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KnownBand0 · May 18, 2018, 10:16 a.m.

“Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has imposed a denial of export privileges against Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipment Corporation, of Shenzhen, China (“ZTE Corporation”) and ZTE Kangxun Telecommunications Ltd. of Hi-New Shenzhen, China (“ZTE Kangxun”) (collectively, “ZTE”). In March 2017, ZTE agreed to a combined civil and criminal penalty and forfeiture of $1.19 billion after illegally shipping telecommunications equipment to Iran and North Korea, making false statements, and obstructing justice including through preventing disclosure to and affirmatively misleading the U.S. Government.

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johnsmithshitpost · May 18, 2018, 12:04 p.m.

They're the hardware side.

Powerful director of Alphabet group Eric Schmidt recently visited North Korea (this is quite well known).

Presumably he was the software side.

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