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The Italian market doesn’t have to apply to Google USA either. Companies can always choose to ignore a specific nation’s laws[1], they don’t still get access t
by lovich 4y ago
The Italian market doesn’t have to apply to Google USA either.
Companies can always choose to ignore a specific nation’s laws[1], they don’t still get access to that nations markets. At the borders the nation state is the one with the guns and firewalls
[1] unless you piss off a nation that can project global power, lol if you piss off China or America
- justinclift 4y agoFirst time I've heard of China projecting "global power". Are there cases of it happening?
- dmitriid 4y agoApple complying with Chinese laws, and providing Chinese government access to private data. Google, Facebook etc. being blocked in China. etc.
- hef19898 4y agoAll over Africa, in a more heo political sense. Also along the new silk road all the way to Europe. Just to name two.
- lovich 4y agohttps://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1714248/more-chinese-police-officers-sent-overseas-hunt-down-its-fugitives?linker=1%2a1m2xfne%2aclientId%2aYW1wLXRwcVlzTk1jNzBCbUhPaEF2eXJHdkE https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1714248/more-chinese.... Chinese and American police forces both operate abroad and like to flex their power. The NYPD was in a similar situation post 9/11 when they started trying to police nearby states and when they sent operatives to other countries even against their own federal government [1]. Russias also sent operatives overseas in some fairly public assassinations. It’s not really surprising that China does this, it appears to be the default operating procedure of powerful countries [1] http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/the-stream/the-stream-officialblog/2014/1/7/nypd-s-overseas-presencecriticizedbyfederalofficials.html http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/the-stream/the-stre...
- psychoslave 4y agohttps://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/china-the-arctic https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/china-the-arctic https://thediplomat.com/2021/08/chinas-presence-in-africa-is-at-heart-political/ https://thediplomat.com/2021/08/chinas-presence-in-africa-is... https://www.cadtm.org/Chinese-geopolitics-continuities-inflections-uncertainties https://www.cadtm.org/Chinese-geopolitics-continuities-infle...