150: Chapter 150 Sanctions Begin

With the President's order, things became much simpler.

Moreover, it was targeting Dragon Country after all; although Eagle Country had many political parties, they basically all held a unified stance: they could not stand to see Dragon Country doing well.

Usually, if there were other matters within Eagle Country, the various parties would tear each other apart due to disagreements, which could be described as dogs biting dogs, with fur flying everywhere.

However, if you were to sanction Dragon Country, all the parties would raise both hands in agreement, because it aligned with the common interests of all their parties.

Therefore, with the President's instructions, the Minister of the Ministry of Commerce, James Smith, did not need to worry about so much.

Regardless of which party he belonged to, doing this served his party's interests, so he immediately began preparing to sanction Huayao Communications.

Direct sanctions were ultimately lacking in martial virtue, and James Smith was very clear on this point.

After some deep thought, he adopted a measure to make their ongoing illegal actions appear less unreasonable and tyrannical.

The Minister of the Ministry of Commerce, James Smith, came up with a brilliant and excellent way to strike at Huayao.

They issued a public announcement, claiming that as a Dragon Country enterprise, Huayao Communications did not comply with the various local laws and regulations of Eagle Country, seriously endangering Eagle Country's national security and information security.

Therefore, the Ministry of Commerce of Eagle Country was considering taking mandatory measures against Huayao Communications.

Currently, there were only two paths left for Huayao Communications: either accept an investigation by Eagle Country, cooperate with Eagle Country, and hand over all kinds of data from Huayao Communications to the Eagle Country government; or withdraw from the Eagle Country market, as Dragon Country manufacturing was not welcome here.

At the same time, Huayao Communications would also face sanctions from Eagle Country; worldwide, all Eagle Country enterprises were forbidden from cooperating with Huayao Communications, and Eagle Country's partners were also prohibited from cooperating with Huayao Communications.

It seemed like they had given Huayao Communications two paths, but each one was a dead end.

Handing over all of Huayao Communications' data to Eagle Country was definitely out of the question.

No matter what, Bai Jingqing was a citizen of Dragon Country; he would absolutely never accept such a thing, as this was clearly an act of treason.

Furthermore, Huayao Communications was growing stronger by the day, had cooperative ties across various industries in Dragon Country, and even collaborated with the government and the military.

Therefore, if he were to hand over the network communication data to Eagle Country, he would undoubtedly be a traitor.

He could absolutely never do such a thing.

But if he were to accept the sanctions from Eagle Country and withdraw from the Eagle Country market, he would be unwilling to do so.

Right now, he was truly caught between a rock and a hard place, stuck in a dilemma.

Bai Jingqing sighed; the situation he had anticipated had finally arrived.

In the life before he transmigrated, Eagle Country had abused the tactic of sanctions, targeting various enterprises, universities, and talents of Dragon Country; one could say they had played this card to perfection.

Now that Huayao Communications had reached this point, it had clearly caused panic among the upper echelons of Eagle Country.

They finally could not sit still any longer and started implementing sanctions against Huayao Communications; this was the first enterprise to be sanctioned by Eagle Country.

This was truly an eye-opener for people all over the world.

Previously, they had all thought that sanctions were things that could only be used against countries, including economic sanctions and political sanctions, implementing comprehensive blockades against a nation to leave it isolated and helpless, ultimately forcing it to submit.

But now, they really had not expected that Eagle Country would actually launch sanctions against a single enterprise; this was truly a farce.

This also made people turn their heads, all wanting to understand what kind of enterprise Huayao Communications was.

Many people, upon investigating, discovered that Huayao Communications produced many brands of mobile phones that they or those around them were using.

By this time, Huayao's global market share was already quite significant; basically, in every country, one could see people using Huayao Phone.

With such a massive expansion of influence, it was no wonder that Eagle Country was anxious.

And even more fatally, Huayao was not just a standalone mobile phone manufacturer; it also had its own promotional tool: Douyin.

As for something like Douyin, they only needed to experience it briefly to get a bit hooked.

If time went on and scrolling through short videos became a habit, the impact would be terrifying.

If Douyin really spread across Eagle Country, and they mixed a bit of information into the videos pushed on Douyin, it would influence countless people.

Especially since Eagle Country used elections to choose the President, if Douyin were meddling in it, it would be hard to say who would ultimately become the President.

It might even be that if Bai Jingqing wanted to run for President of Eagle Country, he might even succeed.

No wonder Eagle Country was so impatient to ban Huayao Communications; once Douyin was fully established, it would be too late, and it would be impossible to sanction them.

Douyin could do too many things; it could even call on people to revolt!

At this time, other major capitalist powers were actually thinking about whether they should follow Eagle Country and ban Huayao.

After all, in other countries around the world, Huayao's market share was already quite significant, and Douyin also had a considerable market share.

If they let it continue to develop like this, it would certainly lead to very serious consequences.

However, none of them did so; in the end, they all chose to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, deciding to wait and see for a while.

Now that Eagle Country was the first to make a move, choosing to sanction a single enterprise, they wanted to see what direction things would develop in.

Moreover, Dragon Country's national strength was growing stronger by the day, and its technological development was changing with each passing day, already showing signs of being a technological powerhouse.

Banning Douyin and banning Huayao at this time meant going against Dragon Country.

It did not sound good, and it might even make them enemies with Dragon Country.

Facing an enemy that was growing and strengthening day by day, everyone would likely lose sleep.

So they planned to wait and see how Eagle Country would handle this matter. Right now, Eagle Country was truly being roasted over a fire, with the whole world watching it make a fool of itself, and the government's actions made many of Eagle Country's citizens feel ashamed and embarrassed.

However, those government officials in Eagle Country did not care; they insisted on claiming that it was Huayao Communications that first violated Eagle Country's national laws and regulations, and that it had caused a huge impact on Eagle Country's national security, which was why Eagle Country was sanctioning them.

In other words, Eagle Country was in the right; Eagle Country was not one to disregard democracy and freedom, and everything was done out of necessity.

That was what they said, but anyone with a discerning eye could see at a glance what was really going on.

But out of fear of Eagle Country's might, no one dared to expose it.