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China threatens to create its own ‘Entity List’ to include American firms
July 30, 2025
According toGlobal Times, a Chinese news site, the country is planning to release an “Entity List” in response toU.S. President Donald Trump’s own listwhich caused Chinese companyHUAWEI to spiral into a nosedive.
Gao Feng, a spokesman of China’s commerce ministry, had this to say on the matter (viaTechCrunch):
While the spokesman doesn’t specifically call out the United States or any U.S.-based companies, it’s extremely likely that U.S.-based firms would be on this list, should it come to fruition.
China declined to elaborate on what limitations it would place onto firms that appear on this list.
This contradicts anearlier assertion from HUAWEI’s founderthat China should not respond to the U.S. Entity List with a similar program. In fact, he specifically named United States company Apple as being his “teacher,” and that he would oppose any bans China might institute against it.
However, HUAWEI and China are not the same things. It’s possible China could institute an Entity List to offer further proof that the country’s government acts independently of HUAWEI since it is assumed by many Western governments that HUAWEI and China are practically one and the same. It is extremely likely that a second Entity List would hurt HUAWEI even more.
Trump’s Entity List caused HUAWEI to lose contracts with major firms, includingGoogle,Arm,Qualcomm, Microsoft, and more. It also temporarily lost its membership to several high-profile coalitions, includingthe Wi-Fi Alliance. However, many of those memberships were reinstated days later.
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