Reuters and the Financial Times have echoed the inclusion of Xiaomi on Trump’s blacklist and therefore the United States Government. It is not a measure that may affect the use of Android – it is a blacklist related to investment and military relations – but it certainly sows concern in the market, given what happened with Huawei.
Despite the fact that it is taken for granted that Trump has hours left in the White House, in fact until his move has been made public and mediated, he wants to leave giving the note. In this case, the bureaucratic objective of their movements is none other than Xiaomi and the national oil company Cnooc (China National Offshore Oil Corporation.
Both enter another blacklist – not the one that left Huawei out, although Huawei is also on this one at hand – which focuses its ban on investment in companies that work with the Chinese army. It is true that all this may return to normal with the arrival of Joe Biden, although experts assure that due to the American system of government the new president will have a very difficult time undoing Trump’s wrongs in this regard, since where everything is decided this seems that those of Trump are majority.
Qualcomm
One of the first problems that Xiaomi could have is with Qualcomm. Why? This measure obliges all American companies that have investments with them to undo them before November 11 of this year. Qualcomm and Xiaomi, as XDA comments, have joint businesses and investments, so that availability of on-demand processors for the Chinese firm could be affected. The “Kirin” of Xiaomi in sight? it could be an option, while installing the best that is on the market.
Android
As for Android, in principle it should not affect, but it is a reality that Xiaomi should feel some uneasiness as it is already on the list of companies indicated by Trump. In addition, it should be remembered that Xiaomi has its own fork of Android, we can say that something like its own version of Android, so in the worst case, we insist that it is not on the same list as Huawei, which they could be taking away your access to Google Services.
Alibaba may have made the list
Xiaomi, which unseated Apple as the third mobile seller by number of units, has seen its shares fall by 14% when it became known about its inclusion in the aforementioned black list. On the other hand, it is important to know that Alibaba was another of the companies to include, but Steven Mnuchin, secretary of the treasury, has avoided it after a tough internal battle. Without a doubt, if it had entered the list, the media storm would have been even greater, considering what Alibaba implies in terms of global e-commerce.
Let’s hope that this movement of the still called “Trump administration” does not go beyond being a mere media boom that affects investments and other issues to the manufacturer but that does not veto the use of Android or in its case of Google services, something that As we all know, it has done a lot of damage to Huawei. A movement that we believe has not done mobile telephony any favors and that we really hope will not be repeated.
