ZTE has a bent mentality. That sort of mentality is sometimes called being penny wise and dollar foolish. Sanctions are NOT good. When a company INVITES sanctions you can wager they're trying to avoid something a LOT worse. Learning of their manipulation, connivance and dishonesty in everything they do, and the suddenly discovered reason for Guo's refusal to come to the US, we have a clear picture of a company that probably has a LOT more to hide than we'll ever know, IMHO.
Z is dancing around the issues and I can't put a finger on why. I have a strong feeling they're concealing MUCH more naughtiness than we ever dreamed, and fear we're getting closer to exposing them.
But they're still locked in the Chinese mindset of being loathe to settle with a "troll" for anything more than what THEY deem proper, which is $0.0002 per phone, or something miniscule like that.
In the beginning, they were ENCOURAGED to steal IP to make Chinese manufacturing competitive with more advanced world companies. Don't have a link to that, but it's in the papers Z submitted to the court. They also believe if they have to pay big money to foreign firms, they feel like they're essentially slaves to foreign countries, and they can't swallow that. Factor in the "flea on an elephant" mentality (with V being the flea, of course) and they can't drag themselves to the table to settle. They can't "save face" if they give in to a so-called "troll." Hiring new lawyers who walk in the front door and walk out the back seems to comport with this impression pretty well.
This is getting more interesting by the day.
