what the US no longer could, but there aren’t many governments (first and foremost being Taiwan itself) which want to see China utilizing those chips: A further-empowered Chinese Communist Party-run government is not a great idea…and a really bad idea from Taiwan’s perspective.