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foreverlax wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2019 10:42 am
Today's WSJ
Trump Administration Extends License Enabling Huawei to Work With U.S. Customers
Commerce Department officials grant 90-day extension to license that has allowed Chinese company to do some business within the U.S.
What Trump actually said -
Q On Huawei — is the administration going to allow U.S. businesses to continue selling to Huawei? Is there going to be an extension of the license tomorrow?
THE PRESIDENT: No. That was reported. And, actually, it’s the opposite. Huawei. Huawei is a company we may not do business with at all. And it was sort of reported, I think the opposite, today — I was surprised — that we are open to doing business. We’re actually open not to doing business with them. So I don’t know who gave the report.
It's an extension to allow US suppliers to continue to sell sub-components to Huawei & to allow rural ISP's to buy what they need to sustain connectivity. No national security implications.
Huawei is a national security issue, not just a trade issue.
Update from Defense One :
...a move it said would help small rural telecom carriers dependent on Huawei gear."
That small, rural telecom community is believed to include "about 40 mostly rural U.S. cellphone carriers and cable operators" totalling "less than 1% of equipment used by U.S. telecom networks."
So...you're saying Trump is an idiot???
I'm not saying anything about Trump.
I was talking about what's actually going on with Huawei, in national security terms.
Of course it's impossible to discuss anything without making it an argument about Trump.
Severe TDS.
You do realize that this thread is the Orange Duce thread, right?
And the post you were commenting on above with foreverlax included Trump's nonsensical baloney?
Pretty hard to ignore the butthead, but somehow you want to talk about Huawei... with zero regard to Trump?
Seems to me your trying to actually discuss this rationally just points out again what an idiot Trump is...but, nah, let's ignore that.
That's right. Trump has rendered you incapable of rational discussion on anything tangentially related to him. TDS symptom.
It ain't "tangential". He's knee deep in it. And that's what he wants!
Look, if you want to discuss something that the President of the United States doesn't tweet or spout off about, have at it.
Probably doesn't belong in the Orange Duce thread though.
What's become not so puzzling to any of us is how you keep trying to discuss some knucklehead tweet or spout from POTUS, as if it's actually a rational thing he's dealing with ...rationally. We get it. You "want him to succeed because if he succeeds America succeeds".
Too bad he's such a numbskull.
You're making my hair hurt. I was discussing Huawei restrictions in the thread where Huawei restrictions were being discussed.
I didn't raise the topic. If I had, it would have been in the All Things China thread. Sheesh !
good lord, the post you were responding to was about Trump's numb nuts comments on Huawei.
In the Orange Duce thread.
And you want to scold me for staying on topic, Trump's idiocy?
Stop trying to normalize the jerk or at least recognize that when you do so, folks are going to recognize and point out the contrast between what appears to be informative and rational in your post stands in stark contrast to Trump's idiotic tweets, spouts, and rants.
Stop crying TDS all the time. It's lame.