"US adds two dozen Chinese groups to trade blacklist", 3 March 2023

The commerce department placed the groups on its “entity list”, which in effect prohibits US companies from supplying them with technology produced in America. Some of the companies were blacklisted for providing technology to an Iranian entity previously targeted by US sanctions...

...The move is the Biden administration’s latest effort to punish Chinese groups that allegedly violated export control rules by providing or trying to provide technology that would assist the People’s Liberation Army in its rapid military modernisation.

The blacklistings are also a response to a range of other activities, including providing Pakistan with nuclear and missile technology and supplying Myanmar and other Chinese groups with surveillance technology that enables repression and human rights abuses...

Companies include BGI Research and BGI Tech (part of BGI Group), Loongson Technology, Suzhou Centec Communications, 4Paradigm Technology, Inspur Group, DMT Trading, Neotec Semiconductor, Galaxy Electronics and Arttronix International.