Us commercial ministry puts chinese supercomputer entities on blacklist
The bureau of industry and security (up) of the US department of commerce has a total of seven chinese supercomputing companies and centers on a blacklist, the "entity list", set with whom US companies do not want to maintain any business relationships anymore. The chinese units are to be involved in the construction of supercomputers for military use, among other things, for the development of weapons of mass destruction.
Supercomputer for the gun development
Specifically, the chinese companies tianjin phytium information technology, shanghai high performance integrated circuit design center, sunway microelectronics and the national chinese supercomputing center jinan, shenzhen, wuxi and zhengzhou. The supercomputers developed and built with their help should be used according to the US commercial ministry for military purposes, including modernization military weapons systems "and / or to support weapons of mass destruction", how it is in a message of the up to thursday.
The supercomputing units should also serve technology developed and produced by US companies. The US commerce is a threat to the US national security interests. US companies therefore can not sell any parts and components to the chinese companies and centers.
Supercomputing is indispensable for the development of many, perhaps almost all modern weapons and national security systems such as nuclear and hypershalate weapons, says US commercial minister gina M. Raimondo. The ministry of commerce will therefore take advantage of all its opportunities to prevent china US technology from using the modernization of military weapons systems.
Blacklist
On the "entity list" individuals, organizations and businesses are placed on the US commercial ministry, which were involved in activities or are a significant risk for national security or the US-political interests of the USA. US companies can only engage with these companies when a license of the ministry of commerce is available for this.
In the past, several chinese companies are already on the "entity list" landed – including the mobile communications group huawei, the chip manufacturer SMIC and the drone manufacturer DJI. The restrictions are fundamentally found that these and a variety of other companies were violated the US national security interests. In the US prassidence of donald trump, the black list of the US commerce in trading war has also proved to be an instrument as an instrument to expand economic prere on china.
