People walk past a Xiaomi store in Beijing on January 15, 2021, while the company’s stock collapsed on January 15 after the United States blacklisted the smartphone giant and a host of other Chinese companies.
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In a ruling on Friday, US District Judge Rudolph Contreras granted Xiaomi a preliminary injunction against the Trump-era order. The judge said Xiaomi would suffer “irreparable damage in the form of serious reputational and irreparable economic damage without assistance.”
Contreras wrote that there is “clearly a lack of substantial evidence to adequately support a finding that Xiaomi is a CCMC.”
Xiaomi said it was “pleased” with the ruling, saying it “will continue to request the court to declare the designation illegal and remove the designation permanently.”
“Xiaomi reiterates that it is a widespread, publicly traded and independently managed company offering consumer electronics products for civil and commercial use only,” the company said in a statement on Saturday.
Xiaomi believes that the decisions to designate it as a Chinese Communist Military Society are arbitrary and erratic, and the judge agrees. “