a unit of taiwan's foxconn is planning to buy belkin international — a maker of smartphone accessories part of foxconn‘s efforts to expand into branded goods. our asia business correspondent karishma vaswani is in singapore with more on this story. what is the reaction to this? it is not a done deal. it isn't at all, and it is important to underline that currently it has to be approved by the committee for foreign investment in the united states. just to remind our viewers what is at stake here, it is the cable and connector division of foxconn, and that company, that unit of foxconn which is based in taiwan, is planning to buy belkin international, and that makes smartphone accessories, things like wi reless smartphone accessories, things like wireless charging devices, home network products like your wi—fi route for instance, but given the fa ct route for instance, but given the fact that this purchase is going to be subject to approval from the very powerful american body looking after foreign investments, which recently if you will remember has been instrumental in representing for