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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.
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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".
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.
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.