Trump admin blacklists eight Chinese tech companies, including video surveillance camera giants, implicated in human rights violations against Muslim minorities
- Move comes as U.S.-China high-level trade talks set to resume — Action targets Chinese surveillance companies, public entities
Bloomberg
Context & Ripple Effects
This blacklist converts what Washington had been weighing since spring into action: Bloomberg reported in May that the US was considering cutting Hikvision and Dahua off from American technology, and the Commerce action now makes it official, timed deliberately against the resumption of high-level trade talks. The targets are the hardware layer of China's surveillance state — camera giants and public entities — rather than consumer apps.
Hikvision, Dahua and the other named companies lose access to US-origin components and software, hitting the American chip and parts suppliers embedded in their camera supply chains immediately.
Second-order effects
The companies accelerate substitution toward domestic Chinese suppliers, and foreign governments buying surveillance hardware face pressure to treat US-blacklisted vendors as a compliance risk in their own procurements.
Third-order effects
If the pattern holds — and the Biden-era investment bans suggest it does — export controls become a durable human-rights instrument, structurally decoupling the surveillance-hardware supply chain along US-China lines regardless of where trade talks land.
The trend: US export controls are hardening from trade-negotiation leverage into a standing, bipartisan instrument for penalizing China's surveillance-technology sector on human-rights grounds.
US bars 28 Chinese organizations from purchasing US goods because they are implicated in China's surveillance and detention of Uighur and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang. Those barred include Hikvision, Dahua Technology and Megvii Technology. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://…
Trump admin blacklists 8 Chinese tech companies, implicating them in human rights violations against Muslim minorities in China's Xinjiang province. By @SDonnan & @Jendeben (NB: Liu He scheduled to come to Washington for trade talks on Oct 10-11) https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Big slap in China's face before trade talks: US has put 28 Chinese cos. on sanctioned entities list. US cos. need permission to sell to them now. The Chinese cos. include big tech ones like Hikvision and Dahua. Involved in systematic repression of Muslims. https://www.nytimes.com…
This is something we need to memorize. After so many years of suffering under the Orwell's ruling by CCP. Alibaba & some shld be on the list. It's time to terminate the tyranny & totalitarian regime have been devastating that beautiful land for 70 years. https://www.nytimes.com/.…
The US has finally hit out at China tech companies over their role in “human rights violations and abuses” in Xinjiang. 8 companies were cut off from US components. The list also includes local police in Xinjiang, who are buyers of US tech as well. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Wow. This is a massive blow to major Chinese tech companies that Beijing once hoped would be global surveillance exporters. When I was at FT, I looked at just how dependent video companies like Hikvision and Dahua were. The answer: very https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com…
U.S. Blacklists 28 Chinese Entities Over Abuses in Xinjiang The list also includes AI, voice recognition & data companies that have helped construct what amounts to a police state in Xinjiang. Includes ML startups Megvii, SenseTime and Yitu. @AnaSwanson https://www.nytimes.com/..…
This action against 8 Chinese tech companies is the real tone setter for this week's trade talks, not US domestic politics: https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @technology
The Trump administration blacklisted 8 Chinese technology companies, accusing them of being implicated in human rights violations https://www.bloomberg.com/...