On Friday, the US added 32 entities, 23 of them in China, to a commerce division restricted commerce checklist. They included two Chinese language companies accused of buying US chipmaking gear for China’s prime chipmaker SMIC.
The upcoming US-China talks in Spain would be the fourth main in-person assembly this 12 months as the 2 international locations search to keep up a commerce truce that diminished retaliatory tariffs on either side and restored the circulation of Chinese language uncommon earth minerals to the US.
After conferences in Geneva and London, the 2 sides largely agreed in late July in Stockholm to increase a tariff pause for an additional 90 days. President Donald Trump accepted the extension on Aug 12 till Nov 10.
ByteDance’s quick video app TikTok, which faces a possible ban within the US until it strikes to US possession, will probably be on the agenda within the talks in Spain.
Trump has prolonged a deadline for TikTok to divest its US property till Sep 17. US lawmakers have stated TikTok’s US consumer knowledge may fall into the arms of China’s authorities.
“The Chinese language authorities attaches nice significance to knowledge privateness and safety and has by no means and can by no means require corporations or people to gather or present knowledge situated in international international locations for the Chinese language authorities in violation of native legal guidelines,” China’s official Individuals’s Each day stated in an article on Saturday.
If the US insists on undermining the authentic pursuits of Chinese language corporations, China will take crucial measures to safeguard nationwide pursuits and the rights of Chinese language corporations, the Chinese language newspaper wrote.