extraterritorial

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The case feeds into growing fears of extraterritorial reach on China’s part, especially with concerns that Hong Kong’s national security law, passed last year, could apply to people of any nationality even outside Hong Kong.

From Seattle Times

“I don’t think that a place in the state of Israel should be extraterritorial, that the state doesn’t have any control over it, doesn’t manage it, isn’t responsible for it,” he said.

From Seattle Times

“It has real teeth, and we expect real enforcement. We expect real deterrence, and we have the capacity to do so. We’ve seen exactly this happen with all sorts of extraterritorial criminal law.”

From Washington Post

The extraterritorial enterprise began on a Friday afternoon when a C-141 Starlifter cargo plane bearing prisoners from Afghanistan touched down at the remote outpost.

From New York Times

The State Department, however, did impose what it called “the Khashoggi ban”: restrictions against anyone found to be “acting on behalf of a foreign government” and involved in “serious, extraterritorial counter-dissident activities.”

From Washington Post