US effectively bans ZTE and Huawei from any valuable government work

President Trump has now signed the Defense Authorization Act into law, effectively banning the use of ZTE and Huawei components in many government or state-funded projects.
The new rules should hardly come as a surprise considering the political paranoia which has been swelling to tsunami levels over the last couple of months. With Republicans checking under their bed every night for the naughty Chinese government, it was only going to be a matter of time before the vendors were officially banne