US adds seven Chinese entities to economic blacklist for assisting military

The US Commerce Department said Thursday it was adding seven Chinese supercomputing entities to a US economic blacklist for assisting the Chinese military.

The department is adding Tianjin Phytium Information Technology, Shanghai High-Performance Integrated Circuit Design Center, Sunway Microelectronics, the National Supercomputing
Center Jinan, the National Supercomputing Center Shenzhen, the National Supercomputing Center Wuxi, and the National Supercomputing Center Zhengzhou. The Commerce Department said the seven were “involved with building supercomputers used by China’s military actors.”

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