Most people have already forgotten about how ZTE managed to get into court and end up being monitored by two firms, set up by the court to oversee their rehabilitation. ZTE was not only violating agreements China made to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of North Korea and Iran, they were using a “rule book” that described how they could avoid detection by a shell game of companies. When they were caught, the Commerce Department published the rule book along with their indictment.
In somewhat of a mystery, the two monitoring companies both quit, and there was an indication by Reuters that they were not able to do their job under restraints put on them by a court-appointed individual assigned to oversee the monitoring for the judge. He seems to have limited their access to both documents and people who worked for ZTE - almost like he didn’t want the team to do their job, but wanted the appearance of doing it.
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