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by brisance 2966 days ago
Why is the NY Times spinning this as a "tech Cold War"? ZTE got caught violating US sanctions against North Korean and Iran, and repeatedly lied to US officials about it.

https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2018/04/secreta...

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The NYT has easily the best journalists and in my opinion the best written articles but post 2016, the constant Anti-American stance is entwined in every article regardless of the subject. For subjects I have in depth knowledge of, it's honestly pathetic how they subtlety spin everything into anti-America by deliberately omitting key pieces of info.

Bloomberg for whatever reason has started having more and more misleading headlines and articles, ironically right as they head to a subscription model. The WSJ I still subscribe too, mainly because it's more business and less politics related though the comment section unfortunately resembles only a slightly more dignified version of a Breitbart commenter.

Because these sanctions campaigns are themselves remnants of the original cold war?
Sensationalism sells.