If Trump offers up EUV, workstation GPU plus other assorted things that China currently want but can't buy due to ban, so as to balance trade should China accept?
For Trump this doesn't seem like an impossibility, but on the other hand if China agrees it could hurt domestic efforts already underway.
China never banned people from buying EUV or GPUs, China never even banned anyone from buying Cisco.
But if Americans think they can sell EUV or GPUs above market value they're not going to make many sales.
A lot of people hasn't mentally adjusted to the reality that China isn't playing defence anymore. China doesn't need American EUV or GPUs, DeepSeek is releasing fronteer models for free just to f* with American AI, China is actively removing export rebates to raise prices, the only thing Americans should think about is what can they offer China to convince China to leave them a niche instead of getting anhiliated in every industry.
Case in point, if US want China to let them retain an auto industry, they can put a quota where at least 30% of American GDP must come from farming and 1/3 of US population must work on the farm, if they want China to allow them to maintain access to TSMC, they can commit to banning all development in EV, batteries and solar technology, if they want China to leave them a bone in AI instead of gutting their business with Deepseek, they can promise to cap their semiconductor industry to 1/10th China's size.
