Trade war: USA regards Xiaomi as “Sino-Communist military company”

Source: Heise.de added 15th Jan 2021

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The US Department of Defense has released an updated list of companies believed to be associated with the Chinese military. From now on, Xiaomi is also regarded as a “Chinese Communist military company”.

Xiaomi’s core business includes smartphones, which because of their good price -Performance ratio are also popular in Germany – the series Redmi, Mi and Poco should be mentioned. Xiaomi now sells the third most smartphones worldwide. Other electronic devices in the manufacturer’s range include televisions, PC monitors and vacuum robots.

Huawei is followed by Xiaomi With the classification as a “Chinese Communist military company”, Xiaomi threatens a similar fate as competitor Huawei, who is also on this list. Unlike Huawei, however, Xiaomi is a pure electronics company with no division for network equipment. The US government accuses Huawei of spying for the Chinese military, and is therefore excluding the company from the domestic 5G expansion.

Effects for Xiaomi could become apparent if the US Department of Commerce approved the Ministry of Defense follows and puts the company on the so-called “Entity List”. Then Xiaomi would no longer use Google services and buy smartphone processors with US technology without an exception.

Reference date in November According to the US intelligence service Reuters at the 11. November 2021 – from then on, US companies are no longer allowed to invest in companies that are associated with the Chinese military.

In a statement to The Verge Xiaomi writes that you can contact Keep the laws and regulations of the countries in which you operate. “Xiaomi does not belong to the Chinese military, is not controlled by them and has no connection with it. is not a ‘Sino-Communist military company’ as it is defined under the National Defense Authorization Act, “it says with China. Possibly the topic will take care of itself for Xiaomi.

(mma)

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