"President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast," Trump said. Beijing has closely followed the developments around ZTE, a company with 80,000 employees headquartered in southern China. Against that background, the Trump administration has barred military and government employees from using smartphones from ZTE and fellow Chinese maker Huawei. "You should care more about our national security than Chinese jobs," he wrote on Twitter. But Trump said he was optimistic about the future of the countries' trade relations.

Source: Bangkok Post May 13, 2018 20:37 UTC