US can probably use their soft power to influence them not to do that. Also would imagine the US gov could also set up some more censorship resistant access methods.
At this point US has close to zero (if not negative) "soft" power.
Which soft power are you talking about?
Well, maybe USAID could have helped here. Or a robust State Dept.
At this point US has close to zero (if not negative) "soft" power.