> Sputnik was a national security matter and ZTE is a case about commerce. China...

> Sputnik was a national security matter and ZTE is a case about commerce.

China views not having full control of semiconductors and operating systems (desktop and smartphone) as a national security matter.

SilasX on June 11, 2018 [–]

And not unreasonably, given the possibility of putting backdoors into these.