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Every iPhone, every AI model, every advanced microchip on earth requires a machine that only one company builds ASML, in Veldhoven, North Brabant Their EUV machines work by hitting a tin droplet with a laser 50,000 times per second, generating plasma that emits the light needed to print modern circuits The mirrors inside are so precisely flat that if you scaled one to the size of the Netherlands, the largest imperfection would be less than a millimetre No other company on earth can build this machine The United States cannot build it, China cannot buy it, and Taiwan's entire semiconductor industry depends on it Washington uses trade law to control where these machines go, because the most strategically critical technology on earth is made in a city of bike paths and brick houses in North Brabant The bottleneck of civilisation is in the Netherlands