Well, apparently even sovereign countries sign treaties with each other.

Doesn’t mean that the US government just needs to accept that.

For the most part, yes it does. And really, it's only fair that it does, even if I think laws like these in the UK are complete garbage.

But sure, countries can sign trade treaties that give each other mutually-beneficial things. Some of those things could be what is and isn't allowed to require companies to do in order to operate within the other country's borders.

But in absence of something like that... that's just life. I guess the US could act like a baby and slap tariffs on goods from the UK, but I'm not sure what the upside would be for the US here.

The upshot is for Trusk to take full personal control over all of the state apparatus after smashing everything to pieces.

As with the Ukraine situation, the real underlying question is "does more than one country in the world get to have soverignty?"

What does the US government have to do with it?

The US government allowing a US company to operate in the US market, while the company enables a foreign country to access all US citizen's data. That's where the government is supposed to step in.

No, that is not the intention. If that were the case US diplomats would have intervened before now. Or maybe they were engaged in writing up what they did last week.

It's how I understood the UK's request to Apple, "Give us a global backdoor". If not, what was the intention?

Come on now, does anyone really believe that this sort of thing isn't co-ordinated at Five Eyes level?

Funny. Since UK spies on us for US, and US spies on UK for UK.

So this is a charade while status is quo, I guess.

Yeah, that's the whole point of Five Eyes these days.