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by frandroid 2965 days ago
Considering how much of their sales were in the U.S., and knowing the kind of threats the U.S. government had already made to Huawei, it was pretty dumb of them to ignore U.S. government warnings and investigations over what must have been piddly sales by volume (though probably with quite a profit margin, since no one else was selling to Iran). Now it's totally blown up in their face.
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If its' a "war between China and the US" then dissolving and reforming a company doesn't seem like that big of a deal.
Rightly so. At this point seems China has all the condition but a necessary kick in the butt.
The Chinese government would likely gladly subsidize the company just to screw the US.
This would mean inconsistently treating Iran and North Korea in different ways.