Both ZTE and Lenovo are shitty companies that deserve to go broke.
Just look at Huawei, there is nothing that the US can do about them, because they don't rely on the US technology and market, and they have developed their own core technologies since long time ago. This is some long sight strategic planning that shitty traitorous companies like ZTE and Lenovo would never learn.
I can tell you based on first hand experience that ZTE is a shitty company with shitty management. If it wasn't for government support in the form of protecting market share ZTE would be outcompeted by others a long time ago.
LMAO, CPC's only loyalists are Maoists, because that's their core base. Just like GOP's core base is the tea party and the alt right folks.
More Chinese patriots are now awakening due the fact of 40 years treason committed by the Dengists.
The US is slowly returning to its fascist root, and sooner or later, CPC will eventually return to its Maoist root.
The Dengism was just an aberration in the last 40 years, and now it is the time to put this show to an end.
Deng himself said: "If the society polarizes, then reform and opening up would have failed." Look at Chinese society now.
The rich elites are now pretending their selfish interests are a form of national interest. The SOEs used to be inefficient but at least provided mass employment. Nowadays they are not much more efficient and instead are cesspools for corruption and poor management.
No matter who you replace, if China don't have something to hold US by the ball, they will keep demanding. ZTE is a good example of playing tough to ignore US's warning regarding deal with Iran while itself is depending on US's Chips (LMAO) for their product...and end up to get owned. The best way for China to counter US's trade war is to diversify itself of too reliant to US either import or export, for now I think China shouldn't recklessly go for trade war but to try find the solution unless US is really pushing China to the edge of the cliff.
Comrade, your post is an example of self-contradiction. You said so yourself "they will keep pushing" and then you claim it is "reckless" to choose trade war since you think we are not at "the edge of the cliff".
Actually, it is precisely because "they will keep pushing" that we are already at "the edge of the cliff". A trade war is not reckless but it's the only way to hold them by the balls.
Besides, a trade war damages nobody but the rich elites! So why should China accept humiliation for the benefit of rich elites? The elites will sell out the country by accepting one concession after another while claiming "the enemy did not cross the red line yet so we don't need to recklessly retaliate."
The Dengist traitors just like the KMT government would just sell China for their own personal interests, but today's China is too strong, the pride is too much, so she won't go down without a brutal fight, even a weak China from the WWII didn't go down without a fight.
Whether Xi Jinping like the Maoists or not, if he don't want to become a traitor and go down as the worst Chinese leader of all time, he has to cooperate with Chairman Mao's loyalists and finished off all those Dengist traitors. And in every time when China faces a critical situation, it was Chairman Mao and his spirit saved China, and this time it won't be any exception at all.
Creating the red capitalist class was a huge blunder because it simply entrenched the political class into business without properly adopting a real free market system. The original idea was to adopt the free market system and the red capitalists would be only a transition. That never happened because the entrenched class manipulated the system to reject change.
For decades, the "transitional" period was justified by the high growth rates and infrastructure improvements. Now both have run their course and the selfish interests of the elites are now clearly pushing in a direction contrary to national interests.
What is the big deal about a trade war? The average citizen is not even affected. Yet some elites are willing to sell Taiwan to avoid a trade war.
