Five more Chinese universities have been added to the U.S. entity sanctions list. Chinese netizens have discovered that all of China’s “Defense 7” have now been selected. After being added to the sanctions list, importing products from U.S. companies requires approval from U.S. authorities, which is tantamount to a technology embargo. However, some analysts say that China may be able to obtain sensitive technology in other names and through other bypasses.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Ross on Dec. 18 issued a statement on the 77 Chinese entities that the U.S. Department of Commerce has cited for “human rights violations, militarization of the South China Sea and theft of U.S. trade secrets. Multiple sources on the Chinese web identified five new Chinese universities on the list: Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing University of Technology, and Tianjin University.
With the addition of the 13 Chinese universities listed in May, a total of 18 Chinese universities are now on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s sanctions list. Among them are the Chinese universities known as the “Seven Sons of National Defense” in China.
These seven sons in addition to the latest list of Beijing Institute of Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Nanjing University of Technology, in addition to the last selected Northwestern Polytechnic University, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin Engineering University. According to the introduction, the above universities are involved in China’s military, weapons, equipment, aerospace, electronic information, chemical and materials projects.
According to the introduction, the U.S. entities included in the sanctions list of enterprises or universities, such as imports from U.S. companies, need to be approved by the U.S. authorities, the same as technology sanctions. Previously, Washington has banned students and researchers from a group of universities with Chinese military background from entering certain sensitive areas of U.S. universities in order to prevent the theft of U.S. high technology. However, some analysts say that China may be able to use other universities or units to circumvent U.S. sanctions through other countries.
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