Xiaomi says on Sunday it has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the former
Trump administration s last-minute blacklisting of the electronics giant. Xiaomi said it filed the appeal with a Washington federal court Friday after former president Donald Trump s administration barred investment in the firm, saying the Beijing-headquartered company was a part of the Chinese military. Xiaomi said it believes that the decision . was factually incorrect and has deprived the company of legal due process. With a view to protect the interest of its global users, partners, employees and shareholders, Xiaomi Corporation has filed proceedings in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the Department of Defense and Department of Treasury of the United States, for listing the company as “Communist Chinese Military Company, the statement added.
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As XDA Developers points out, the US s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) classifies Communist Chinese military companies as any person identified in the Defense Intelligence Agency publication numbered VP-1920-271-90, dated September 1990, or PC-1921-57-95, dated October 1995, and any update of those publications for the purposes of this section along with any other person that–(i) is owned or controlled by the People’s Liberation Army; and (ii) is engaged in providing commercial services, manufacturing, producing, or exporting .
The US hasn t elaborated any further on how Xiaomi - a company which specialises in consumer electronics - fits into this, or what evidence they have to back this up.
Xiaomi is also vulnerable to Trump s executive order.
Order bans US firms from investing in such companies.
New Delhi: After Huawei and ZTE, the US government has now taken on the Chinese conglomerate Xiaomi, blacklisting it as a Communist Chinese military company .
In a fresh list, the US Department of Defense has targeted Xiaomi, which means that the company is also vulnerable to the outgoing President Donald Trump s executive order that bans the US firms from investing in such companies.
The move may force US companies and other investors to divest in Xiaomi this year. The Department is determined to highlight and counter the People s Republic of China s (PRC) Military-Civil Fusion development strategy, which supports the modernisation 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 programmes that appear to be civilian entities, the Dep