The U.S. Pentagon has recently updated its blacklist of "Chinese military-affiliated enterprises," dragging in a large number of China's top-tier technology companies.
This time, the list includes numerous industry giants across various sectors:
Internet giants: e-commerce giant Alibaba and search engine Baidu;
New energy vehicle manufacturers: BYD, the electric car maker;
Semiconductors and chips: domestic leading memory chip manufacturers CXMT (Longxin Memory Technologies) and YMTC (Yangtze Memory Technologies);
Frontier technologies: Yujie Robotics, specializing in robotics; RoboSense, focused on AI robotics technology; and Wuxi Pharmapacific (WuXi AppTec), a leader in biopharmaceuticals.
The Pentagon justified its inclusion by stating these companies operating in the United States “meet the criteria for designation as Chinese military-affiliated enterprises.” In plain terms, it means the U.S. believes these top-tier Chinese tech firms are too technologically advanced and crucial to China’s military and industrial capabilities, thus raising “security concerns.” This reflects the intense competition between China and the U.S. in technology and geopolitical spheres.
In fact, back in February this year, the Pentagon briefly released a similar list, but quickly withdrew it without explanation. At that time, neither CXMT nor YMTC appeared on the list—this move angered some hardliners in the U.S. regarding China. Therefore, this new list is essentially nearly identical to the one from February, with only one key difference: the addition of these two major chipmakers.
Just days before the U.S. added Yujie Robotics to the blacklist (on June 1st), NVIDIA, the U.S. AI chip giant, had announced plans to collaborate with Yujie Robotics to jointly develop robots for researchers. The timing of this blacklist release makes the situation particularly dramatic.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1867508079672320/
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