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Trump Strikes Deal With China's ZTE on Sanctions (usatoday.com)
The Trump administration struck a deal Thursday with a Chinese telecom that will allow it to do business with U.S. companies even though it violated sanctions. From a report: China's ZTE will pay a $1 billion penalty and will embed a U.S. appointed compliance team, terms that are similar to those President Trump discussed last month when he revealed that Chinese leaders had asked him to look into the matter. "At about 6 a.m. this morning, we executed a definitive agreement with ZTE," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told CNBC in an interview Thursday. "And that brings to a conclusion this phase of the development with them." Trump asked the Commerce Department to investigate the restrictions on ZTE in April following a request from Chinese President Xi Jinping. Commerce imposed a seven-year ban after the company sold American-made products to Iran, a violation of U.S. sanctions.
So ZTE were blocked from US for national security reasons. Trump has his meeting and starts singing the praising of ZTE:
"President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast. Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 13, 2018"
Right.... worried about jobs in China..... sure you are.
If you look at the payments Cohen received, he received money from Oligarchs, AtnT, Ukraine, Israel, Turkey, US Coal lobby, etc., and he paid out bills for Trump, Hannity, Elliott Broidy (RNC finance chair, so his money stream maybe RNC related) that they're not supposed to have.
Money they're not supposed to have, paying bills they're not supposed to have. All done through Cohen.
Trump looks after Trump, there will be a money stream associated with this. Money for Trump. It won't be through Cohen because he's broken now. It won't be Manasfort either, same reason. But it will be there, because that's Trump.
Spin THIS
Trump's administration is openly pay-to-play, which begs the question, what does Trump get out of this transaction?
China gave Trump a favorable business deal in the tune of a few hundred million dollars just before he wrote his tweet about "so many jobs lost in China, we must do something".
This is how a master negotiator gets his things done. All you whiny libtards and SJW's need to sit down and shut your mouth and let the adult room people get on with running things.
From your own link. "Coincidence? Well, probably".
Look back up at my post, now look back down, you're on the Internet. Now look back up. I'm a signature.
China provided a $500M loan to an Indonesian development project of which the trump organization has a licensing deal with and will profit from directly:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/05/is-china-straight-up-bribing-donald-trump-zte
The next day trump tweets we need to save Chinese jobs. Whats it going to take for all you die hard trumpers to realize you're the ones hes fucking over worse than anyone!? The second you question you're undying devotion to him he'll sell you out like "poor" Jeff Sessions.
ZTE has to embed NSA spyware into their US-market devices... or maybe all of their devices.
Don't be daft. Trump is in this for personal gain not to prop up the NSA: https://www.huffingtonpost.co....
He's not in the least bit incompetent. He is doing the thing he knows how to do best: Enrich himself through corruption. ZTE had nothing to do about politics. https://www.huffingtonpost.co....
5 days. That's all it took. 5 days from May 9th where Trump helped kill ZTE, to getting a major investment from the Chinese, to Trump helping bail ZTE out tweeting about his concern for Chinese jobs.
Economic sanctions are just the systematic murder of poor and middle-class--including their children--while pretending to keep your hands clean. They're not fundamentally-distinct from charging into villages and shooting 10-year-olds with flamethrowers.
The whole "national security" thing was a bunch of crap. They suggested ZTE could possibly put some kind of malicious espionage software on their phones--not that they, Huawei, or Xiaomi have done any such thing, but they could. Meanwhile CISCO routers are made in China and make up major government infrastructure....
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ZTE illegally sold US-made goods in Iran and North Korea, making hundreds of millions from Iran alone. ZTE then promised to punish 7 people caught directly violating these US laws, instead it gave them bonuses.
The espionage claims resulted in US government employees being prevented from using their phones, and is completely separate from these actions.
> ZTE illegally sold US-made goods in Iran
The Obama administration conspired to do the very same and yet half the people freaking out on this article don't seem to give a rat's ass about that.