{"id":724268,"date":"2026-06-09T02:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/724268\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T02:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:28:08","slug":"us-adds-alibaba-byd-and-other-chinese-tech-champions-to-military-company-blacklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/724268\/","title":{"rendered":"US adds Alibaba, BYD and other Chinese tech champions to military company blacklist"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pentagon<\/a> signalled on Monday that it was adding Alibaba, BYD, Baidu and dozens of other Chinese companies to its list of entities it says are linked to China\u2019s military, widening a blacklist that increasingly targets sectors at the heart of US-China technological competition<\/a>.In a Federal Register notice scheduled for publication on Wednesday, the US Department of Defence<\/a> designated a broad range of Chinese firms as \u201cChinese military companies\u201d under Section 1260H of the National Defence Authorisation Act.<\/p>\n

These include electric vehicle makers, artificial intelligence companies, battery manufacturers, biotech firms and solar suppliers. The designation can complicate companies\u2019 access to US capital markets and government business, although it does not automatically trigger sanctions.<\/p>\n

Among the most prominent additions were e-commerce giant Alibaba<\/a>, search and AI company Baidu<\/a>, electric vehicle manufacturers BYD<\/a> and Nio<\/a>, pharmaceutical research and manufacturing company WuXi AppTec, robot maker Unitree, networking equipment maker TP-Link and solar companies JA Solar and Trina Solar. The list also included battery makers CALB and EVE Energy, lidar firms Hesai and RoboSense, and display-panel manufacturer BOE Technology Group.<\/p>\n

Alibaba is the owner of the South China Morning Post. The company did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

How Chinese companies have pulled ahead of Tesla in the electric vehicle race<\/p>\n

The Pentagon said the companies met statutory criteria for designation based on factors including alleged affiliations with Chinese state entities, military-civil fusion programmes, the People\u2019s Liberation Army or government industrial initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pentagon signalled on Monday that it was adding Alibaba, BYD, Baidu and dozens of other Chinese companies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30190,32733,45,91194,49,48,95,261559,261556,261551,261557,110668,261552,261554,261555,156649,261558,261553],"class_list":["post-724268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-alibaba","tag-baidu","tag-business","tag-byd","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-china-international-information-services","tag-china-national-chemical-engineering","tag-china-traffic-construction-usa","tag-chinese-military-companies","tag-cnooc","tag-cosco-shipping-finance","tag-costar-group","tag-defence-department","tag-federal-register","tag-glarun-technology","tag-hesai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}