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Pentagon to blacklist China’s largest EV battery and tech firms

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The Pentagon will blacklist China ’s largest EV battery-maker and its largest tech firm beginning in June 2026 , barring them from Defense Department contracts.

The move sends a powerful signal to American firms about the potential risks of doing business with them.

The Pentagon blacklisting is among actions taken by Congress and the Biden and first Trump administrations, to curb China 's aggressive military and tech ambitions.

China ’s Commerce Ministry last week added 10 U.S. companies to its “unreliable entities list” The timing is probably coincidental, analyst says, as the department is required to issue the list annually , and did so last year at the same time.

A notable addition to the Pentagon list is the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Limited , or COMAC .

The list also added ChangXin Memory Technologies , China 's leading memory chip firm, and genomics giant BGI Genomic .

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