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China's ZTE Removed From US Trade Blacklist (thestreet.com)
From a report: The U.S. Commerce Department will remove Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp from a trade blacklist after the company admitted to violating sanctions on Iran, the Commerce Department said in a notice made public on Tuesday.
"No problem." - US Commerce Department
That'll show 'em!
Donald Trump is going to be PISSED!
Had a phone from them a few years back. On delivery, GPS did not work, a hardware issue. About 10 months later MIC jack got foo bar. Just not as good quality items, as you would want.
My government still blacklists them for infrastructure as they can't be trusted not to have backdoors.
This is exactly how the Donald sees the US gov't working. We saw the same in his "invoice" to Angela Merkel. "Nice company/country you've got there, be a shame if something happened to it."
There's no public details of what, exactly, ZTE did to get the blacklisting lifted, but I'm willing to bet quite a lot of money was involved. Anyone like to bet on where all that money ended up?
Trump is turning the US gov't into a global protection racket. Anyone like to guess how much he's going to demand from The World to reinstate Obama's greenhouse gas controls?
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It sounds to me like ZTE did something bad, and now the USCD is removing them from a blacklist. Is this some sort of wheels-within-wheels reverse-psychology punishment, or is it a reward for fessing up?
As a side note, that was an impressively thin "article". I was all ready to rail on the summary for being light on details, but I don't feel appreciably more informed after having read the original piece.
it's like a plea bargain.
government doesn't have to prove anything and the culprit doesn't need to do anything but the government gets to say that they did and gets to ask some money too.
or backdoors. it's zte after all.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
arent they like one of the top 10 manufacturers in the world? its not like they just crawled out of a freaking sewer. Traditional brands can go suck a big one, these things work and are cheap
so someone had an issue with one, cool, they are selling these things in places that have a mandatory guarantee of 2 years, which indirectly MEANS most of these units actually DO LAST more than that on average otherwise distributors would not be putting these things on circulation if it were causing them too much trouble
i get that this is not apple, or cisco, or the freaking NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS, but they are even making home routers and stuff like that, and it works perfectly fine and like in any product, sometimes better than more well known brands, ive had stuff from them since forever, my last home router was from them and it bukaked the shit out of the motorola i had before, it had better wifi signal than most other brands, their stuff works like anything else. Yeah, the chinese probably know exactly what kind of porn i like because backdoors bla bla, but so do google. I dont give a flying fuck about what the chinese know about me, they dont own my country, that would be somebody else entirely
also, stop acting like theres something thats not made in china, almost all phones are made there, they are all made in china
You can keep disney and star wars, ill take this phones
Was ZTE one of the companies leaked that was installing backdoors and malware in their routers? I ask because if they were no one should buy them anyway. If they weren't then maybe they are now.
For all the urban legends that had been going around about Trump being in the back pocket of Russia, the US has been a surprisingly mutinous puppet, if that's what it is. First of all, there was Nikki Haley denouncing Russia in the UN over Crimea, of all things. Then just about every political appointee of Trump - be it Mattis, McMaster, Coates, Pompeo - has been a Putin critic, and last 2 days, even Spicey has been denouncing the Kremlin for the crackdown on anti-Medvedyev demonstrators. Of the people who were thought to be Russia's voices in the cabinet, Flynn is gone, while Tillerson has not touched any Russia related issues in the State Department so far: he's dealt with Mexico, Japan, Korea and China.
Now the Russian media is reporting that their people have bought Trump properties, but that hardly makes Trump their stooge. As it is, the Trump organization has assets in a variety of countries, but not Russia, and they're not doing any new transactions outside the US. So they can try to sow doubts in the minds of people about Trump's Russia ties, but the whole point of the media talking points was that Trump would be a stooge of Russia, and the latter is upset that he's not doing that according to plan.