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US ‘suggests’ EU impose a chip export ban on China ASML is not about to voluntarily leave China, where it has sold a thousand chip-making tools over the decades By   JEFF PAO OCTOBER 31, 2022 Dutch firm ASML thinks it gave up enough when it halted exports to China of the world's first extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines for mass production (pictured). It wants to keep exporting its older DUV technology despite American entreaties. Photo: ASML The United States reportedly is calling on the European Union to impose a semiconductor export ban on China – but Chinese officials and media doubt the Americans, simply by asking, can persuade the Europeans to give up a highly lucrative export market. Bloomberg  reports  that the Biden administration is urging the EU to share information and coordinate enforcement to reinforce the United States’s bilateral restrictions on exports to China, similar to what the US and EU did to Moscow earlier this year. That report comes after Alan E

DIANA JOHNSTONE: The Specter of Germany Is Rising September 12, 2022 To meet the imaginary Russian threat to Western Europe, Germany will lead an expanded, militarized EU. Olaf Scholz, federal chancellor of Germany, meets Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, in Kiev, Feb. 14, 2022.  (President of Ukraine) By  Diana Johnstone in Paris  Special to Consortium News T he European Union is girding for a long war against Russia that appears clearly contrary to European economic interests and social stability. A war that is apparently irrational – as many are – has deep emotional roots and claims ideological justification. Such wars are hard to end because they extend outside the range of rationality. For decades after the Soviet Union entered Berlin and decisively defeated the Third Reich, Soviet leaders worried about the threat of “German revanchism.” Since World War II could be seen as German revenge for being deprived of victory in World War I, couldn’t aggressive German  Drang nach