I’ve read it’s due to the close ties between Huawei and the state, but in places like China I would assume there’s legislation to force any producers to do mostly anything the government say. Like in the US.
Is Xiaomi producing professional 5G network equipment? I don’t think this is primarily about smartphones and consumer electronics.
Because Xiaomi isn’t as big of a competitor to Western companies than Huawei. Huawei produces servers, networking equipment, and other enterprise level tech, and they’re both very good at it and only one of a handful of companies producing some of the stuff they do (the other ones being Western companies). Xiaomi produces mostly consumer electronics that frankly is barely relevant in the West compared to Western companies because there is so much more competition from others.
Basically, if you can eliminate one player out of five where you have your fingers in the other four, that’s way more beneficial to you than trying to eliminate one player out of five hundred, even if you have your fingers in all 499 other ones.
Xiaomi lacks the patents and uses Qualcomm Snapdragon hardware. This is the same reason Honor will remain unaffected similar to Xiaomi. The goal was to destroy 5G patent pool of Huawei and prevent people from buying mainstream phones devoid of NSA backdoors.
Huawei is infinitely more popular in the US. You could buy Huawei phones from all the big phone companies years ago. Are Verizon/AT&T/etc. branded Xiaomi phones even available?
Huawei has one of the largest Innovation and Development , I+D, departments in the world; With a large number of patents in both software and hardware, registered trademarks, intellectual property and a presence in many fields of science: artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, aeronautics, energy, defense, semiconductors, etc. practically comparable to the giants in the sector such as Intel, AMD, Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, etc. but with the added value of being a manufacturing corporation and having all the raw materials, as well as a large amount of cheap labor. Little dependent on the West.
Huawei is more strategic in geopolitical terms, Xiaomi and other similar companies to a greater or lesser extent use patents or indirectly depend on Huawei, especially in IoT and Telecommunications
