• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If China had a law against shipping oil to the US, and a Chinese ship was going to ship oil to the US, would it be wrong for China to prosecute the ship owners and seize the oil?

    • dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      The US is not prosecuting the US owners of the ship.

      If it was only technically a “Chinese ship” in that a Chinese equity firm temporarily owned the ship and they used that as an excuse to seize the cargo and prosecute the foreign operator, that would also be wrong.