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> Is Europe trying to destroy American companies

In the same way that the EU's food regulations are bad for companies that produce pink slime from beef paste.

We've seen time and time again, that if there are no regulations in place to advance consumer's interests, then corporations will take the most profitable path, which is often a user hostile one.

What ability would the US government have to stop it? The EU and EU countries have every right to make their own laws. Implement an "export ban" and deprive the EU of these services? I doubt the companies involved would consider that to be preferable.

You mean US companies bowed to China but are afraid by EU, which is their military ally and economic partner?

Is that what you are saying?

And what is the US going to do to prevent it? Go to war? Again?

They can turn the screws using trade deals, etc.

How would that work?

I don’t think the US and EU have any bilateral trade deals, do they?