According to IDC, Xiaomi, which was accused last year of monitoring the incognito web browsing of users, has currently took the third largest share of the global smartphone market sitting behind Samsung ranked the first and Huawei the second.
In a statement to The Verge, Xiaomi confirmed that it operates in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations of the jurisdictions where it conducts its enterprises. The spokesman claimed that Xiaomi has not been owned, operated or associated with the Chinese military or defined under the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) as a ‘Communist Chinese Military Corporation.
Although Huawei has an all-encompassing ban, Xiaomi doesn’t seem to be stuck in the same way as Huawei. Huawei has landed on the list of corporations of the Department of Trade, while Xiaomi was included on the “Communist Chinese Military Companies” list of the Department of Defense (Huawei is also on this list). It appears that the DOD designation has only forbidden US investment in Xiaomi, and by November 11, 2021, any American stakeholders must divest their assets.
The DOD said that the list had been made to highlight and counter the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) Military-Civil Fusion development strategy. The government argued that PRC companies, universities, and research programs that appear to be civilian entities are a scheme to funnel advanced technology to the Chinese Military.
It has been said that since Xiaomi is mentioned as the world’s number 3 smartphone maker, there is not going to be anything going on with any kind of ban on the business in the US. Xiaomi has been giving clues about joining the US smartphone market since quite a few years now, but looking back it never had the courage to go through with it and released the US version of Mi.com as a small accessory vendor instead.
Xiaomi features and Specifications
Xiaomi, which began life as an Apple clone manufacturer has now been known as one of the industry’s fastest movers and new products and components have constantly been delivered to the market. It shipped the first Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 phone in the world, the Xiaomi Mi 11, and the under-display cameras have been leading the charge. To succeed in the cutthroat Chinese and Indian markets, Xiaomi has frequently been providing high-spec, low-cost Android phones.
The Chinese designers and Chinese producers of Xiaomi can interact more easily and efficiently which has been of great help to create products more quickly, in comparison with a business like Apple which has to make US designers interact through a 12-hour time zone gap and a language barrier with Chinese production.
A 1999 law mandates the Defense Department, as noted by Reuters, to compile a list of businesses owned or operated by the People’s Liberation Army. So far, 35 firms have been added by the Pentagon, including chipmaker SMIC, and Huawei had been added because of its telecoms infrastructure company that worries a few governments.
The new Huawei phones ignore Google Apps and US hardware due to the entity list of the US Commerce Department, which has restricted American organizations from exporting without a government authorization to the blacklisted firms.
Along with odd items like air purifiers, light bulbs, and toy robots, people can purchase a Xiaomi Android TV set, headphones, surveillance cameras, and battery packs as well, when in the United States.
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