The U.S. Department of Commerce has blacklisted more than 60 companies with ties to the Communist Party of China’s military industry and ties to the government, barring them from accessing U.S. technology, according to a Dec. 18 report in National Pulse.
Those placed on the ban include China’s largest chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.
We will not allow advanced U.S. technology to help build the military of an increasingly belligerent adversary,” said U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. Because of SMIC’s close ties to the military-industrial complex, the Communist Party’s aggressive promotion of civil-military integration, and government subsidies, SMIC perfectly exemplifies the risk that the Communist Party will use U.S. technology to support its military modernization.”
The new rules “restrict the ability of SMIC and more than 60 companies with ties to the CCP to “acquire certain U.S. technologies” by requiring U.S. exporters to apply for licenses to sell to those companies.
The Commerce Department added that “uniquely advanced technologies for producing semiconductors smaller than 10 nanometers will be denied in order to prevent such critical technologies from being used in the CCP’s civil-military integration efforts.” .
The other 60 companies, “include entities that support human rights abuses in China, entities that support militarization and illegal maritime claims in the South China Sea, entities that acquire U.S. products in support of People’s Liberation Army programs, and entities and individuals engaged in theft of U.S. trade secrets.”
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