{"id":983465,"date":"2026-01-05T11:41:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983465"},"modified":"2026-01-05T11:41:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:11:40","slug":"trump-administration-blocks-3-million-chip-deal-citing-national-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/05\/trump-administration-blocks-3-million-chip-deal-citing-national-security-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration blocks $3 million chip deal citing national security concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Donald Trump administration has blocked US photonics company HieFo Corp\u2019s $3 million deal to acquire New Jersey-based aerospace and defense specialist Emcore, citing national security and China-related concerns. In an executive order dated January 2, 2026, Trump said that HiefFo was \u201ccontrolled by a citizen of the People&#8217;s Republic of China\u201d and that it might \u201cmight take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United States\u201d. However, the order did not name any individual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Transaction is hereby prohibited, and ownership by HieFo of any interest or rights in any of the Emcore Assets, whether effected directly or indirectly through HieFo, or through HieFo\u2019s partners, subsidiaries, affiliates, or foreign person shareholders (collectively, Affiliates), is also prohibited,\u201d the order stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Donald Trump administration has blocked US photonics company HieFo Corp\u2019s $3 million deal to acquire New Jersey-based aerospace and defense specialist Emcore, citing national security and China-related concerns. In an executive order dated January 2, 2026, Trump said that HiefFo was \u201ccontrolled by a citizen of the People&#8217;s Republic of China\u201d and that it might \u201cmight take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United States\u201d. However, the order did not name any individual. \u201cThe Transaction is hereby prohibited, and ownership by HieFo of any interest or rights in any of the Emcore Assets, whether effected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}