Do we live in a banana republic?
In response they were told they could no longer purchase American technology. Then they chose to go out of business.
They chose to go out of business. No one required that they break the law, and if they hadn’t they would be fine. The alternative is that companies can break the law however much they want if they’re large enough.
I don't think we should be engaging in a trade war with China, but of all of the companies we should be offering concessions to, ZTE is not anywhere near the top of that list. Call the whole thing off, but don't single out ZTE as someone to alleviate the pains for.
Hostile behavior is hostile behavior, regardless of how many people they employee.
Financing article: http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2145808...
HuffPo correlation story: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-china-zte_us_5af9...
This is not to say that the two are necessarily connected so much as it's to say that not investigating the timing of the two is to exhibit a lack of due diligence.
They don't even have to be connected with any explicit quid pro quo between the parties. It could all be implicit from the Chinese government knowing full well who the owner of the Trump Organization is.
Trump had a recourse, he could have easily put his assets in a blind trust. Instead, he should suffer the consequences.
So strong that he can't negotiate deals beneficial enough for him that he can afford to hold up his end of them, and instead files for bankruptcy so that he doesn't have to pay for it. He's taken such good care of all of the hard working US citizens he's interacted with in his days as a business man.
Looks like good negotiation to me. South Korea’s foreign minister even credited him for his work on the deal (which is still ongoing).
Hate Trump all you want, but fact of the matter is he’s a damn good salesman, marketer and negotiator. It’s how he won the primaries and the presidency. And now it’s how he’s winning diplomacy.
You can have a problem with his tactics, but at this point the results are really starting to speak for themselves.
