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US Hits China's ZTE with $1 Billion Penalty

posted by mrpg on Saturday June 09 2018, @08:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the wow dept.

"exec" writes:

US hits China's ZTE with $1 billion penalty in deal to end crippling sanctions, Commerce Secretary Ross says

[...] "We are literally embedding a compliance department of our choosing into the company to monitor it going forward. They will pay for those people, but the people will report to the new chairman," Ross said in a "Squawk Box" interview.

ZTE's latest brush with U.S. regulators came after the company's business dealings with Iran and North Korea violated U.S. trade agreements. ZTE paid $1.19 billion in fines for those violations, but the dispute didn't end there. The Commerce Department then alleged that ZTE misled regulators and failed to discipline the employees responsible for the sanction breach.

The settlement deal includes $400 million in escrow to cover any future violations as well as requiring ZTE to change its board of directors and executive team in 30 days.

[...] In response to the announced deal, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday in a statement, "When it comes to China, despite [Trump's] tough talk, this deal with ZTE proves the president just shoots blanks."

Also at ZTE will pay $1 billion fine to beat US export ban

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Sulla on Saturday June 09 2018, @10:33AM (1 child)

    by Sulla (5173) on Saturday June 09 2018, @10:33AM (#690735) Journal

    Evidently both parties want the same thing, control. We have had decades of each party foisting more and more power on the executive because they can trust their own guy with the extra power. Back around the Drone filibuster Democrats said the power to kill anyone overseas being in Obamas hands was fine because he wouldnt abuse it, Reps do the same thing on other issues. Finally we have someone outside the traditional party structure in the executive and the parties are realizing the risk of so much power in the hands of so few.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09 2018, @05:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09 2018, @05:51PM (#690853)

    The thing is, mass media has become unbalanced and unhinged. Some say it is because it is dying and latching out to outrage is the last grasp of a drowning industry, but over the last 10 years nobody can claim that media doesn't have a leftist bias.