2019 Taipei International Photographic Equipment and Image Application Exhibition, Falcon Technology (DJI Innovation Agency) booth. (Image source: Solomon203/CC BY-SA 4.0)
[Look at China December 15, 2021](Look at Chinese journalist Cheng Rong Compilation/Comprehensive) As Washington sees Beijing as the biggest threat,BidenThe government will include the world’s largest commercial drone manufacturerDJI InnovationIncluding eight Chinese companies included in the investmentblacklist, Because they are accused of participating in surveillance of Uighur Muslims.
According to information disclosed to the Financial Times by two people familiar with the matter, the U.S. Treasury Department will put DJI and other companies on the blacklist of the “Chinese Military Enterprise” (CMIC) on Thursday (December 16). American investors are prohibited from holding financial shares in 60 Chinese companies that have been blacklisted.
This measure marks the latest effort by U.S. President Biden to punish Beijing’s crackdown on Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the northwestern Xinjiang region.
Last week, facial recognition software company SenseTime delayed its IPO plan in Hong Kong because the Financial Times reported that the United States would blacklist the company.
Other Chinese companies that will be sanctioned on the 16th include Megvii, a major competitor of SenseTime, which suspended its listing in Hong Kong after being included in another blacklist in the United States last year, and Sugon Dawning Information Industry, which is a supercomputer manufacturer operating cloud computing services in Xinjiang.
Face recognition software company CloudWalk Technology, cyber security group Xiamen Meiya Pico, which cooperates with law enforcement agencies, artificial intelligence company Yitu Technology, cloud computing company Leon Technology, and cloud-based surveillance system manufacturer Dongfang Net Liye Will be included in the blacklist of Chinese military industry enterprises.
DJI Innovation and Megvii Technology are not publicly traded, but Sugon Information (also known as Zhongke Suguang) is listed in Shanghai, and Leon Technology, Dongfang Netpower and Meiya Biotech are listed and traded in Shenzhen.
These eight companies are already on the “Entity List” of the US Department of Commerce, which restricts American companies from exporting technologies or products from the United States to Chinese companies without government permission.
The White House did not comment, and the U.S. Treasury Department did not respond to a request for comment.
DJI declined to comment. But last year, it stated that after being included on the export blacklist of the Department of Commerce at the end of the former President Trump’s term, it “did not do anything to prove that it should be included in the list of entities.”
According to people familiar with this pending action, the Ministry of Commerce is expected to add more than 20 Chinese companies to the entity list on the 16th, including some companies involved in biotechnology. The Ministry of Commerce did not respond to a request for comment.
When the sanctions took place, the United States maintained a strong stance on China’s policies in Xinjiang, where more than 1 million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities were held in detention camps. The White House announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics last week.
On the 16th, the Biden administration will also consider tightening regulations on US companies selling technology to China’s largest chip manufacturer SMIC. The Trump administration included SMIC on the list of entities a year ago, but the decision included a clause that critics believed caused a loophole that some companies exploited.
Eric Sayers, the head of Indo-Pacific operations at the consulting firm Beacon Global Strategies, said that after reviewing many of his predecessor’s technology policies, Biden is entering the implementation phase.
Sayers said: “Whether these targeted but important steps are just the beginning of a more proactive approach promoted by the White House, or the minimum effort that the inter-agency can do so far, it will be interesting to observe these. If it is the former , We may see further restrictions on SMIC and new foreign investment restrictions in the coming months.”
Another example of the escalation of the confrontation between Washington and the Chinese government on the Xinjiang issue is that the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill on the 14th to prohibit the import of goods from Xinjiang unless the company can prove that these goods are not produced by forced labor.
Earlier, the House of Representatives and the Senate reached an agreement on a compromise draft of the bill, creating conditions for senators to vote in the upper house of Congress before the year-end holiday adjourns.
The White House welcomes the agreement reached on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.
Sophie Richardson, the China director of Human Rights Watch, called on Biden to sign the bill “immediately” after Congress passes the bill.
Richardson said: “Even in the face of crimes against humanity, Beijing and companies have long hoped that the world will put profits above human rights. Congress has correctly transferred the burden of proof to Xinjiang authorities and companies.”
Jewher Ilham is an activist whose father Ilham Tohti is a Uyghur rights advocate who was sentenced to life by the CCP for widely criticized separatist accusations Imprisonment, he said, that Congress reached an agreement to make the company “responsible for its collusion in the world‘s worst forced labor system”, which is “very good.”
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