> its sort of ironic for them to be trying to apply US law in China to punish Chinese law being applied to people in the US. There's no irony. This is some ge

> its sort of ironic for them to be trying to apply US law in China to punish Chinese law being applied to people in the US. There's no irony. This is some general information for HN readers to have some background context to unpack comments like the parent. 1) The entire Chinese legal system is beholden to the CCP, so you cannot compare Chinese and US legal systems or courts. 2) It's important to understand about the non-kinetic warfare doctrines of the CCP. One of them is "lawfare" (law warfare), which is using a target country's laws against themselves. This is very effective against an open society like the US. An example is that the CCP has funded US shell organizations to block the banning of Chinese apps in the US, in US courts. Also, WeChat is used as a means for the CCP in mainland China to exercise control over diaspora, so it really needs to be banned outside China. One of the abuses was using WeChat to have American Chinese hoard PPE supplies this spring and mail them to China. So when an open society tries to defend itself, you end up with what appears to be an "ironic" situation, but was actually choreographed by the CCP.