[Trumpisourlastchance]

DOJ seeks to extradite & prosecute the Chinese CFO based on an illegal extraterritorial application of US law to nationals abroad.

This means virtually every American traveling abroad could be scooped up and sent to China or Russia for violating their laws.

We are in deep poop.

[MeganC]

“This means virtually every American traveling abroad could be scooped up and sent to China or Russia for violating their laws.”

It also means that if you go abroad you can be arrested and prosecuted in Germany, for instance, for posting ‘hate speech’ on FR that is critical of Islam even though that is protected speech in the USA where you wrote it and posted it.

[bert]

Well, the message is actually to European executives of companies violating sanctions on Iran.

China knows that

[Scott from the Left Coast]

At least if I got scooped up and sent to Russia or China, I’d be in a less corrupt country with a stronger adherence to the rule of law.

[stinkerpot65]

That’s what I was thinking. How can they apply American law to a foreign national who is not even in the country? Reminds me of this case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NatWest_Three

[stinkerpot65]

That’s what I was thinking. How can they apply American law to a foreign national who is not even in the country? Reminds me of this case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NatWest_Three