A growing clash between courts in China and Western countries seeking to exert rulings beyond borders could escalate, warned legal experts, after a local Chinese court issued an injunction over a dispute between smartphone giant Xiaomi and a US company. The case, an example of the Chinese judiciary’s intensifying efforts to impose long-arm jurisdiction under Beijing’s directive, can throw international lawsuits into uncharted waters, according to analysts. It started last June, when Xiaomi took…
