The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced on Monday that it no longer plans to delist three of China’s largest telecommunication companies.
Last week, the NYSE said it was delisting China Mobile Ltd., China Telecom Corp Ltd., China Unicom Hong Kong Ltd. to comply with an executive order signed by President Trump. The order bans investments in Chinese firms the US claims have ties to China’s military and comes into effect on January 11th.
In a brief statement published on its website, the NYSE said it made the decision “in light of further consultation with relevant regulatory authorities of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).” The OFAC is the enforcement arm of the Treasury Department.
While the three companies are also listed in Hong Kong and generate their revenue in China, delisting the firms would have cut off a significant source of capital and further escalated US-China tensions. The firms have been listed on the NYSE for years. China Mobile, for example, has been on the NYSE since 1997.
President Trump’s order is part of his broader anti-China policies his administration has been ramping up in its final days. The reversal of the delisting calls into question the power a president has to prohibit Americans from investing in foreign companies.
Or the power of ANY president to really do anything of consequence. Trump presidency has proven it beyond any doubt. However wrongheaded and ill mannered some of his actions were, in essence, they simply tested.the world as it is, not as we would like it to be. And grasped the need for fundamental change.
But the Wizards behind the curtain do not wish to be challenged.
They are right, they insist. They created the myth of being the sole vanquishers of Nazism and Communism. And thus they will forever be right.
Trump stumbled like Alice in Wonderland in the world we un essence do not know. Now it is back to stories explaining how the world functions to the populace most comfortable with cartoons. The world should be gentle in waking us up.
I’m thinking the opposite of commentator Bianca. Why should the President have the power to prohibit me from investing in foreign companies? The rationale that these telecommunication companies had “ties to the military” gave me a laugh. I truly hope the anti-China polices will stop soon. Competitors are not enemies.
Oh, these guys are our enemies alright. Don’t be naive.