No one's worried about Trump directing the commerce department to fix the jobs situation for ZTE?
I mean, yeah. ZTE is likely spying on Americans, and certainly is in violations of U.S. sanctions. However, Trump is gonna give into Chinese demands regarding ZTE because he's an idiot and doesn't realize that blows in a trade war can come from a great many places. He's scared that China will tariff the shit out American wheat, corn, soy, pork, and beef.* These products are grown in red states and Trump wants to protect "his people." The problem is that the man is short-sighted and impulsive; he will happily sabotage our national security because security threats are more attenuated than the immediate imposition of tariffs to American products. Hard to believe that this could likely have been avoided by simply not starting a trade war.
*American Agri-business is, quite frankly, amazing. I believe that we are top five in all of them, and top in Corn, Wheat, and Pork. When people say "America doesn't 'make' anything" tell them to frig off. And, of course, free trade is amazing for these products, which I must bring up vis-a-vis the pending Chino-American trade war.