Comment by WhyNotHugo

> that their structure and ownership posed a threat to US interests.

This is pretty much as vague as it gets "they're doing _something_ wrong".

The exact behaviour that is prohibited needs to be codified into law. Then you can go after organisations what break such law.

In this case, they've just been found guilty of an unwritten crime.

> If anything the surprising thing is how lenient western governments tend to be towards foreign corporations

Corporations in general rather. I do agree that we should be stricter of foreign corporations, and on non-foreign ones equally so.