Reuters reported on the 26th that the United States has added dozens of entities, including China, Iran and Pakistan, to the export restriction list, according to a notice published in the Federal Register on Tuesday. The notice said that these entities include more than 50 entities from China whose actions were found to violate US national security or foreign policy.
According to the Liberty Times, the U.S. Department of Commerce released an Entity List on Tuesday, which included approximately 80 companies and institutions. Over 50 of these are from China, with the remainder located in Iran, Pakistan, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, and Taiwan. One Taiwanese company was also included in the Entity List.
In a document released by the U.S. Department of Commerce, 12 Chinese companies related to industries such as AI large-scale model development, servers and supercomputers were included in the Entity List, including Nettrix Information Industry Co, Suma Technology Co (a brand under China Science and Technology Control), and Suma-USI Electronics.
A separate document lists 42 Chinese companies, 19 Pakistani companies, and several companies from Iran, Pakistan, South Africa, and the UAE as entities. The US Department of Commerce has sanctioned several Chinese companies, including Saihao Instruments, Anhui Kehua Trading, and Chongqing Southwest Integrated Circuit Design (SWID), for "supporting China's quantum technology development."
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun stated at a regular press conference, "The US has abused export control tools such as the Entity List, using the pretext of endangering US national security and violating US foreign policy to arbitrarily impose illegal unilateral sanctions. This is a typical act of hegemonism, a serious violation of international law and basic norms governing international relations, severely damaging the legitimate rights and interests of businesses, and undermining the security and stability of the global supply chain. China firmly opposes this and strongly condemns it."
He also urged the US to stop "generalizing the concept of national security," stop politicizing, instrumentalizing, and weaponizing economic, trade, and technological issues, and stop abusing various sanctions lists and unreasonably suppressing Chinese companies. "China will take necessary measures to firmly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies."
