** Chinese companies' U.S.-listed shares fall in premarket
trade on worries a China hawk will be appointed as top U.S.
diplomat and take a hard line on trade and tariffs
** Donald Trump is expected to tap Senator Marco Rubio to be
his secretary of state, sources told Reuters on Monday
** Shanghai Composite .SSEC closed 1.4% lower, blue-chip
CSI 300 .CSI300 fell 1.1% and Hang Seng .HSI closed 2.8%
lower .SS .HK
** Alibaba BABA.N down 3.3%, JD.com JD.O falls 5.6% and
PDD Holdings PDD.O down 2.9%
** EV firms Li Auto LI.O falls 5.3%, Nio NIO.N down 4.9%
and Xpeng XPEV.N slides 6.2%
** Bilibili BILI.O down 5.4%, Baidu BIDU.O declines
2.9%, and iQIYI IQ.O falls 3.1%
** Tencent Music TME.N , which missed Q3 rev ests, down
5.9% and Weibo WB.O slips 2.6%
** Chinese ETFs such as iShares MSCI China ETF MCHI.O down
2.3%, KraneShares CSI China ETF KWEB.P slides 3.3% and iShares
China Large-Cap ETF FXI.P down 2.7%
(Reporting by Sukriti Gupta in Bengaluru)
((Sukriti.Gupta@thomsonreuters.com;))