Donald Trump now wants to save ZTE and everyone’s confused

Chinese smartphone maker ZTE might have found a savior, and it’s the last person you’d expect.

President Donald Trump says he now wants to help save the beleaguered handset maker, tweeting Sunday that he wanted to give the company “a way to get back into business, fast.”

The president said he is working with Chinese President Xi Jinping and the U.S Commerce Department, which “has been instructed to get it done.”

While it’s not surprising that Trump would announce his support for such a move on Twitter, the fact that he’s so forcefully supporting ZTE in the first place raises eyebrows for a number of reasons. Read more…

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