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US Adds Tencent, SenseTime, CATL to Military Company List

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The US Defense Department has added dozens of Chinese companies, including technology giants Tencent, SenseTime, and CATL, to a list of companies with ties to China's military. The move has sparked protests from the listed companies, who deny having military connections and plan to challenge the designation.

The U.S. Defense Department has added major Chinese technology companies including gaming and technology company Tencent, artificial intelligence firm SenseTime and the world’s biggest battery maker CATL to its list of companies it says have ties to Ch...FILE - The American and Chinese flags wave at Genting Snow Park ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 2, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. The U.S.

“As the company is neither a Chinese military company nor a military-civil fusion contributor to the Chinese defense industrial base, it believes that its inclusion in the CMC List is a mistake,” Tencent said in an announcement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. “Unlike other lists maintained by the U.S. Government for sanctions or export control measures, inclusion in the CMC List relates only to U.S. defense procurement, which does not affect the business of the Group,” it said.

AI company SenseTime said in a statement that the decision to include it on the list had “no factual basis.”

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