The Trump administration on March 25 added dozens of Chinese companies to a trade blacklist, restricting Beijing’s ability to access advanced U.S. technology.
The Commerce Department released a list of 80 companies and affiliates to be included on its Entity List, with more than 50 of them based in China. The action makes it hard for them to receive shipments of U.S. goods from their suppliers.
“We will not allow adversaries to exploit American technology to bolster their own militaries and threaten American lives,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said in a statement.
Among those blacklisted are six subsidiaries of Inspur Group, a top Chinese cloud service provider. The Commerce Department officials determined that these entities had aided Inspur in developing supercomputers intended for military use and attempting to acquire U.S. technology to support Beijing’s supercomputer projects….