• tal@lemmy.today
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    8 months ago

    US Law supersedes any other obligations.

    Only from in the eyes of the US legal system. The Chinese legal system won’t see it that way.

    They can place conflicting demands on a company; they don’t have to be compatible.

    They’d be obligated to leave the market. They’re US companies.

    They’d be placed under conflicting demands. They might well choose to exit, but it isn’t that one set of constraints is superior to another. Look at the current scenario, which is the mirror image of that – Bytedance is being required to divest. They could divest, or could exit the US market.