Thursday, May 13th 2021
Xiaomi no Longer Blacklisted by the US Government
The US Government, specifically the Department of Defense (DoD), has under the Trump administration blacklisted the Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi. This was a way to impose sanctions on the Chinese company as it was believed that Xiaomi was involved with the Chinese military, thus the Trump organization had problems having US investors taking a share of it. However, the company has issued legal proceedings against the US government for making such claims, and now the US govt., administrated by the President Joe Biden, has reached an agreement with the company. Xiaomi managed to prove that it is not owned or controlled by the Chinese military, so the US DoD has removed the company from its blacklist.
This has caused the company shares to soar on the Hong Kong stock exchange by as much as 6.7% after the news appeared. "The Biden Administration is deeply concerned about potential U.S. investments in companies linked to the Chinese military and fully committed to keeping up pressure on such companies", said Emily Horne, a spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council.
Source:
Bloomberg
This has caused the company shares to soar on the Hong Kong stock exchange by as much as 6.7% after the news appeared. "The Biden Administration is deeply concerned about potential U.S. investments in companies linked to the Chinese military and fully committed to keeping up pressure on such companies", said Emily Horne, a spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council.
30 Comments on Xiaomi no Longer Blacklisted by the US Government
It's a little heavy on resources but it has so much added functionality.
Now, the Asus zenfone 8 (asus being from taiwan) was released a couple of days ago, and its amazing. And not that expensive for the features it sports.
But I still like my Xiaomi Mi 9T.... Its been almost two years, zero issues. One thing, but I was expecting this, the battery has degraded almost to a half.
MIUI is not that bad, it comes with a lot of features that in other phones, I would need to purchase separately.
My Mate 9 had so many options that i could mess with under the hood. MiUi is pretty bare compared to it. There are also bugs that have been in the OS for long time and despite many complaints and updates. Xiaomi has never fixed them - It also feels less direct in the sense that i have to jump through quite a few hoops in the settings to find what im looking for and some of them either arent there or dont work. such as the setting to use my own DNS of choice. The way they have it set up isnt very intuitive and even when you manage to get it to accept a DNS server it still doesnt work. There are quite a few things like this in their OS where you can clearly see an option to change something but it doesnt work.
It feels very discombobulated
I disabled and uninstalled heaps of Apps I don't use or need, including Xiaomi Cloud, so no back ups.
Glad to see their phones on the market again. They are cheap, and quality.
Stop the geo-political BS
Stop the insulting/name-calling
Thank You and have a civil discussion.
Pixel Experience ROMs are usually well maintained and problem free for most Xiaomi devices.
That is however also an issue since it sometimes messes with apps that people DO want to works.
You can however switch off MUI optimizations in the developer settings, but I'm not sure how well that helps with any such issues, you tell me for I do not know.To unlock Xiaomi forces you to make an account/have the phone call home first though. It's not an issue for most, but still. it's unpleasant.
WTF, why can't I make a separate post and is everything bundled, What is this annoying BS?
Welcome back btw.Yes, that's why Xiaomi has a reputation as being "garbage" in build quality. Oh wait, it doesn't! It's actually top tier! What's this new craziness?
The concern is and should only be security related for their products at this point in time. And for that, I'd be more concerned with the shipped OS then the hardware or quality.