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Re:Global minimum corporate tax: 130 nations to support U.S.... by 8note on Thursday July 01, 2021 @08:52PM (#27706760)
Countries are obligated to do business with the us.

Its called gunboat diplomacy

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Re:Global minimum corporate tax: 130 nations to support U.S.... by clusterfish on Thursday July 01, 2021 @10:12PM (#27707201)
When was the last time US used gunboat diplomacy to pressure a country into a multilateral agreement it didn't want to be part of?

Dollar & "cheap credit" diplomacy is more of a thing nowadays, and other powerful countries are doing it too (notably China)

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