HANGHAI — President Trump wrote on Twitter on Sunday that he was working with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to prevent the collapse of the Chinese electronics giant ZTE, which shut down major operations after being sanctioned by the United States Department of Commerce last month.
“Too many jobs in China lost,” Mr. Trump wrote. “Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done!”
Trump telling the commerce dept. to save those chinese jobs!!!
Lol. What the hell?
I thought he wanted to bring jobs home to the US FROM china? I thought that was why many here and elsewhere voted for him.
In the This Day in Politics thread, it is noted that Us companies have been banned from dealing with this company for going against Iran sanctions, and that intelligence agencies have been warning that this company is likely spying on American consumers. I haven’t read up on it yet myself.
In my opinion, excellent move. He wants to inflict pain but not permanent damage. He also has the opportunity to earn goodwill by doing this and ease the negative image he must have in China by exerting these sanctions.
Yeah, they only broke sanctions against Iran and North Korea, lied about it to the US government, paid their executives extra to do both those things, and are likely using their phones to spy on Americans. Don’t want to go to hard on them…