Tag: Entity List

After Pig Farming and Car Sales, China’s Telecom Huawei Is Going to Sell Cosmetics

China’s telecom Huawei has been hit by four rounds of U.S. sanctions in less than two years. After nearly eight months of chip shortages, Huawei’s smartphone business has been battered, forcing it to expand into “crossover” businesses, such as smart pig farming, mining, and car sales. On May 4, Bonjour Holdings Limited, one of Hong…


US Adds Chinese Supercomputing Entities to Trade Blacklist Over Chinese Military Ties

The U.S. Commerce Department said April 8 it was adding seven Chinese supercomputing entities to a U.S. economic blacklist for assisting Chinese military efforts. The department is adding Tianjin Phytium Information Technology, Shanghai High-Performance Integrated Circuit Design Center, Sunway Microelectronics, the National Supercomputing Center Jinan, the National Supercomputing Center Shenzhen, the National Supercomputing Center Wuxi,…


US Sets New Rules to Block American Purchases of Chinese Telecom Tech

The U.S. Commerce Department on Jan. 14 announced new rules to allow the federal government to block American companies from buying information and communications technology from five foreign adversaries, including China. The new rules were made to implement an executive order (E.O. 13873) that President Donald Trump signed in May 2019 to safeguard U.S. supply…


Chinese Regime Introduces New Commerce Rules In Retaliation Against US Sanctions

China’s Ministry of Commerce issued new rules on Jan. 9 in a bid to counter sanctions and restrictions imposed by foreign governments against Chinese companies and individuals. According to an order on “unjustified” foreign legislation published on the Ministry’s website, it instructs Chinese entities to report within 30 days if they are affected by foreign…


Chinese Regime Introduces New Commerce Rules in Response to US Sanctions

China’s Ministry of Commerce issued new rules on Jan. 9 in a bid to push back on sanctions and restrictions imposed by foreign governments against Chinese companies and individuals. An order on “unjustified” foreign legislation published on the Ministry’s website instructs Chinese entities to report within 30 days if they are affected by foreign laws…


China Poaches Japanese Scientists to Conduct Research Beneficial to Beijing: Report

At least 44 Japanese researchers were part of a Chinese state-sponsored recruitment program, including to conduct research with military applications, according to an investigation by Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun. The findings were published on the outlet’s English-language website Japan News on Jan. 2. The Chinese job program under scrutiny is the Thousand Talent Plan (TTP),…