Chinese and U.S. flags flutter outside a business structure in Shanghai, China November 16, 2021.
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WASHINGTON– The Biden administration stated Thursday it enforced trade limitations on more than 30 Chinese research study institutes and entities over human rights offenses and the supposed advancement of innovations, such as brain-control weapons, that weaken U.S. nationwide security.
The Commerce Department implicated China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences and 11 of its research study institutes of utilizing biotechnology “to support Chinese military end uses and end users, to include purported brain-control weaponry,” according to a notification in the Federal Register.
The notification does not elaborate even more on the declared brain-control weapons.
“The scientific pursuit of biotechnology and medical innovation can save lives. Unfortunately, the PRC is choosing to use these technologies to pursue control over its people and its repression of members of ethnic and religious minority groups,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo composed in a declaration describing the People’s Republic of China and human rights abuses in China’s far-west area of Xinjiang.
The State Department has actually formerly explained the abuse of Uyghurs and members of other Muslim minorities as in the Xinjiang area as “widespread, state-sponsored forced labor” and “mass detention.”
Earlier this month, the White House revealed a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, mentioning “ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses.”
Beijing rejects that it has actually abused spiritual and ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.
The Commerce Department noted 4 extra Chinese corporations to its Entity List for their function in improving China’s military, which runs contrary to U.S. nationwide security and diplomacy interests.
The department likewise included 5 other Chinese business for supposedly “acquiring or attempting to acquire technology from the United States to help modernize the People’s Liberation Army.”
U.S. authorities have long grumbled that Chinese copyright theft has actually cost the economy billions of dollars in profits and countless tasks. They have likewise stated that it threatens nationwide security. Meanwhile, Beijing preserves that it does not participate in copyright theft.
Later Thursday, the Treasury Department revealed sanctions on 8 Chinese tech entities for “biometric surveillance and tracking of ethnic and religious minorities in China, particularly the predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority in Xinjiang.”
The entities pointed out by Treasury are: Cloudwalk Technology, Dawning Information Industry, Leon Technology Company, Megvii Technology, Netposa Technologies, SZ DJI Technology, Xiamen Meiya Pico Information and Yitu.
The Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., did not right away react to CNBC’s ask for remark.
The Commerce Department likewise did something about it versus entities found in Georgia, Malaysia and Turkey for supposedly “diverting or attempting to divert U.S. items to Iran’s military programs.”
“Specifically, these entities are a part of a network used to supply or attempt to supply Iran with U.S-origin items that would ultimately provide material support to Iran’s defense industries, in violation of U.S. export controls,” the notification stated.
In overall, the Commerce Department did something about it versus 34 entities in China, 3 in Georgia, one in Malaysia and 2 in Turkey.
