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Three U.S. companies have been added to China’s “unreliable
entity list,” effectively banning them from trade with China,
according to a statement by the Commerce Ministry.
The ministry said the companies have “engaged in so-called
military-technical cooperation with Taiwan, severely undermining
China’s national sovereignty, security and development
interests.”
The companies are unmanned vehicle maker Saronic Technologies,
satellite technology company Aerkomm and subsea engineering firm
Oceaneering International.
China sees self-ruled Taiwan as a breakaway province, to be
annexed by force if necessary. In July, Beijing imposed export
controls on eight enterprises tied to Taiwan’s military.
Separately, three other U.S. companies were added to China’s
export control list, preventing them from receiving Chinese
shipments of “dual use” items, with both military and civilian
applications.
The companies are military shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls
Industries, engineering and facilities manager Planate
Management Group and intelligence firm Global Dimensions.
The three companies “endanger China’s national security and
interests,” the Commerce Ministry said.
After a lengthy phone call with Xi last week, Trump said the two
leaders would meet at a regional summit in South Korea at the
end of October. Beijing and Washington say they want to iron out
differences over trade, technology and the ownership of social
media platform TikTok.
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