US adds 36 Chinese entities to naughty list, drops 25 after checking it twice

The United States Department of Commerce has added 36 Chinese companies or subsidiaries to its list of companies that cannot import certain US technologies without a license, citing national security, foreign policy interests, and the possibility that some might help already banned companies to evade restrictions. "Today we …

[Anonymous Coward]

Alternative view

Is this then also a list of companies with products that are guaranteed not to have been infected with US intercept facilities?

Asking for a friend.

[Anonymous Coward]

@AC - Re: Alternative view

You might be onto something here.

What bothers more the US is not that the Chinese are spying, it is the fact that the Chinese have proof that US is spying everybody else, including their closest allies. And that, my friends, is embarrassing.

[Anonymous Coward]

This is ridiculous

Why not ban entire China in one strike and finish this nonsense. This will also take care of selling them Kleenex that end up being used by Chinese military.

[TheInstigator]

I'm guessing ...

... the 25 that were dropped were found to be take-aways ;) At this rate, the US will be banning any Chinese company that does anything remotely technical.

At some point I'm guessing people are going to wake up to the fact that this is less to do with national security and more to do with ensuring that China does not dominate the world's economy/overtake that of the US and thus potentially herald the end of the Western hegemony.

Which is fine I guess - but I'm wondering at what point China is going to get tired of turning the other cheek metaphorically speaking and start implementing their own measures in the name of national security etc to the same extent as the West is doing.

I mean - what's good for the goose is good for the gander right?

[Robert Helpmann??]

Re: I'm guessing ...

I'm wondering at what point China is going to ... start implementing their own measures in the name of national security etc to the same extent as the West is doing.

You say that as if that wasn't what they and other countries have already done. Likewise, you imply that economic and military security are completely different and separate things when they clearly are intertwined. From the West's point of view, not just that of the the US, engagement has failed. Welcome to the New Cold War. It's better than a New Clear War, but it's still not a pleasant place to be.