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US Blacklists Dozens of Chinese Firms Including Chip, Drone Makers

Reuters

   The United States added dozens of Chinese companies, including the
   country's top chipmaker SMIC and Chinese drone manufacturer SZ DJI
   Technology, to a trade blacklist on Friday as U.S. President Donald
   Trump's administration ratchets up tensions with China in his final
   weeks in office.

   Reuters first reported the addition of SMIC and other companies earlier
   Friday. The move was seen as the latest in Republican Trump's efforts
   to burnish his tough-on-China image as part of a lengthy fight between
   Washington and Beijing over trade and numerous economic issues.

   The U.S. Commerce Department said the action against SMIC stemmedfrom
   Beijing's efforts to harness civilian technologies for military
   purposes and evidence of activities between SMIC and Chinese military
   industrial companies of concern. The Commerce Department will "not
   allow advanced U.S. technology to help build the military of an
   increasingly belligerent adversary," Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a
   statement.

   Others on the list

   The department also said it was adding the world's biggest drone
   company, DJI, to the list, along with AGCU Scientech, China National
   Scientific Instruments & Materials, and Kuang-Chi Group, for allegedly
   enabling "wide-scale human rights abuses."

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