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While the article talks about the possibility of the UK government blocking a sale to Nvidia, the situation with Brexit and the need to get trade deals with the US means it's really likely the government here would allow the sale to go ahead should the US government make it a condition of a deal. Brexit has screwed the UK.

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A US trade deal is a symbolic and political victory but makes virtually no difference economically. I don’t think the UK government will calculate that prospect of one would outweigh losing ARM.

I don't have the same level of confidence you do – the current UK government's strategy is very much "symbolic and political" over absolutely all other concerns.

Faced with the political impact of "that amazing US trade deal we promised you is off the table" versus "a company you probably haven't actually heard of, which was already Japanese-owned, is becoming US-owned"… well, I don't have much confidence.

you misspelt shambolic.

You're assuming that the UK government is a rational actor optimising for the economics of the country...

Chess-wise, it seems a bit of a skewer: lose ARM by sale, or lose ARM by RISC-V?

(Is it still true the UK-US trade deal is awaiting elections in the latter? EU-UK has certainly not been progressing.)

To answer your second question, yes.

You're ignoring decades if not centuries of politics and economic data. This is an insane claim so I'd love to see citations.

The purpose of elected government is to get re-elected. Why would they change a tactic if it worked?

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