U.S. blacklists 7 extra Chinese supercomputing entities

(Reuters) — The U.S. Commerce Division said Thursday it used to be adding seven Chinese supercomputing entities to a U.S. financial blacklist for assisting Chinese navy efforts.

The Commerce Division said the seven were “eager with building supercomputers outmoded by China’s navy actors, its destabilizing navy modernization efforts, and/or weapons of mass destruction applications.”

The division is adding Tianjin Phytium Records Skills, Shanghai High-Performance Built-in Circuit Establish Center, Sunway Microelectronics, the National Supercomputing Center Jinan, the National Supercomputing Center Shenzhen, the National Supercomputing Center Wuxi, and the National Supercomputing Center Zhengzhou to its blacklist.

China’s international ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Beijing will expend “wanted measures” to guard its companies’ rights and pursuits.

“U.S. containment and suppression can no longer retain attend the march of China’s scientific and technological style,” he said at a day-to-day news convention in Beijing on Friday.

Companies or others named on the U.S. Entity Listing are required to practice for licenses from the Commerce Division and face difficult scrutiny after they learn permission to assemble items from U.S. suppliers.

“Supercomputing capabilities are a have to obtain for the attain of many — in all likelihood nearly all — contemporary weapons and nationwide safety programs, equivalent to nuclear weapons and hypersonic weapons,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said in an announcement.

The contemporary suggestions expend enact straight away but produce no longer practice to goods from U.S. suppliers already en route.

At some level of the administration of passe U.S. President Donald Trump, the U.S. added dozens of Chinese companies to its financial blacklist, along with the nation’s high smartphone maker Huawei; high chipmaker SMIC, and the ideal drone producer, SZ DJI.