Re: "...ZTE...cut off....from American manufacturers."
"Selling products through shady middleman to avoid export controls/bans/sanctions will get found out eventually."
Indeed, just remember where this all started in the first place - ZTE were the shady middleman supplying American kit to Iran and North Korea.
"On the foreign side, the local government gets some US aid to ensure prosecution and the offenders end up in a prison that is a few rungs down the ladder from hell on earth."
Not so much. The foreign side effectively are the local government (ZTE is publicly traded, but the biggest shareholders are state-run companies) and far from being sent to prison, the offenders are given bonuses.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
