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US Bans American Companies From Selling To Chinese Electronics Maker ZTE (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: The U.S. Department of Commerce is banning American companies from selling components to leading Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp for seven years for violating the terms of a sanctions violation case, U.S. officials said on Monday. The Chinese company, which sells smartphones in the United States, pleaded guilty last year in federal court in Texas for conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions by illegally shipping U.S. goods and technology to Iran. It paid $890 million in fines and penalties, with an additional penalty of $300 million that could be imposed. As part of the agreement, Shenzhen-based ZTE Corp promised to dismiss four senior employees and discipline 35 others by either reducing their bonuses or reprimanding them, senior Commerce Department officials told Reuters. Update: The UK's cyber security watchdog has warned the UK telecoms sector not to use network equipment or services from Chinese supplier ZTE as it would have a "long term negative effect on the security of the UK."
The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.
Begun, the Trade Wars have.
Unlike China, there are real and freeish elections in Iran. There human rights are not nearly as bad as many of our friends. Sure, they are overseen by a religious right that most Iranians would love to remove. But they are certainly no worse than many of our other friends. (Same goes for Cuba.)
What is worse, picking on Iran just supports their religious right. It is counter productive.
And remember (if you ever knew) that Iran lost some 2 MILLION dead in the not so ancient war with Iraq, during which Hussein used plenty of chemical weapons. And we actively supported Hussein.
It doesn't matter.
The Chinese now have a fledgling petro-Yuan. The USA should be ostensibly "nice" to China for a change. Things like sanctions only make a country as large and resourceful as China stronger in the long run. And with Chinese companies, it requires only the sleight of hand to rename a company and bypass such sanctions. The last thing that they will put up with is losing sales, and the second-to-last is changing their business practices.
This is a charade and send the signal to Chinese companies the U.S. is not a reliable supplier, they will start to look for Europe and others Asian countries for components or develop their own alternatives more faster than before, then the trade gap will become even larger and the morons in Washington will continue to complain about it.
I assume:
Biden, Cain, Booker, Mccaskell, Harris are likely candidates.
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A vote for Stein was a vote for Trump.
"The USA should be ostensibly "nice" to China for a change. "
You confuse me. Are you now one of the 2000% increased Russian trolls or are you a lone Chinese one?
"The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend."
That might be but helping an enemy's enemy is always good for you, it doesn't matter if he's a friend.
"While this is true, and in true Slashdot spirit, I haven't RTFA ..."
To top you, I haven't even read TFS. :-)
"so take this with a grain of salt, but I suspect that what is happening here is selective enforcement for political reasons."
Naw, it's just something in his demented mind (or the one with the 'stache) and people just make him happy, fuck the consequences.
The Chinese already likely have copies of the masks of every component used, and could easily just counterfeit the shit, re-brand it, and keep selling.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Disagree.
In the current system the two main parties adopt positions of third parties that siphon off votes and cost them elections. Voting your conscience is potentially more effective in the long run for getting your ideas adopted and can be a much more effective vote than just voting a compromise candidate every election.
--- Mercutio was right.
The enemy of your enemy is your enemies enemy. Nothing more nothing less. You may have to spend just as much resources fighting that new enemy as your original enemy. There are plenty of examples of this in conflicts around the world. Say a country is ruled by a dictator and rebel group A are democratically inclined. Rebel group B are hardcore communists. Both rebel groups will fight each other just as much as the gov troops.It happens a LOT in civil wars and major conflicts that fall along religious lines. Think yuoglsavia in the early 90s with Croats vs Serbs vs Albanians all duking it out with each other. Each hating each other almost equally. Same during WW2 in China. You had commie vs national chinese AND the japanese.
Look up the term 'three way war' for more examples.
Yes, and it can get a lot more complicated than 3 :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And that's doesn't include government agencies, like the CIA, and private contractors (mercenaries).
I really hope they don't run creepy Joe. I could accept just about anyone before Joe Biden.
I'm a delawarian, and I don't want him either.
He's not where I want the party to go.
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You make electronics purchases based on future Islamic democracy? Fuck, you better not answer any marketing surveys and fuck things up for the rest of us. That's near the top of stupidest reasons to buy a device. "Yes, I support corrupt companies that deal with banned countries contrary to their agreements." SMH.