After all this time, the EU arms embargo is still on the books due to the 6.4 incident a few decades ago.Since that time, China's military has made progress in its modernization.
Also, the Europeans apparently still sold some stuff that could have been part of the embargo, but looked the other way. Forget now. LOL.
The US can tell the Europeans to put into place another arms embargo on China.
That is part of the claim according to the Americans of why European companies should shun selling advanced IC materials to China, due to its potential military use.
The United States federal government has banned Huawei maybe over ten times now.
They probably want the Europeans to repeat the arms embargo.
To take a harder line on China!