Former Huawei smartphone unit faces a blacklist

Key security agencies are divided over whether to place Huawei's former smartphone company on an export blacklist, showing that the Trump-era debates about the trade-offs of doing business with Chinese technology companies continue during the Biden administration.

Last week, career personnel at four agencies responsible for making such decisions split on whether to put the smartphone-maker, Honor, on the Commerce Department's entity list, which bars exports of U.S. technology to the sanctioned firm without a department license...