一个关键事实是,美国金融体系在世界经济中处于中心地位,这一地位反过来取决于总部位于美国的银行的重要性以及美元作为全球最主要储备货币的角色。美国介入国际足联案件,因为涉嫌的腐败交易是通过在美国运营的银行进行的。
On other occasions, it is not just the direct use of the US financial system that drags outsidersinto America’s net. Some US sanctions regimes force foreigners to obey American law, evenoutside the US, or to be subjected to sanctions themselves. Swift, for example, is based inBelgium. But had Swift’s directors refused to obey US law imposing sanctions on Iran, theyrisked being refused entry to America. So they chose to co-operate.
在其他场合,并非只有对美国金融体系的直接利用可以使外国人落入美国的大网。美国的有些制裁机制迫使外国人遵守美国法律(甚至在美国以外的地区),否则他们自身就会遭受制裁。例如,Swift的总部设在比利时,但如果该机构负责人拒绝遵守美国制裁伊朗的法律,他们就得冒着被美国拒绝入境的风险。所以,他们选择合作。
This is the kind of power that no other country can yet wield. China, for instance, is a hugemarket and is not averse to using its market-power to threaten countries that do thingsBeijing dislikes, such as meet the Dalai Lama or recognise Taiwan. The renminbi is not a globalcurrency however and access to the Chinese financial system is not yet critical to a globalbusiness. Nor does a threat to bar an individual from travelling to China have the chilling effectof a potential travel ban to the US. (As for the Russian travel bans, issued last week on 89 EUcitizens, few would regard these as an unbearable imposition.)
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