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Re:Chinese activist Ai Weiwei says Credit Suisse closing fou... by est on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @06:34AM (#28455274)
> western governments will do very little to prevent this kind of extra-territorial control

Yeah remember Meng?

A Chinese businesswoman showed some PPT to a HK based bank, then got arrested by RCMP for "bank fraud", at a time when Canada had no sanctions against Iran.

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Re:Chinese activist Ai Weiwei says Credit Suisse closing fou... by Paradigma11 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @06:43AM (#28455324)
Meng did obviously and intentionally lie to US banks and got them to commit illegal acts without their knowledge. There is a good argument to be made that others also did this and this is selective enforcement but that is another matter.
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Re:Chinese activist Ai Weiwei says Credit Suisse closing fou... by est on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:43AM (#28466670)
> US banks

last time I chcked, HSBC is not a US bank. Which US ban are you referring to?

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