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> no one would actually have any legal standing to sue, would they?

Countries would get all uppity about doing business in their jurisdiction if that were the case.

Google didn’t have a real choice here. DoJ is already threatening to break them up, and an olive branch to Trump is in the shareholder interest

I figure since it's a country threatening a company, any threats would be by definition legal, since the country can just change the laws to match the threat

Wait, that's not at all true. A country could change the laws, but it has to actually do that. Otherwise a country would automatically win every single lawsuit it brought forward, which is not the case.

Part of the very reason we even have laws is to limit the power of what the government can do, and protect private entities from government overreach.

That's only happens in a flawed government or democracy, like USA