[adventured]

The only reason the US is concerned with saving ZTE from going under in this instance, is as a favor-trade with China (they sign off on Qualcomm-NXP, the US gets to conclude eating an important EU company). It acts as an overall goodwill exchange in the midst of the trade deal positioning.

[tropo]

Hey, fair is fair. Your "important EU company" ate up Freescale and VLSI Technology, both of which were important US companies. We're just taking our stuff back.