Thread by @jamesfourm

Interesting, since we find ZTE at the #BudapestBridge with Telenor, who are themselves partnered with Alfa Group at Vimpelcom!

We all remember Alfa Group, don't we?

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August 2010:

"Under a 200 million euro ($254 million) contract to be announced on Monday, ZTE will build a mobile network for 4.5 million users for Telenor in Hungary."
reuters.com/article/zte/up…

In 2012 we learned ZTE, "sold Iran’s largest telecom firm a powerful surveillance system capable of monitoring landline, mobile and internet communications, interviews and contract documents show."

Hmm, who's done extensive work in Iran again?
reuters.com/article/us-ira…

Alfa Group and Vimpelcom. Again.

In the telecommunications market specifically, but they also sold nuclear technology to Iran! Go figure!
foxnews.com/story/2007/06/…

It gets worse.

Vimpelcom (now VEON) and ZTE agreed to build a "complete virtual network infrastructure" together in 2016.

What could go wrong?

*HINT* the real surveillance state is, well, actual surveillance states like China & Russia. cc @thespybrief
archive.is/XGBno

There are more places to take this, but the point is this:

Donald Trump, as "POTUS", is essentially lobbying to benefit not one, but two, hostile foreign powers through his Twitter feed.

Because #MAGA, obviously.

cc @20committee @counterchekist