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LinkedIn Shuts Service in Chinese Mainland – Another US Security Risk Removed! (10.8.2023)

Meanwhile, the Chinese Proletariat ‘Revolution’ must be protected. If US Tech Companies are not willing to abide by local laws – then they should leave. I would advise the same approach for all European countries – including the UK – and would suggest that our national governments STOP US Tech Companies from flouting our local laws and treating us as if we are US citizens (existing outside of the US) and applying all kinds of discriminatory and prejudicial limitations to our behaviour that are alien to our cultures and contrary to our laws! In reality, Biden’s destructive economic policies are destroying free market businesses and this has led to the InCareer Corporation (which owns ‘Linkedin’) shedding over 700 jobs worldwide and closing non-competitive enterprises. The reactionary US media is packaging this happening as being China’s fault and the product of draconian local regulations. The hypocrisy is palpable.

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US Anti-Intelectualism: Washington’s Rules-Based World Order a Myth! (9.5.2023)

In fact, the U.S. government has a tradition of putting its domestic law above international law and selectively applies international rules as it sees fit. For example, Washington has enacted such domestic laws as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act to target and sanction specific countries, entities or individuals.

The ambiguous rules contained in these acts and executive orders, such as the “minimum contacts” rule and the “effects doctrine,” are a willful expansion of the jurisdiction of America’s domestic laws.

And for more than six decades, despite dozens of UN General Assembly resolutions, the United States has pressed ahead with its comprehensive blockade against Cuba, the longest and cruelest systemic trade embargo and financial sanctions in modern history, based on its embargo policies and domestic laws such as the Torricelli Act and the Helms-Burton Act. The blockade has led to over 100 billion U.S. dollars of direct losses to Cuba’s economy.

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