User Jason Z explains:The ZTE investigation revealed internal documents that says they were learning techniques from Huawei on how to cheat the US government when selling to Iran(using subsidiaries formed in HongKong etc...), which led the US to investigate Huawei, and this is the result. Huawei will have to pay up like ZTE, one way or the other. Plus Huawei is a way worse offender than ZTE. The Huawei CEO is ex-military, the whole company is probably a Chinese government operation. $ZTCOY, Zte Corp. / H1