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If an EU company refuses to play ball with the US, the US can simply compel the company through sanctions, as it is trying to do with ICC judges.

Travel bans, visa/mastercard, debanking, the whole nine yards.

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Visa/Mastercard are almost obsolete in most EU countries. If they disappeared there is multitude of better options than ancient cards.

What, like electronic payments using phones running American operating systems? With the bonus that you have two new gatekeepers that can lock your citizens out (Apple and Google).

Harmony OS looks great. I cant wait for the EU version. We will again have a hilarious discussion about US apps. Peeping tom and his lawless army of handsy friskers.

So you'd switch USA for China, and still have a foreign dependency embedded into the very fabric of your society. Do you not see a problem with this?

Oh, i mean a EU Phone OS. Eventually it has to happen. It will of course be entirely ceremonial and run on chinese made hardware with US apps.

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