China started the year with a broadside against U.S. defense contractors, responding to recently ramped-up Taiwan arms sales by the Biden administration and laying down a fresh warning to President-elect Donald Trump of tools Beijing can use to protect national interests.
Beijing’s Ministry of Commerce on Thursday blacklisted 10 companies as “unreliable entities” barred from doing business in China and said it would block an additional 28 from buying unspecified components that could have dual civilian and military uses.
