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Also I'm sure that crimes committed by billionaires are selectively prosecuted. This one one seems particularly political, given her crime was trading with Ir

Also I'm sure that crimes committed by billionaires are selectively prosecuted. This one one seems particularly political, given her crime was trading with Iran against U.S. law. Funny that she is not a U.S. citizen, though. I wonder how would the U.S. feel if China arrested a U.S billionaire in a third-party country because they broke a Chinese law. File this under "might makes right", I guess.

dirtyid 5y ago
Yeah typically companies get prosecuted for evading Iranian sanctions, rarely individuals, and rarely politically significant individuals. The additional layer of context is DoD started the China Initiative month before which explicitly called for extradition of Chinese nationals for tech espionage. As far as I'm aware, it's the first time US drafted policy to specifically target one country over something general like industrial espionage. So it would be like China getting a third party to arrest a US national under a nacent PRC's Extradite American Act. Then said third party pretend US should totally be OK with them executing PRC foreign policy because it was "legal". The main stream Canadia interpretation of Meng/Michaels drama has been utterly detached from geopolitical reality.