Washington orders Chinese phone carrier out of US market

China Telecom is among companies that were expelled from US stock exchanges under an order by Donald Trump barring Americans from investing in them (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

US regulators are expelling a unit of China Telecom, one of the country’s three major state-owned carriers, from the American market as a national security threat amid rising tension with Beijing.

China Telecom (Americas) is required to stop providing domestic interstate and international service in the United States within 60 days, under an order approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).