Obama would have been skewered for saying anything like that. How is this in America's interests at all, much less "America first"?
Protectionist economics is far less important to the Republican base than their peculiar spin on nationalism.
Boy! This global economy stuff is complicated. Qualcomm sells them chips so stands to lose some business, but also the Chinese are fighting Qualcomm's acquisition of NXP while Broadcom wants to buy Qualcomm. Meanwhile back in China NTE is looking to buy chips from Taiwan's Med-tec and Apple is moving from Qualcomm to intel. The Trump administration seems to be tied into it all somehow.
It's not, and I disapprove of any such cronyism within the government. It's America First, second or Last. I've adapted that ideology to my death bed. I love this country, even when I disagree with it.
The bad: it's a Chinese government owned corporation. It'd be like China bailing out the Department of Education. The not so bad: no chance he'd get any sort of appropriations, and he didn't go into detail at all. Who knows what he has planned.
Trumplandia. But seriously, we are forcing Boeing and Airbus to cancel contracts with Iran, but this phone company sold US technology to Iran and NK that was prohibited and they are going to get left off the hook?
It just seems so indefensible. Even on some ultra conservative sites the only answer is that it must be some bargaining chip for something we haven't seen yet.
Trump working hard to save jobs in Chinese telecom company ZTE. And three days later.... the Chinese government supplies $500 billion for a Trump project in Indonesia. And this is the company that was sanctioned by US in 2017 for violating the Iran sales ban. So we withdraw from the Iran deal, and the President withdraws from enforcing sanctions on Iran. If the right is not fuming about this, what is it they stand for?
