There is no such nonsense in civil law that the entire world except the US and the UK use.
Civil law is precise. What needs to be done and what are the consequences are explicitly written. Courts just enforce the law. They cannot 'interpret' the law, stretch or shrink it, they definitely cannot CHOOSE to do anything. The law is the law. If you demonstrate that you fulfilled the criteria for a regulation, that's it - nobody can do anything by 'interpreting' things just like how it flies in common law.
> would NEVER DARE challenge Chinese companies
Chinese companies stick to regulations to the letter. They know what civil law is since China also has civil law. They know that civil law cannot be avoided or worked around how common law can. Like how corporations constantly do in the US.
What's pathetic is a lot of Angloamericans living under a legal system that is remnant of the medieval times, descending from the hodgepodge of 'decrees, traditions and precedents' that people used back at that time, where the judge literally plays the role of the feudal sovereign and 'interprets' things however he wants, leading to entire legal system ending up a quagmire of interpretations, precedents, lawyerly lying and sly loopholes. And when an US corporation cannot do the same thing anywhere else in the world, people like you come up ranting about those who actually do law right.
No wonder the legal system is a mess in the US. A quagmire that requires deep pockets to get any justice out of it. Making everything expensive. Leading to your best brains to be pushed into law sector, draining them from critical fields like STEM.