zte is dead already. u.s trump and the senate are playing good cop bad cop and tried to blackmail china even more. chinese government should stop trying to negotiate with u.s thugs on zte. it will only make zte dead even more embarrassing, painful and humiliating. white house acted as a good guy putting a noose on china's neck and saying we're not going to tight the rope and everybody knows u.s is not gonna keep their words. now you can see senate acted as a bad guy coming to do the tightening job.
Save chinese money to get more important work done rather than saving an already dead zte. the only ones can save zte are chinese and zte people themselves. working on something else, stop wasting your time and fooling around with u.s politics. those u.s thugs will not let zte go. zte should never pay any penalty money to u.s because doing business with iran isn't violating any international law. why zte and chinese government should care u.s domestic law that much if zte will no longer have any interest doing business in u.s territory? huawei already withdrew from u.s and zte will have zero chance doing anything better than huawei. so ignore those u.s bullies as long as we can get along with most of the others around this world.