A man rides past a routing box for phone lines, installed by ZTE for Venezuela's national telecommunications company CANTV in Barinas, Venezuela, in this September file photo. Photo: Reuters
China’s ZTE may have cheated on US deal by installing Dell hardware for Venezuela, senators tell White House
- Senators Marco Rubio and Chris Van Hollen told top members of Donald Trump’s cabinet that ZTE helped build a surveillance system for Venezuela’s government
- But components of the system may have been provided by US tech firm Dell, in violation of commitments by ZTE to uphold American sanctions
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A man rides past a routing box for phone lines, installed by ZTE for Venezuela's national telecommunications company CANTV in Barinas, Venezuela, in this September file photo. Photo: Reuters