ZTE's Hong Kong-listed shares fell by as much as 3.4 percent to HK$12.94 on Monday, underperforming the main Hang Seng Index's 0.2 percent decline.

China's top telecommunications gear makers should be kept from the US market because they cannot be trusted to dodge Chinese state influence and thus pose a security threat, the US House of Representatives' Intelligence Committee leaders said in a draft of a report to be released Monday.