> If that chain stays out of EU data protection agency reach, enforcement is a non-issue. But if Germany and China were to enter a bilateral agreement (as the U

> If that chain stays out of EU data protection agency reach, enforcement is a non-issue. But if Germany and China were to enter a bilateral agreement (as the US will). this is a very good point actually, GDPR will probably also be used in trade agreements as a requirement, in which the EU has a lot of leverage compared to most other nations/trading blocks across the world. In the end, the reason the EU can do it is simply because it has enough political leverage to make this happen. edit: To add to this, I think these kind of things will be good in the long run, especially when the EU starts more trading talks with smaller nations, which are usually very eager to get into a trade agreement with the EU, especially for african nations as it usually allows more ways for legal migration and includes foreign aid a lot of the times.