U.S. Blacklists China’s Hikvision, 7 More Over Human Rights

U.S. Blacklists China’s Hikvision, 7 More Over Human Rights

Updated on 2019年10月8日 10:55 JST

  1. Move comes as U.S.-China high-level trade talks set to resume
  2. Action targets Chinese surveillance companies, public entities

The Trump administration placed eight Chinese technology giants on a U.S. blacklist on Monday, accusing them of being implicated in human rights violations against Muslim minorities in the country’s far-western region of Xinjiang.

The companies include two video surveillance companies

Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co.

and

Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co.

that by some accounts control

as much as a third of the global market for video surveillance and have cameras all over the world.

Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-07/u-s-blacklists-eight-chinese-companies-including-hikvision-k1gvpq77

U.S. Blacklists 28 Chinese Entities Over Abuses in Xinjiang

Oct. 7, 2019

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Monday that it had added 28 Chinese organizations to a United States blacklist over concerns about their role in human rights violations, effectively blocking those entities from buying American products.

The organizations

have been implicated in China’s campaign targeting Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities in the autonomous region of Xinjiang,

according to a Commerce Department filing.The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/us/politics/us-to-blacklist-28-chinese-entities-over-abuses-in-xinjiang.html

SUMMARY:

This final rule amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by adding twenty-eight entities to the Entity List.

These twenty-eight entities have been determined by the U.S. Government to be acting contrary to the foreign policy interests of the United States

and will be listed on the Entity List under the destination of the People’s Republic of China (China).

https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2019-22210.pdf