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Any thoughts on why this news overall isn't getting more attention? And what about the threat of taking away citizenships, is that even legal?

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There is no threat of taking away citizenship.

Citizens will be banned from certain jobs with severe penalties for breaches.

Therefore execs with dualcitizenship might choose to give up US citizenship and keep their jobs instead. But no-one will take their US citizenship away.

The article is highly misleading and misrepresents the situation.

Do you have a source for this?

The text of the actual new rules and articles that covered it in reputable publications.

For instance [1]:

"For many senior executives at Chinese companies, the rule will likely force them to decide between their jobs and their U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status,"

This is the correct, accurate take on the issue, which is being distorted in the article you posted.

No-one will be stripped from their US citizenship.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-executives-in-limbo-at...

Is there a source on the loss of citizenship? Historically the US made it very hard to give up citizenship, I would be surprised if they for once made an easy way to relinquish it.

This seems to apply to Chinese-Americans specifically. Here are a couple of other sources:

https://fortune.com/2022/10/13/chinese-americans-china-chip-...

https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-export-curbs-place-many-233739...

No, the Fortune article correctly reports that people may be forced to choose. But there is no provision to strip people of citizenship in the new rules as the article you submitted implies.

Actually, the Yahoo story says: "The order applies to all U.S. citizens, green-card holders and foreign nationals who live in the U.S."

The Fortune headline seems misleading, but the article is behind a paywall so I couldn't read, so I'm not 100% sure.

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