[duhast]

> And if we don't want to use American sanctions laws as a baseline, the alleged violations all happened while U.N. sanctions were in effect.

UN sanctions cover mostly military and nuclear equipment - I don't believe that either ZTE or Huawei participated in arms sales to Iran. US accuses both of integrating and reselling modem chipsets made by companies like Broadcom.

This looks to me like trade war where law is used instrumentally and public opinion is shaped to make it look differently to what it actually is.