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Question(s), as I'm genuinely curious about this and I'm not quite sure how to research it in-depth.. hoping some of our more active armchair politicians might have better information.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/13/technology/business/trump-lattice-china
Near as I can tell, this is an instance of the US President issuing an EO to halt the acquisition of an American company by a Chinese one, for 'national security concerns'.
Is this something that's ever happened before?
Is it legal/kosher for Government, specifically the executive branch, to be getting involved in the affairs of private organizations?
If there's a true national security concern, shouldn't it get investigated by the FBI/DHS (or whomever's jurisdiction this falls under) rather than have an EO issued by the president?
Does this set a bad precedent for a President to be EO-ing away any business transactions he doesn't like?
Am I completely over-blowing this/is there something I'm not seeing likely happening on the back-end to make this a warranted one-off situation?
http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/13/technology/business/trump-lattice-china
Near as I can tell, this is an instance of the US President issuing an EO to halt the acquisition of an American company by a Chinese one, for 'national security concerns'.
Is this something that's ever happened before?
Is it legal/kosher for Government, specifically the executive branch, to be getting involved in the affairs of private organizations?
If there's a true national security concern, shouldn't it get investigated by the FBI/DHS (or whomever's jurisdiction this falls under) rather than have an EO issued by the president?
Does this set a bad precedent for a President to be EO-ing away any business transactions he doesn't like?
Am I completely over-blowing this/is there something I'm not seeing likely happening on the back-end to make this a warranted one-off situation?