{"id":559851,"date":"2021-06-10T17:21:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T21:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=559851"},"modified":"2021-06-10T17:21:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T21:21:54","slug":"biden-removes-chinese-military-tech-company-from-blacklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-removes-chinese-military-tech-company-from-blacklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Removes Chinese Military Tech Company from Blacklist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-removes-chinese-military-tech-company-from-blacklist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=559851&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.068085106383\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Chinese tech company Sugon worked on nuclear weapons research, Uyghur surveillance<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/China-flag-2-e1598041910929-736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/China-flag-2-e1598041910929.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/China-flag-2-e1598041910929-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/China-flag-2-e1598041910929-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tThe Chinese flag \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 June 10, 2021 5:05 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"70.626360338573\">\n<p>President Joe Biden issued an executive order dropping a ban on investment in a Chinese technology company known for its cooperation with the Chinese military and the surveillance of Uyghur Muslims.<\/p>\n<p><span>Sugon, a Chinese company <a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/system\/files\/126\/13959.pdf\">blacklisted<\/a> by the Trump administration in November 2020, did not appear on the updated blacklist of Chinese companies announced by the White House this month. The United States had <\/span><span>prohibited<\/span><span> Americans from investing in Sugon over the company&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacenterdynamics.com\/en\/news\/us-department-defense-names-huawei-and-inspur-list-chinese-military-linked-companies\/\"><span>sale<\/span><\/a><span> of supercomputers to the Chinese military for nuclear weapons research. The company&#8217;s<\/span><span>\u00a0cloud computing and facial recognition technology has reportedly been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/22\/technology\/china-intel-nvidia-xinjiang.html\">used<\/a> for the surveillance of Uyghur Muslims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Michael Sobolik, a fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council who researches China issues, told the <\/span><i><span>Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/i><span> the Biden order was &#8220;strange&#8221; due to its omission of Sugon, though it otherwise makes steps in the right direction by extending sanctions on other Chinese tech giants such as Huawei and Hikvision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It&#8217;s strange that the Biden administration removed Sugon from the list,&#8221; Sobolik said. &#8220;This company&#8217;s resources have supported the CCP&#8217;s draconian surveillance in Xinjiang\u2014specifically, the Orwellian model of \u2018predictive policing.&#8217; Some members of Congress have also warned that Sugon has also been involved in the PLA&#8217;s nuclear and hypersonic glide vehicle testing programs. Sugon seems to check both boxes of the EO, which raises questions as to why it&#8217;s delisted. The administration may have a perfectly reasonable explanation; if so, officials should clarify their decision.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The decision comes amid intensified tech competition between the United States and China. On Tuesday, the Senate <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/us-senate-set-pass-sweeping-bill-address-china-tech-threat-2021-06-08\/\"><span>passed<\/span><\/a><span> a massive spending package intended to increase funding for American technological and scientific research, along with several other areas of competition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Some Biden administration allies have ties to Chinese technology firms. Biden&#8217;s nominee for the director of national intelligence&#8217;s general counsel position <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-intel-nominee-grilled-for-huawei-work\/\"><span>admitted<\/span><\/a><span> in May to doing work for Huawei while employed at one of the Chinese tech powerhouse\u2019s top Washington lobbying firms. A member of the administration&#8217;s trade transition team <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/biden-taps-former-chinese-tech-mogul-for-trade-transition\/\"><span>managed<\/span><\/a><span> a Chinese firm tasked with raising funds for Chinese companies listed as banned in the Biden administration&#8217;s executive order.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The White House did not respond to a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Chinese tech company Sugon worked on nuclear weapons research, Uyghur surveillance  The Chinese flag \/ Getty Images  Jack Beyrer \u2022 June 10, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2279936,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/China-flag-2-e1598041910929-736x514-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Removes Chinese Military Tech Company from Blacklist","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/China-flag-2-e1598041910929-736x514-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Removes Chinese Military Tech Company from Blacklist","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}