US claims Chinese supplier violated export rules by helping ZTE sell telco equipment to Iran

The US Bureau of Industry and Security has accused China's Far East Cable Co. of violating export controls by selling telecommunications equipment to Iran on behalf of supplier ZTE. ZTE, a telecommunications hardware company partially owned by the Chinese government, has gotten into trouble for hawking US-made routers, …

[VoiceOfTruth]

It's about time that China took the gloves off

If the USA sells anything to Taiwain, instant sanctions + fines of billions. The time has come.

[Gene Cash]

Russia next

Now if they can only stop the flow of US chips used in Russian weapons. There was a huge TI DSP chip in the remnants of a Russian missile strike, and a lot of the captured tanks/communication/launchers/etc have a good percentage of American high tech electronics.

[Lordrobot]

NANCY KERRIGAN KNEE BASHING...

The US certainly wastes a lot of time and effort on silly garbage like this.

[lglethal]

The Propaganda merchants are already up early in the comments section this morning...

[MiguelC]

Only two of them though, El Reg must still be low on the CCP's propaganda bureau priorities

[Anonymous Coward]

Devex dot com shows only one contract for Far East Cable:

Northern Power Transmission Expansion (Sector) Project in Viet Nam: Conductors and Earthwires

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

In other words, impervious to US sanctions. Unlikely that ZTE and CCP didn't know about it.