Despite President Donald Trump’s ‘personal favor’ to Chinese President Xi Jinping to get ZTE up and running again, the Senate has approved a bill which includes an amendment to reimpose the export ban on the Chinese giant.

Huawei will be watching the situation closely. US Senator Marco Rubio tweeted that ZTE poses a ‘significant threat’ to US national security. “If we can put them out of business we must & should.”

The tweet included the hashtag #Huaweiisnext with a follow up post claiming the company is “100 times worse” than ZTE. Both Google and Facebook have also faced questions about their relationship with the Chinese company.

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