BERLIN—The United States is poised to remove five extremist groups, all believed to be defunct, from its list of foreign terrorist organizations, including several that once posed significant threats, killing hundreds if not thousands of people across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Although the groups are inactive, the decision is politically sensitive for the…

Alibaba reportedly encroached on the human rights of China’s Muslim population by financially supporting U.S.-blacklisted artificial intelligence companies to track the ethnic minority. The e-commerce giant and its affiliated companies currently control nearly 30 percent of Chinese technology company Megvii and 7 percent of SenseTime, ESPN reported on April 14, citing recent financial documents. Known for…

A Chinese student at Purdue University was harassed by pro-CCP students. But the university is fighting back against Chinese Communist Party influence. This is raising an alert to campuses across the country to look at their own potential problems of infiltration from Beijing. The United States added 34 Chinese firms to a blacklist over human…

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. The list on Nov. 24 covers 27 new entities from four countries, including China, Japan, Pakistan, and Singapore, with several China and Pakistan-based…

WASHINGTON—Republican U.S. senators led by Marco Rubio on Thursday called on the Biden administration to blacklist Honor, a former unit of embattled Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, describing the firm as a threat to national security. In a letter dated Thursday, seen by Reuters, Rubio described Honor as essentially an “arm” of the Chinese government with…

The Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism has issued a blacklist of karaoke songs it deems to be subversive or endangering national unity. This latest move is consistent with the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to curb freedom of speech and expression by extending its suppression into various forms of entertainment. I try to guess what…

Tsinghua Unigroup, a Chinese state-backed chip maker, said it received court notice that one of its creditors had initiated bankruptcy proceedings for the group, dated July 12. Tsinghua Unigroup is a commercial arm of China’s Tsinghua University and an integral part of Chinese Leader Xi Jinping’s semiconductor self-reliance dream. One of its creditors had requested…

The United States is gearing up to uproot “red assets,” said an analyst after Washington moved to ban Americans from investing in dozens of Chinese military firms. Two days earlier, President Joe Biden signed an executive order blacklisting 59 Chinese defense and surveillance technology firms. The ban expands on a Trump-era order, which covered a…

WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden signed an executive order on June 3, amending a Trump-era ban that prohibited American investors from investing in Chinese military companies. The new order expands the previous prohibition list by adding more Chinese defense and surveillance technology companies. The order also moves the authority of selecting targeted companies to the Treasury Department…

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Defense Department will remove China’s Xiaomi from a government blacklist, a court filing showed, marking a reversal by the Biden administration of one of former President Donald Trump’s last actions aimed at Beijing before exiting office. The court filing said the company and the U.S. government would agree to resolve their ongoing litigation,…