Does 'legal' an 'illegal' apply here? Surely, the USA legal system only apply in the USA?

modeless 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

'Legal' and 'illegal' apply to Nvidia or other US companies facilitating these activities. Perfectly legal for Nvidia to supply GPUs to be rented by Chinese companies, or for Oracle to build datacenters for Chinese companies to rent, as long as they are installed outside of China.

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cowlevel 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You'd think so but the USA is also the country that's most advanced at getting its legal system to apply outside of it. E.g. they shut down the International Criminal Court.

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graemep 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

When did they shut it down?

There were cases being considered as recently as yesterday. https://www.icc-cpi.int/case-records

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cowlevel 17 hours ago | parent [-]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50479876

	▲	graemep 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		So not "shut down" but unsubstantiated reports that one country is in talks with the US about limiting its powers.

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LtWorf 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>USA is also the country that's most advanced at getting its legal system to apply outside of it

Yes it has nukes. However china also has nukes. That poses some legal limitation.

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cowlevel 20 hours ago | parent [-]

The USA didn't need nukes to get Venezuela.

	▲	m4rtink 14 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Did they really "get" Venezuela ? What actually prevents them to start ignoring what US wants in a while ?
	▲	LtWorf 17 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It needed them to avoid retaliation from the rest of the world.