The Biden administration’s National Science Foundation (NSF) and State Department have granted over $4 million to programs combatting "misinformation."
The US is adding more than 30 Chinese companies to a trade blacklist that would prevent them from purchasing certain American components as part of the ongoing US-China technology conflict.
The U.S. Commerce Department has added a dozen Chinese companies to a trade blacklist, citing national security concerns and some of the firms’ involvement in aiding the Chinese military’s quantum computing efforts.
U.S. technology companies are still supplying China’s surveillance state with equipment and software for monitoring populations and censoring information, including in the Xinjiang region, despite damning revelations that have led to genocide accusations against Beijing, according to researchers.
The Commerce Department added 34 foreign entities to an export blacklist on Friday for "acting contrary to the foreign policy interests of the United States," including 23 companies allegedly tied to the Chinese military or implicated in the genocide against Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.
