The shares of China’s Xiaomi, the world’s third-largest maker of smartphones, plunged in Hong Kong trade on Friday after the U.S. Department of Defense labeled it as having ties to China’s military.
Xiaomi stock ended the day down 10.3%.
Xiaomi’s shares had tripled in value over the course of the year, as it won business from its main Chinese competitor Huawei Technologies, the initial target for U.S. sanctions.
The Pentagon on Thursday named Xiaomi as one of nine new names on its list of “Communist Chinese military companies,” which now contains 44 Chinese corporations. Other notable additions include COMAC, or the Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China…
In China… many private companies have links to the state. Even shareholder-owned companies have at times written the Communist Party into their charter as the ultimate controller. Any Chinese company would serve the central state if ordered to do so. And telecoms are always going to be of interest to military users.
The U.S. Department of Defense said that it “is determined to highlight and counter” China’s military-civil fusion development strategy, which supports the modernization of the People’s Liberation Army “by ensuring its access to advanced technologies and expertise acquired and developed by even those PRC companies, universities, and research programs that appear to be civilian entities.”
Putting Xiaomi and COMAC on the DoD’s list means that they are now covered by a November 12 executive order from outgoing President Donald Trump. The order states that U.S. investors, whether individuals or funds, can no longer buy the shares of these companies. The order went into effect on January 11 for the initial list of 35 companies, which included Huawei, and will apply to any newly added companies such as Xiaomi 60 days after their inclusion. U.S. investors have until November 11 to sell the shares they hold in the first set of companies.
MacDailyNews Take: McMillan also makes the important point that Xiaomi is not currently on the U.S.’s “Entity List,” but if it is added, it could be devastating to the Chinese company. The Entity List prevents companies worldwide from supplying those on the list if they use U.S. parts or technology. The Entity List ban is making it extremely difficult for Huawei to source chips for its phones, and would cause the same issue for Xiaomi.
Meanwhile Tim Cook continues to do business in Communist China for obscene corporate profits at the expense of human rights and totally SUSPENDS his SJW preachings bowing to Chinese Masters when they CENSOR the App Store. Hypocrite Grande and time to go…
Agreed!
The world is a complicated place. No one makes devices in America because it doesn’t make any business sense. Steve Jobs famously said that “those jobs are gone”. People already complain too much about the cost of Apple products. Do you have any sense what it would cost to produce an iPhone in America? The market won’t accept it. It’s just the way it is. The device you typed your comment on is likley made in china. It just one of those unfortunately compromised we make.
Another Apple Apologist that has no sense of human rights, Cook’s SJW hypocrisy and huge corporate profits.
Of course Apple is going to make huge profits (first two trillion dollar company) on insane margins with cheap slave labor. Duh…
It’s pretty sad when it falls to Apple to defend freedom and human rights around the world.
And Apple fails!
Apple is defending totalitarian censorship. It is doing totalitarian censorship. Tau, are you a communist?
Like free speech?
F’ING LISTS!
You’re five days too early with this comment.
About the only thing I’ve considered buying from them
Xiaomi Mi Box S | 4K HDR Android TV with Google Assistant Remote Streaming Media Player https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KB1KLYN/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_fabc_t4BaGb8AKYPYC?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Here’s why
Wow, who knew so many people hated cheap streaming boxes and John Darko…
Biden will clear up what is clearly a… misunderstanding.
Biden’s Administration will be CHYYYNA’s biggest purchaser of Xiaomi Devices and, of course, 10% for the Big Guy! And the American people, the low income will get the Xiaomi smartphone to replace their aging phones given free by the Lifeline Assistance government program. While rich, white privelege, well connected, Democrat elite, businessmen donors will get the enriching phone contracts and middle Americans?… They get the middle finger, the bill and the shaft. But hey, 80 million can’t be wrong.
Hope Jill gets Joe a Xiaomi watch with GPS so the secret service can find him when he wanders off (CCP can track him, too)
What about all the bugs at Mar a largo? And I’m not talking about the ones in the food.
This is good.
Apple should be blacklisted as well, since it is now a Communist company that is at war with the American Constitution and people.