Trump tweets that Commerce Department has been instructed to help China's ZTE, which had to stop operations after US companies were banned from selling to it
in China? This is new. http://www.nytimes.com/... http://twitter.com/... Max Kennerly / @maxkennerly : The Commerce Dept banned exports to ZTE because it repeatedly violated U.S. sanctions limiting exports of U.S. technology to Iran and North Korea. Of the 380 admitted violations, 96 were “evasion” violations meant to frustrate U.S. investigations. Make Obstruction Great Again! https://twitter.com/... Jonathan Landay / @jonathanlanday : (Reuters) - A Chinese telecommunications equipment company has sold Iran's largest telecom firm a powerful surveillance system capable of monitoring landline, mobile and internet communications, interviews and contract documents show. https://twitter.com/... Simon Robinson / @iron_emu : Five years on, this @stecklow story had a pretty big echo yesterday: ZTE agreed to pay $1.19 billion in penalties for selling tech to Iran https://twitter.com/... Frank Luntz / @frankluntz : “ZTE promised to discipline employees involved in the scheme, but the U.S. Commerce Department said last week that they were paid bonuses instead.” https://cnb.cx/2HOGbpZ Frank Luntz / @frankluntz : In 2012, Chinese phone company ZTE sold U.S. phone-monitoring technology to Iran. https://reut.rs/2H3p0Vl https://twitter.com/... Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw : Has the White House provided a readout of a call with President Xi where ZTE came up? How'd they reach this agreement? Hamza Shaban / @hshaban : This reversal is notable because it was Trump's Commerce Dept that banned US companies from doing business with ZTE after ZTE sold technology to North Korea and Iran and lied about punishing employees who facilitated the illegal shipments https://twitter.com/... Matthew Miller / @matthewamiller : Uh, US companies were banned from selling to ZTE because it violated sanctions with Iran, which this administration claims is such a threat that it just imposed new sanctions. http://twitter.com/... Stop Trump / @stoptrump2020 : #unbelievable This would mark a stark reversal of the harsh punishment the Commerce Department handed out to ZTE for its failure to properly dole out its own reprimand to employees involved in selling US origin equipment to #Iran. http://www.cnet.com/...