Following Huawei, Xiaomi Added to US Blacklist For Alleged Chinese Military Ties

[john_]

I assume the won't ban Samsung ...

Not yet. Maybe after US is in a position to offer top OLED/LCD/Future tech screens.

"The move, enforced via a presidential executive order"
Well that explains a lot, Biden has quite the job ahead overturning all these stupid, childish decisions by the man child incumbent.
I'm sure sanctions will be overturned and business as usual will continue to the benefit of all parties.

Apologies if this seems political, but this topic is political and therefore relevant.

Well, in many cases new governments that agree with choices that are not popular, choices made from previous governments, tend to keep them and not overturn them. They might try to convince people that they can fix those decisions, by altering them, I mean like 1% alteration, or just postpone the cancellation of those choices for various, not always logical or believable, reasons. I don't think US is going to change the new route it took in dealing with China. It could even get worst.

 

[henok.gk]

Saw this coming tbh. Everyone who's competitive with their products coming from China bites the dust sooner or later.

 

[Vya Domus]

I'm sure sanctions will be overturned and business as usual will continue to the benefit of all parties.

I really doubt that but we'll see, remember that this was the result of "business as usual" as well.

 

[Flanker]

Do people actually buy HTC phones anymore? I feel like their market share is below 0.5%
I remember back in the day everyone used to have one.

The part of HTC was purchased by google iirc. HTC only makes VR headsets now

 

[Tartaros]

Beware everyone, every phone and every commercial product connected to the internet for that matter is collecting your data.

I still can't believe people kid themselves into thinking only certain OSes/brands do this.

Nah, because jingoism.

It doesn't matter how many times you explain that, it is a matter of feelings. I still remember how EEUU was spying Germany during the Obama years and it was like "look m8, you understand I had to do this right?"

 

[Ruru]

I assume the won't ban Samsung ...

Samsung is South Korean, so I don't see any reason why they would ban Samsung.

 

[Vya Domus]

I don't see any reason why they would ban Samsung.

And I don't see any reason why they would stop. Think about this, everyone is forgetting that this is a major blow to Google, just with Huawei and Xiaomi alone that's potentially hundreds of millions of users of their services gone just like that. If they are willing to do that in order to stop competing hardware manufactures then there is really no limit.

It's only a matter of finding a good enough reason to hide their real intentions.

 

[hat]

And I don't see any reason why they would stop. Think about this, everyone is forgetting that this is a major blow to Google, just with Huawei and Xiaomi alone that's potentially hundreds of millions of users of their services gone just like that. If they are willing to do that in order to stop competing hardware manufactures then there is really no limit.

It's only a matter of finding a good enough reason to hide their real intentions.

Hundreds of millions? Total US population is only 330 million or so, and most of us will just get a different brand of phone anyway. You seem to be suggesting that most of the US population is using Xiaomi or Huawei (or indeed any Chinese brand) and will switch to... something other than Android.

 

[JoniISkandar]

Hundreds of millions? Total US population is only 330 million or so, and most of us will just get a different brand of phone anyway. You seem to be suggesting that most of the US population is using Xiaomi or Huawei (or indeed any Chinese brand) and will switch to... something other than Android.

Seem you forget about how Murica force google and other supplier like Qualcomm to stop Huawei using them, is not just about murica market using Xiaomi, but every US company like google to leave Xiaomi phone in the future,

Soon one by one great phone maker from china will face same fate because how america act like "World Police", apple is suck in every way they ego and smug behavior making them so not Innovate other than they act like luxury item, and then asian making better phone and better Innovation they just wipe out with political power

 

[micropage7]

The US Department of Defense (DOD) said in a statement that "The Department is determined to highlight and counter the People's Republic of China's (PRC) Military-Civil Fusion development strategy, which supports the modernization goals of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) 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". Xiaomi has been classified as one of nine "Communist Chinese military companies".

and it's hard to deny that it's from the national policy. if intel is from china they must obey it, but business is business. personally i doubt US will kick Huawei and Xiaomi 100%, they must run something undercover

 

[Flanker]

Personally i doubt US will kick Huawei and Xiaomi 100%, they must run something undercover

I think for telecom stuff, US has a 5 year plan to gradually phase out Huawei

 

[watzupken]

It is not surprising that Xiaomi will end up in the blacklist eventually, along with the rest of the Chinese phone makers at some point. Huawei took the brunt of it because they were aggressively pushing for their 5G network to the rest of the world despite AU and US claiming the risk of using Huawei hardware to provide 5G network. So to put an end to their aggressive push, putting them in the entity list as you can tell now basically stop them short of whatever 5G hardware they were manufacturing. For how long, I am not too sure. But should be long enough to let other competitors catch up. At this point, Xiaomi don't have that level of risk to end up in the entity list.

 

[mechtech]

What I find shocking is all the business the US and the rest of the world still does with them despite all the troubling issues, the man made islands in the sea, the dams cutting off the water to the other countries, the Uyghur genocide, labour laws, environmental issues, etc. etc.

 

[R-T-B]

What I find shocking is all the business the US and the rest of the world still does with them despite all the troubling issues, the man made islands in the sea, the dams cutting off the water to the other countries, the Uyghur genocide, labour laws, environmental issues, etc. etc.

Pick a country you'll have a list of issues. The USA ourselves have quite a list honestly.

Thar being said, I agree China's behavior is troubling. I'm not justifying it, only showing you how the people who do regular business with that market likely do.

 

[Hyderz]

Oppo gonna be next?