[valas]

Perhaps you are right --- Amazon would not be punished in this way.

But likely you are right for different reasons than you think?

US government can put US executives in jail. I'm sure it would put them in jail. You have to remember what happened here: ZTE was caught, paid penalty and promised to be nice, then they reneged on their promise, lied about it, and got caught again.

Feds in fact just recently put VW executive in jail for even lesser offense. US government has no such jail-time leverage with Chinese companies, there is no extradition agreement, so the only leverage US has, it used.

[gowld]

I do wonder if Oliver Schmidt got that jail sentence in part because he and his company are non-American, leading to harsher treatment.