manqiangrexue
Brigadier
No, there are two dimensions to it. The first dimension is legal. If discussing the legal dimension, then international trade cannot be conflated to domestic law. But morally (to answer the question of whether something constitutes bullying), there are many comparisons that can be drawn. You drew the legal comparision asking if I can discriminate against Jewish customers in my business in the US. The comparison is a failure because you mixed domestic law with international trade in a legal comparison. But my comparison of boycotting a business in protest to its owner is based on a moral standpoint and perfectly valid.
No, they do morally, not legally. Your movie example was awful and your Jewish discrimination example is awful. Your Bruce Lee example was so terrible it completely ignored the fact that he was defending against imperialism occurring in his own country to try to counter whether inclusion/exclusion counts as bullying. Your example was so far off it was in outer space.
That was always understood legally, NOT morally.
Some of this is correct and some not. America banning the sale of an item is legally and morally sound; you cannot force someone to sell you anything. But when America posts sanctions on a third country and interdicts their shipping, it is of course and overreach like it did to Iran and to other countries shipping thier arms.
Yes, no problem
Right, they don't apply, but the threat is that if the product is sold to China against American wishes, then they will receive no further shipments from the US thus collapsing their future business. Sometimes, it doesn't even come to that. Sometimes American diplomatic appeal is enough. That is within America's own rights and does not violate China's.
Not sure what this is a response to but it does seem you are here to cry about morals accusing America of bullying China just for witholding its trade and acting within its rights to coerce its partners into withholding trade from China. I'm saying that other than the US pirating shipments and starting color revolutions in countries that don't align with it, its trade and tech wars against China are fair game.
This does not register with me as a reply to anything I've said.
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