Citing their role in the Chinese government’s alleged oppression of ethnic Uyghurs, the Commerce Department added China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences and its 11 research institutes to its list of companies and institutions, restricting access to exports.
The department also added HMN International, formerly Huawei Marine, as well as Jiangsu Hengtong Marine Cable Systems, Jiangsu Hengtong OpticElectric, Shanghai Aoshi Control Technology Co., Ltd., and Zhongtian Technology Submarine Cable to the list for allegedly acquiring, or attempting to acquire, technology from the United States to help modernize the People’s Liberation Army.
U.N. experts and rights groups estimate more than a million people, mainly Uyghurs and members of other Muslim minorities, have been detained in recent years in a vast system of camps in China’s far-west region of Xinjiang.The so-called entity list has become a go-to tool for Washington in the U.S.-China tech feud since the Trump administration. Suppliers to companies that have been placed on the list must seek a special license from the Commerce Department to ship goods to the targeted company.
“These actions come in the broader context of the administration’s efforts to address the misuse of technology to surveil, and in many cases, as with the PRC, to exercise large scale repressive social control,” the senior official told reporters, referring to the People’s Republic of China.The restrictions are likely to inject further mistrust into the already shaky U.S.
Reuters China is accused by THE biggest human right violator, no wonder the world is upside down Lol