<story><title>Huawei Could Divide the World</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-20/how-huawei-could-divide-the-world</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xrd</author><text>Can someone explain how a Chinese company is subject to a US embargo?&lt;p&gt;And, at the risk of getting political, whether the idea raised in the article about the success of China in the last forty years being due to abandoning their isolationism is at direct odds with a trade embargo anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xster</author><text>No need to worry about it getting political because it is a political rather than a judicial act. Otherwise, imagine private citizen board members or executives of HSBC being arrested or extradited (US-UK have extradition) for actually &amp;#x27;violating sanctions&amp;#x27; with Iran, Libya, Sudan, Burma and Cuba in 2012.&lt;p&gt;The sanction itself is purely political as well. The US overthrows the Iranian democratically elected government to maintain BP&amp;#x27;s regional dominance because the government threatened to use their country&amp;#x27;s natural resources&amp;#x27; profits to benefit its people. Installs puppet and helps the puppet plan to build 23 nuclear reactors (and the secret police Savak among other things). Puppet gets overthrown by the people and now Iran has &amp;#x27;nuclear ambitions&amp;#x27;. And that&amp;#x27;s after getting the other puppet Saddam to go to war with Iran and then getting rid of the other puppet because now he&amp;#x27;s US armed like ISIS. And now Iran has a sanction and the sanction is used against other countries.&lt;p&gt;This is a pyramid scheme of imperialism.</text></comment>
<story><title>Huawei Could Divide the World</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-20/how-huawei-could-divide-the-world</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xrd</author><text>Can someone explain how a Chinese company is subject to a US embargo?&lt;p&gt;And, at the risk of getting political, whether the idea raised in the article about the success of China in the last forty years being due to abandoning their isolationism is at direct odds with a trade embargo anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mandevil</author><text>She&amp;#x27;s actually accused of fraud, for (allegedly) lying to US companies that what they were doing would not be in violation of any US embargo. The legal theory here is that when she made materially untrue statements that caused US organizations to commit a crime she committed the crime.&lt;p&gt;In broader terms, any financial interaction in dollars likely goes through a US financial institution of some kind, who will be legally obligated to carry out all US embargo rules. There are ways around this, but they are, at present weird hacks that you have to go out of your way to do.</text></comment>