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Snap retaliation: The Chinese response
HOME > PAST ISSUE > SPECIAL REPORT [Premium content]March 2007
If a Chinese oil company found itself on trial in a US court for conspiracy to commit human rights abuses in a third country, Beijing would not take the news well.
As China's UN Security Council voting record suggests, it doesn't approve of activities that threaten the autonomy of a sovereign state. A US court exercising its extraterritorial powers would be perceived as just that.
"They are not receptive to the assertion of jurisdiction beyond national borders," ...
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