Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi follows Huawei onto US blacklist

Chip equipment maker Amec also targeted as Trump administration winds down

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Smartphone maker Xiaomi is among the nine Chinese companies added to a U.S. trade blacklist in the final days of the Trump administration. (Photo by Karina Nooka) © Reuters

CHENG TING-FANG and LAULY LI, Nikkei staff writers

TAIPEI -- Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has been added to a U.S. blacklist that will restrict American investment into the company, as the outgoing Trump administration ratchets up tension with Beijing by intensifying its crackdown on Chinese corporate interests.

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