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China's ZTE signed preliminary agreement to lift U.S. ban

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...e-firm-back-in-business-sources-idUSKCN1J12RP

U.S. President Donald Trump planned to meet with his trade advisers on Tuesday to discuss China’s offer to import an extra $70 billion of American goods over a year as a way to defuse a potential trade war between the world’s two largest economies.


Trump tweeted last month that he told Commerce officials to find a way for ZTE to resume operations, later suggesting penalties of a $1.3 billion fine and changes to its board and top management.
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Trump: making China great again. :mrgreen:
 
PoS said:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...e-firm-back-in-business-sources-idUSKCN1J12RP



Trump: making China great again. :mrgreen:
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So what? If we export those phones, great. If they are sold in the USA, then is a product made in the USA and that's great. Not every Chinese firm is a den of spies, but if they are having them on our soil is the place we want them so as to study their encryption, and monitor the contacts of those coming and going.

Our problem with China is not simply military. We need to balance the export/import books. China is careful to separate the two, and we are willing to do that - to a point.

Like a pine 2x4, it is never as simple as it seems.

What is ZTE, and why does the US think it's a national security threat?
 
chuckiechan said:
So what? If we export those phones, great. If they are sold in the USA, then is a product made in the USA and that's great. Not every Chinese firm is a den of spies, but if they are having them on our soil is the place we want them so as to study their encryption, and monitor the contacts of those coming and going.
Our problem with China is not simply military. We need to balance the export/import books. China is careful to separate the two, and we are willing to do that - to a point.
Like a pine 2x4, it is never as simple as it seems.
What is ZTE, and why does the US think it's a national security threat?
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What the hell? If their phones are spying on us, which according to our intelligence agencies they are, we want them IN the US? There is literally no depth a Trump supporter won't stoop to justify his madness.
 
RabidAlpaca said:
What the hell? If their phones are spying on us, which according to our intelligence agencies they are, we want them IN the US? There is literally no depth a Trump supporter won't stoop to justify his madness.
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"keep your friends close and your enemies closer".

Read this. It's short.

What is ZTE, and why does the US think it's a national security threat?

And getting back to espionage, we have a much better chance of keeping on top of their sources and method in these phones by having them here. There are no frequencies that we cannot locate to my knowledge. We also will have American employees, and a greatly enhanced ability to monitor who is in and out, who is talking to who, and who's who in the Chinese system and having closer proximity to encryption devices.

There is no reason to panic.

BTW, the Android phones runs on the Google operating system, so it's going to pretty hard to run a secret eavesdropping and transmitting program inside of it.

If Trump went along with shutting down ZTE and banning the use of these phones in the USA - what would your argument be then?
 
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