China adds 14 foreign entities, including tech consultancies, to ‘unreliable entity list’
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This restricts the organisations' ability to carry out commercial activities in the world's second-largest economy.
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BEIJING – China’s Commerce Ministry added 14 foreign organisations to its “unreliable entity list”, it said in a statement on Oct 9, restricting their ability to carry out commercial activities within the world’s second-largest economy.
Some of the companies, which are mostly based in the United States, had carried out military and technological cooperation with Taiwan, or “made malicious remarks about China, and assisted foreign governments in suppressing Chinese companies”, it said in a separate statement.
TechInsights, a prominent Canadian technology research firm, and nine of its subsidiaries including Strategy Analytics were among those blacklisted.
In October 2024, TechInsights took apart a Huawei artificial intelligence processor and found a chip made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in it.
The US had imposed export rules on the Shenzhen-based Huawei in 2020 to halt shipments of foreign-produced items to Huawei that are the direct product of US technology or software, including TSMC's chips.
TechInsights did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
The Halifax International Security Forum, an annual gathering of government and military officials in Canada, was also included in the list of sanctioned entities. REUTERS
