US government blacklists Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi
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jbscotchman
Don't even get me started HH, this thread is gonna get very ugly.
alanm
Bummer, I like xiaomi phones. I guess that means no google apps, services after ban goes into effect.
Astyanax
looking forward to the biden administration taking steps towards diplomacy and the end of trumps antagonism.
Ghosty
This would also explain why almost all electrical goods are always out of stock.
GeroniMonk
What the actual F is going on with the Republic? Fascism, is what. God we need that Orange caveman and his psychosis GONE. I never owned a Xiomi but their GTS smartwatch is great. Also, every corporation in Silicon Valley is connected to the military and/or intelligence so this is another dangerous projection by Trump. I mean look at In-Q-Tel!
Dragam1337
Difference is that intel's ties are to their own military, not the enemies.
Badjoras
As a European Xiaomi owner, will this affect future updates and access to google store apps?
jbscotchman
I really hope that was sarcasm.
jbscotchman
I really hope you're not from America or Europe, you've been watching too much corporate news.
Edit: I'm done with this thread.
Steven Hone
They have been in an unconventional war against the west for 30 years, we are only slowly waking up to that reality recently. Their goal is to convince the world it would be better with the brutal human rights abusing no freedom system vs USA. They need to be stopped.
They have over a hundred million wumao / bots posting propaganda on the free internet, on platforms banned over there. They are using freedom against us.
They deliberatly destroy targetted industries by operating at a loss... state owned companies can operate at loss for years until the competition is destroyed. Then they buy the failing foreign companies or take over the market and jack the prices back up to what they were before or even more. Look at British steel, EU aluminium tariffs etc...
They are a destructive parasite
anticupidon
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Soulanalyzer
So if I have a smartphone Xiaomi and I travel from Europe to USA .... what will happen then?
anticupidon
The only good Xiaomi is a LineageOS flashed Xiaomi. Even so, proceed with caution.
Kaarme
Nothing. The worst outcome for you is that your phone might not receive updates from Google in the future and you may lose access to the Google Play store.
PrMinisterGR
Funny thing to criticise him for what is probably the only correct thing he's doing.
Astyanax
i wish i was, but all this antagonism leads to is jacking up prices and another million lives lost due to a war started by people only looking to make profit.
there are better ways.
Backstabak
Don't get how can anyone defend China and CCP here. They are the regime that has concentration camps where the political prisoners are forced to work, have their organs harvested, are reeducated and more and it was going on for decades. China is waging a war with the entire world, most just don't realize it. While you can be critical of Trump and his foreign policies, the dealing with China are one of the great moves he made. After all, we are the ones who invest and subsidize the CCP, give them technology and this needs to stop. We'll se what Biden will do, but I doubt he will be anything but very open to CCP.
Astyanax
Stop pretending that the USA hasn't done(doesn't do) concentration camps, forced work(prisons) or re-education
Backstabak
US doesn't have concentration camps, there aren't political prisoners and despite TV and Twitter censoring wrongthink, I still wouldn't call it forced reeducation.
Anyway, you can be critical of both.
Astyanax
Its all in how you define the terms. The anti migrant propaganda set up by certain racist government officials has done a good job at getting you to think the men, women and children locked up at the border for years aren't actually concentration camps (they are).
That you are aware of. (and if its a matter of security, why would you)
A sovereign nation is entitled to do with its citizens as it wishes, and so long as the country that claims to police what is and isn't crimes of humanity refuses to front up and face its own charges of crimes against humanity who are they to claim the moral high-ground.
the peoples republic wield the USA's history of playing both sides as rationale against the perceived weakness of a democratic republic..
All of our countries have skeletons in the closet to pull out, own up to and better ourselves for, some have been better than others in moving away from tribalistic wartime mentality.
