Columbia, United States.
A federal judge of USA. decided to suspend the ban on investing in the Chinese mobile phone giant Xiaomi to consider the U.S. Government’s argument about its links to the Armed Forces and the Chinese government “deeply defective“.
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The federal judge of the District of Columbia Rudolph Contreras suspended Friday night the determination of the Department of Defense to include a Xiaomi to the blacklist of Chinese technologies that pose a risk to national security.
Contreras considered the decision, imposed by the Donald Trump administration in January, to be binding Xiaomi with the Chinese army, Was not properly substantiated and is considered unproven and is therefore suspended.
For its part, Xiaomi celebrate the legal victory and assured that he will continue to seek a permanent repeal of the ban on investing in the company, which forced him to stop selling shares of the technology in United States and to ask all its investors in U.S. jurisdiction to dispose of their securities before the age of one year.
“Xiaomi is a company that manufactures products for civil use and is controlled by an independent board and shareholders and is not effectively controlled or associated with us under the control of the Government of the People’s Republic of China or their security services, “the judge said in his ruling.
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the Pentagon had based Xiaomi’s alleged ties to the Chinese Government on the awarding of a Chinese state award, but the judge considers that this is not reason enough, as this award has been received by hundreds of entrepreneurs and is becoming standard in the technology sector.
Xiaomi is one of the victims of the trade and technological war between United States and China, Which focuses on determining the future in the dominance of strategic semiconductor or telecommunications sectors globally.
The Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei was the main focus in the attempts of the Administration of Donald Trump, Which culminated in the past January 20, To limit the influence of Chinese technology in the country and therefore was the subject of bans on trade and operation, especially with regard to mobile technology 5G.
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The social network Tik Tok, Owned by China ByteDance, Was another of Trump ‘s goals for the potential use he could make of Chinese government of private information or the influence of this video platform on United Statess.
For now, the actions against Tik Tok they do not appear to have led to either a ban or sale of their assets to a U.S. investor, as he threatened Trump, i Huawei it is also achieving small legal victories against its ban.
the Administration of Democrat Joe Biden has remained in the background in this legal battle and has suggested that it will not move tab until it negotiates the framework of relations with China with its allies. EFE