Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days
by fastball on Friday August 07, 2020 @11:30AM
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No, it needs to be enforced by either a higher power (which doesn't currently exist for the world) or by not allowing countries to do this. This can happen either through gunboat diplomacy or by economic actions like the ones this entire thread is about.
As to your addendum, I am unaware of an economic model that intrinsically solves such problems of peaceful coordination between nation states.
It sounds like a failed system, then - can we move over to some other economic model, that does not require coercion or a constant threat of war to function?
Unilateral coercion is not the basis for a free society, or free relationships between societies. It is utterly incompatible with sovereignty and democracy, and the ability of countries to decide their own internal policies.