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SITUATION EXPLAINED: A Chinese state-backed company started mass-producing DUV lithography tools, a step below EUV but still significant. • ASML shares fell as much as 6.5%, their lowest since early June, after The Information reported a Shanghai-based, state-backed company began mass-producing immersion DUV lithography machines • The company is...

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Chinese AI models are about seven months behind the best American ones, even though China has roughly 5% of the AI chips the US does. The seven-month figure comes from Epoch AI, which has tracked the gap since 2023. The 5% is a rough estimate from Anand Kannappan, who runs the evaluation company Patronus AI. If the US has 20 times the chips, you would expect its models to be more than seven months ahead. The lead stays that small because training a model has a finish line. You borrow enough chips, run the training, and you are done. Serving millions of users every day never finishes, and Chinese labs do not have the chips for that. Moonshot (a Chinese AI lab) launched its flagship model in July, suspended new subscriptions after three days because it ran out of computing power, and eight days later published the model for free so anyone could download and run it themselves. DeepSeek (a Chinese lab spun out of a Hangzhou hedge fund) ran its entire global service at a peak of 278 nodes, about 2,000 chips. MacroPolo's Global AI Talent Tracker (which surveys the major machine-learning conferences) finds that 38% of the world's top-tier AI researchers did their undergraduate degrees in China against 24% in America, and that 72% of the China-educated ones now work at American institutions. China trains more top AI researchers than any other country, most of them leave to work in America, and Chinese models still trail by only seven months. The chips China is short on are all printed by one kind of machine: an EUV lithography scanner. One Dutch company builds it, at about $380 million and 165 tons apiece. Under US pressure, the Dutch license to send one to China lapsed in mid-2019, and none has been issued since. ASML tracks all 314 operational machines on Earth for connectivity, so it knows where every one of them is.

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ACCELERATOR-BASED LITHOGRAPHY AND THE INDUCTION STORAGE RING LIGHT SOURCE The future of chipmaking may look less like a factory and more like a power grid. The proposed “Terafab” paradigm reimagines semiconductor manufacturing at utility scale: chip design, wafer fabrication, EUV lithography, memory, advanced packaging, and testing all under one roof, with the ambition of producing more than one terawatt of AI compute capacity per year. Its most radical innovation is treating light as a utility. Today, each EUV scanner relies on its own laser-produced plasma source, firing lasers at molten tin to generate 13.5 nm light. The process is inefficient, intensely hot, debris-heavy, and difficult to scale. Terafab replaces those individual sources with centralized, accelerator-driven free-electron lasers capable of distributing multi-kilowatt EUV light across an entire network of scanners. The advantages could be transformative: • No tin contamination or destructive plasma debris • Higher efficiency through electron-beam energy recovery • Greater photon flux to suppress stochastic defects at sub-3 nm nodes • Redundant accelerators that keep scanners operating during maintenance • Tunable wavelengths, potentially enabling 6.x nm “Beyond EUV” lithography THAT LAST POINT MATTERS ENORMOUSLY Conventional EUV is locked to the atomic emission of tin. Free-electron lasers are not. Their wavelength can be tuned through the energy of the electron beam creating a possible path beyond today’s 13.5 nm limit. If realized, Terafab would represent more than a larger semiconductor plant. It would transform lithography from a collection of isolated tools into shared industrial infrastructure. The next era of chipmaking may not be defined by a better machine. It may be defined by an entirely new architecture for manufacturing intelligence at civilization scale.

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The CEO of ASML delivered the most diplomatically worded indictment of European tech policy you'll ever hear (Save this). His core argument is simple, sovereignty without innovation is a slogan. You cannot declare yourself independent from American and Chinese AI if you have nothing of your own to be independent with. The data makes his point for him because only 4 of the world's 50 largest tech companies are European. 73% of all foundational AI models developed since 2017 came from the US, 15% from China, and Europe basically has none. Europe's best AI researchers train at ETH Zurich, Oxford, and TU Munich then move to San Francisco. The regulation problem is what makes European founders the most furious. The EU has approximately 100 tech-focused laws and over 270 active digital regulators. The AI Act, GDPR, the Digital Services Act, and the Digital Markets Act each add compliance cost, slow deployment, and make Europe a structurally worse place to build a company at scale. ASML itself is actually the counterexample that proves the rule. Fouquet is on an active internal mission to strip out the bureaucratic weight that accumulated as the company tripled in size, returning engineers to doing engineering instead of sitting in meetings. ASML reinvests 30% of profit into R&D and operates on a 15-year technology roadmap with the discipline of a deep-tech startup. It is culturally more like a Silicon Valley company that happens to be located in Eindhoven and that is precisely why it is the only European tech company that the entire world cannot function without. Fouquet's conclusion is the most honest thing a major European executive has said Europe has ASML, a large consumer market, and not much else in the AI stack. Being a customer is not the same as being a builder, and in a world where the AI stack is controlled by whoever builds it, being a big buyer means being permanently dependent on the goodwill of whoever you're buying from.

