Buyers all over the planet would benefit from the continued expansion of cheap Chinese YMTC chips like in middle of 2023, but it would not benefit the Western oligopoly of Samsung, WD, Hynix, Toshiba, Kioxia, etc.
The oligopoly won by banning the supply of ASML equipment to YMTC factories, and the buyers lost....
And the same Western system, screaming about the authorities "subsidizing" production in China, for some reason does not consider the anti-market mechanisms to support its producers for almost $300 billion to be the same brazen violation.
The entire planet saw the duplicity of Western morality and "principles." The main thing is money and selfish interest...