Re: All I hear is whining
The U.S. is stopping them from buying from anyone. That’s the point. Foreign companies have to comply with US export regulations, even if the U.S. isn’t involved in the transaction.
For example, Renesas a Japanese company, cannot sell certain products to certain countries without U.S. approval. ASML, a Dutch company that is the sole manufacturer of EUVL cannot sell EUVL photolithography equipment to anyone outside the Netherlands without U.S. approval. There is no HPC or AI at scale without EUVL. Since the U.S. controls who can manufacture high performance semiconductors and controls where finished goods can be sold, the U.S. strangles the global market.
It’s not just semiconductors either. Grundfos, a company in Denmark, provides the coolant system pumps and fluid system components for hyperscale data centers, and they have to get approval from the U.S. for sales.
Complying with U.S. export regulations, even if the U.S. isn’t involved in the transaction, is a part of doing any business in the U.S. Companies that sell export regulated products (which includes obvious things like aerospace, defense, and technology, but also agricultural products, synthetic foodstuffs, medical devices and drugs, intellectual property, and transportation products) have to support the political agendas of the U.S. if they want to do any business here.
It’s why most of the world, even our allies, accuse the U.S. of being an imperialist state and why small countries really dislike the U.S. The policies of institutionalized market manipulation really do prevent growth of other economies and keep a lot of the world held down.
