Overview
Bloomberg quoted Stewart Baker in a May 14 article titled “Trump Defends ZTE Concession After Sparking Bipartisan Rebuke.” The article discusses how, in a tweet, President Trump defended a move to help Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp. after his concession stoked bipartisan criticism that it could jeopardize national security.
Baker, a former assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security, says: “I don’t think this tweet tells us that the United States is going to relax its suspicion of ZTE products sold in the United States. This was about whether to cut ZTE off entirely from US products that it needs as components for the systems it sells around the world. The United States can and probably will work to keep ZTE out of the United States; the tweet is about whether the United States is going to put ZTE out of business entirely.”
The full article can be read at Bloomberg.