The companies and research institutes are accused of supporting the modernization of the Chinese military.
The United States is sanctioning 11 Chinese entities over their support of the Chinese military, the Commerce Department said on Friday.
From Jan. 6, the companies and research labs will be added to the department’s entity list for acquiring and trying to acquire U.S.-origin items in support of China’s military modernization, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) said in an update.
One Burmese entity and a Pakistani entity are also being added.
The companies on the Commerce Department’s Entity List are subject to specific licensing requirements for the export, reexport, and in-country transfer of specified items, and the license applications are likely to be denied.
Of the 11 Chinese entities added to the list, Chengdu RML Technology Co., Ltd. has supplied precision-guided missiles and satellite communication systems to the Chinese military, the BIS said.
Chengdu Yaguang Electronics Co., Ltd. and its parent company, Yaguang Technology Group Co., Ltd., are accused of supplying dual-use electronic components to the Chinese military and other Chinese entities that have been placed on the U.S. entity list.
A fourth company, Hefei Starwave Communication Technology Co., Ltd., has supplied radio frequency and microwave products “explicitly for military equipment application” to the Chinese military and other sanctioned Chinese parties, the BIS said.
Seven Chinese entities are being added because they “have demonstrable ties to activities of concern, including hypersonic weapons development, design and modeling of vehicles in hypersonic flight, using proprietary software to model weapons design and damage; and otherwise supporting China’s military-civil fusion efforts,” the BIS said.
They are the Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics, and Physics; Ji Hua Laboratory; Nanjing Simite Optical Instruments Co., Ltd.; Peng Cheng Laboratory; Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics; Suzhou Ultranano Precision Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.; and Wuhu Kewei Zhaofu Electronics Co., Ltd.
In 2020, the U.S. Department of State warned about the Chinese Communist Party’s strategy of Military-Civil Fusion, which eliminates “barriers between China’s civilian research and commercial sectors, and its military and defense industrial sectors.”
