Since US President Donald Trump suggested a trade war to China in January, the trade tug of war between China and the US has gone through several rounds in the past few months, and the relevant industries of China and the US have suffered certain damages to varying degrees in this trade war. While the international community was wondering what the US would do next, it did not think that the US Department of Commerce suddenly changed its direction, and that the work on ZTE could be said to have taken the Sino-US trade war to a new height.

On the one hand, the US's rationale for imposing sanctions on ZTE has always been baffling. While there has been a lot of talk on the Internet about ZTE being sanctioned because of its work in Iran, the U.S. said the sanctions were issued because ZTE did not deduct bonuses from 35 employees. Moreover, the US Department of Commerce did not communicate with ZTE after the inquiry was completed, but directly implemented the sanctions.

On the other hand, ZTE's role is special. As the world's fourth largest telecom equipment supplier, ZTE is also a representative of China's high-tech enterprises. That dual role makes ZTE a highly feared target for the United States, which is doubly complicated at a sensitive time in Sino-American trade relations.

However, the work is not so simple as to be understood as the impact of the United States on China's high-tech enterprises. Looking back on the change of mood in the work of the United States in ZTE, it is well known that the United States was tough and determined not to negotiate at the beginning, but now the United States suddenly relaxed its mood and was willing to accept the basis submitted by ZTE. Therefore, it is speculated that the work of ZTE may become a crucial inflection point in the Sino-US trade war in the future. And this inflection point may be that the United States wants to take ZTE's work as a bargaining chip on the negotiation table, and finally give up the sanctions against ZTE and complete the separate trade war against China.