The Early Three Kingdoms Period
In 1982, the US government arrested Hitachi and Mitsubishi personnel on the charge of industrial espionage to suppress Japanese high-tech companies. In 2013, the US Department of Justice detained 4 senior executives of the French firm Alstom, forcing the corporation to sell core firms such as power and grid to Common Electric at low rates. Out of geopolitical and power-associated calculus, the US has imposed sanctions on the Nord Stream two natural gas pipeline project considering the fact that December…
