Trump and the Senate's cold war over ZTE is about to turn hot

Will the president and the Senate come to blows over the Chinese telecommunications company?

A ZTE office building.
(Image credit: Illustrated | JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images, jessicahyde/iStock)

At this point, the battle lines over President Trump's trade policies are pretty hardened: Trump and his White House team are the bomb-throwing nationalists, provoking conflicts with China as well as Western allies. Meanwhile, the old hands of the Washington establishment — often represented by the Senate — have emphasized global cooperation and trade.

But on at least one issue, that script is about to get flipped.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.