[vthallam]

T - 30 mins before this post gets buried. I don't understand despite the high upvote count, why do articles critical of China are not able to be in the first page for more than a couple hours.

Also, China is the new Saudi Arabia. With the economic power, they can get away with anything and actually, you can't do anything to stop that. Even Trump who was so critical wanted to help ZTE as soon as the Chinese asked for interference.

[yorwba]

1 hour later and this story is #6 on the front page. I get it, complaining about perceived censorship is fun, but this submission hasn't quite gone full flame war yet, so I think it will stay for a while.

[Lionsion]

I think this one will stay, but mainly because the content is an inoculation against the kind of trolling that usually leads to China threads getting buried.

I do have an irrational hope that the inoculation will last for more than a single thread though.

[rdlecler1]

Which would suggest that if you wanted to bury a thread you don’t downvote it but fake a flame war and then it’ll quietly go away... may need to figure out how to deal with this problem.

[BatFastard]

Well Trump appears to have changed his mind very soon after they invested 500 million in a project he was involved with.

[elefanten]

Your comment is strictly true despite the downvotes. But, it would help to note that this is simply an observation of potentially unrelated events. Smoke but not fire.

What's more disheartening is that the latest round of (still incomplete) information indicates that he's trading back the ZTE action in exchange for the CCP walking back their own agriculture sector trade actions that were initiated during the first volleys in the trade conflict a few months ago.

That would be a deeply stupid and un-strategic trade to make. But sadly, it seems to play into the President's domestic political needs.

Edit: feel compelled to add / stress the caveat that no outcomes of the trade talks are known in full