solarz
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There's a saying in China: when a wolf wants to eat a lamb, he can find any excuse.
There's no point to fretting over the validity of those reasons, just don't be a lamb in the first place.
Trade War with China
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There's a saying in China: when a wolf wants to eat a lamb, he can find any excuse.
There's no point to fretting over the validity of those reasons, just don't be a lamb in the first place.
plawolf
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Um, no let’s be very clear here, ZTE has only violated domestic US sanctions. There was no UN sanction or international law broken.
The US domestic laws would have as much international standing as a new Chinese law criminalising business dealings with Taiwan for example.
China could pass a law tomorrow to sanction any western firm that does any business with Taiwan, SK, Japan or any other country that catches its ire, would that make it ‘illicit’ for western companies to continue doing business with those countries?
What America is doing with ZTE, and threatening to do more broadly with its impending threatened withdraw from the Iran deal, is leverage its market position and power to force other countries to follow its own domestic dictats.
Equation
Lieutenant General
That's because desperation reins and there is no other viable strategy left to sustain the current US status quo. Like I said before, the time are changing and so is the world geo politics.
PRC (not CPC) did not overlook the relevant sanctions mandated by the UN. PRC ignored US (individually) imposed sanction which PRC bares NO legal obligation. ZTE as a commercial entity buying American products does have an obligation to abide the demand of US government. The two (PRC and ZTE) cases are totally different matters.
broadsword
Brigadier
Who knows? Do you? Do you know that there are thousands of financial crimes happening every year?
Lethe
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Population. Even if all the developing nations of this world are stunningly successful in furthering their development while maintaining social cohesion and so go on to achieve similar wealth and power as first world nations, the United States will still remain amongst the most powerful of nations by virtue of being larger than all but three of them. In the absence of civil war and national collapse, or an economic-military revolution from abroad akin to that which enabled the age of European imperialism, or 'hand of god' events such as plague, eruption of Yellowstone, nuclear annihilation, etc. the United States will remain a great power for the foreseeable future.
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Killing ZTE is like giving a thief a death sentence for stealing a loaf of bread.
SinoSoldier
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That's usually how precedents are set to deter future cases of illicit conduct. Huawei & other Chinese tech companies are next if they don't abide by US sanctions or if Washington wishes to pull another trump card in its trade spat with Beijing.
You have a valid point, but I would not have used that analogy.
SinoSoldier
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Nah, not really desperation. This is just another well-played move in the grand scheme of the Chinese-US trade war, dressed like a punitive response to a sole company's violation of sanction rules.
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