China has the luxury of being a totalitarian state. Xi does not need to worry about upcoming elections. Unfortunately in Europe any moves that requires great sacrifice might be political suicide.

Yes but they need to obey Turkish law if they want to offer their services there. Like how US websites have to show a “cookies” disclaimer within the EU due to EU privacy laws.

Eh as much as I would like it to be true, I would take the word of captured enemy combatants with a grain of salt.

Well as a company bluesky, would need to abide by the laws of where it is offering it’s services.

They can’t just ignore the request of the country’s government. They could either challenge it in court or stop offering their services altogether.

Ironically this scandal was caused by fools