handed US pressure to comply

with French President Macron calling it “super aggressive.” To top it off, the CHIPS and Science Act of October 2022, setting strict technology export control rules toward China, was accompanied by heavy-handed US pressure to comply, as shown by the Dutch ASML case. Even the threat to end US participation in NATO has been heard before. Back in 2000, US Secretary of State William Cohen warned that if the EU’s newly launched European Security and Defense Policy was aimed at autonomy, NATO could become “a relic of the past.” President Obama’s Secretary of State, Robert Gates, stirred panic among European allies when, in his farewell address in June 2011, he put them on guard: “Future US political leaders may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.” สล็อต