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A New 957-Room Chinese Hotel Just Opened in the City Chinese Investors Are Leaving Huan Hai Hotel has opened on Ocheuteal Beach in Sihanoukville. It is the centerpiece of Huanhai Bolai International, a $168 million Chinese-held development approved by the Council for the Development of Cambodia in late 2022, built by the state-owned Chinese contractor Shanghai Baoye and promoted as part of the Belt and Road Initiative. The 957-room, five-star tower is now operating, its facade lit at night and fountains running at the entrance. It is also hiring. A recruitment notice lists roles from sales and marketing to Chinese-language translators, with monthly salaries of $800 to $1,500, well above the local norm for hospitality work. The pay points to a property aimed squarely at Chinese guests. The timing is what stands out. CamboJA reported in April that a second wave of Chinese departures has followed the anti-scam crackdown that began in late 2025, and a property consultant cited by the outlet estimated that around 400 buildings remain stalled across downtown Sihanoukville. The same consultant was direct about the cause. Scam compounds had become a major source of occupancy and economic activity in the city, and dismantling them removes much of the demand those towers were built to serve. That is the environment Huan Hai is entering. Most of the large compounds are gone, with some smaller operations reportedly still active, but the city is quiet and its reputation is slower to recover. Drawing Chinese tourists and investors back will take more than a single crackdown. It will require an effort sustained long enough, and visibly enough, that the scam industry does not simply return once attention moves elsewhere.

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“It’s just to highlight just how much dominance America has over Iran right now. It has dominated the Iranian theocracy’s skyline. It is able to strike anywhere at any time, at will. It has demonstrated that not just by the strike on Kargh Island and by sparing Iran’s oil refineries there, but also by decapitating its leadership time and again. The American and Israeli alliance in striking Iran is able to strike anywhere at any time at will. And what that really indicates is that the Iranian regime stands completely isolated, has no chance of winning. But crucially, the Americans and Israelis would not be dominating the skyline in Iran if the Russians and the Chinese had not taken a step back. The only way you stop another country dominating a sky is by sending your own jets to stop them. Iran doesn’t have an air force. It would have had to have been the Russian or Chinese. The Chinese aren’t going to get involved anytime soon. And the Russians clearly, as they’ve indicated, have decided to stand back. And in fact, from Syria, the Russian Navy voluntarily withdrew. So all of this appears to us to reconfirm the idea that the world is being divided into spheres of influence, as we have said repeatedly on radical media. Venezuela was part of that. Syria was part of it. The American sphere of influence will include Venezuela and Cuba. The Middle East will be settled in the way that we’re currently witnessing for it to emerge eventually its own sphere of influence led by the Sunni Muslim Arabs of the region. Russia gets its own sphere of influence and Ukraine will be settled in Russia’s favour and China will get its own sphere of influence and Taiwan will be settled probably in China’s favour. So you end up with a Russian sphere, a Chinese sphere, a NATO stroke Western sphere and a Middle Eastern sphere” Maajid Nawaz for WARRIOR CREED:

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An 82-year-old Cuban pilot went viral on Chinese social media after recounting his friendship with and studies in China during the 1960s and asking about the cost of a flight from Havana to Beijing to a Chinese tourist. Living in a cramped room with just one bed in Cuba, the 82-year-old is known as "Tito" on Chinese social media. When a Chinese female tourist walked by his door, he tried to converse with her despite her language barrier and initial shock. The girl later discovered that Tito was a Cuban pilot who studied aviation in Shanxi Province, China, from 1961 to 1963. Tito showed her his Chinese PLA graduation certificate and told her that he missed China and that most of his pilot friends had already died. After that, he asked how much a plane ticket from Havana to Beijing would cost. The girl later shared the video on Chinese social media, describing Tito as "the lonely grandfather in Cuba." She mentioned that Tito kept a little notebook in which he planned to jot down his inquiries for the Chinese and his wish lists for sites to visit in China. It appears that he had made repeated attempts to strike up conversations with Asian tourists who passed his door, but they all thought he was strange and quickly left. In Tito's notebook, you can still see Chinese expressions like "How are you?" "When will you leave?" and "When are you planning to return?" Tito's story has moved many Chinese internet users, who are rallying to help him get a plane ticket to China or locate his Chinese friends. In September 1961, the Cuban Air Force chose 223 young pilots (average age less than 20) to study in China. They were among the first international students to come to China, as the Chinese netizens learnt later. A Chinese netizen later claimed on social media that his grandfather was Tito's teacher at the time. The story of Tito has gone viral on Chinese social media. The official account of the Chinese PLA Air Force left a comment under Tito’s video, stating that they had been attempting to get in touch with Tito. The comment said that the Chinese PLA will never forget a friend like Tito and that their friendship will transcend space and time. Today is the Lantern Festival in China, a time for family reunions. The Chinese embassy in Cuba invited Tito and other Cuban pilots who had studied in China for their youth to attend the festival feast, where they reminisced and sang many Chinese songs together. The Chinese have an old proverb: "滴水之恩当涌泉相报" (A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring), being grateful is a virtue in Chinese culture; we always give back when someone helps us. The life and work of Canadian surgeon Norman Bethune is a topic included in Chinese school curricula; his heroic contributions to our cause during World War II are emphasized in our textbooks, and his legacy lives on in China. John Rabe, a German merchant who rescued some 250,000 Chinese people from the Nanjing Massacre, and his family are still very much loved and respected by the Chinese people. Thomas Rabe, a doctor at the medicinal Faculty of Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, southwest Germany, and grandson of John Rabe, sent a plea to the Chinese embassy in Germany in March 2020 for medicinal supplies to help his hospital battle the COVID-19 pandemic. In April 2020, with all of the necessary assistance and coordination, medical supplies given from various sources, including medicines, protective suits, and masks, arrived in Germany from China. Chinese embassy staff raced from Berlin to Heidelberg, a distance of 700 kilometers, to expedite the delivery of supplies to the Heidelberg administration, the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University, and Dr. Thomas Rabe.

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