Chinese state media calls new tech export controls a shield ‘against certain countries’

Party mouthpiece says the measure is a ‘firewall’ to protect country’s efforts to be an innovative economy and develop advanced technologies

Analysts say it is just the latest retaliation in China’s tussle with the US, and it will further affect global supply chain

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China and the United States are locked in a protracted dispute over trade and technology. Photo: AP

Published: 8:53pm, 9 Jun 2019Updated: 9:16am, 10 Jun 2019

Chinese state media on Sunday said Beijing’s new tech export controls were aimed at deterring “certain countries” from using the nation’s technologies to suppress its development.

The new “national technological security management list” was announced on Saturday, just over a week after Beijing said it would blacklist “unreliable” foreign entities deemed to have damaged the interests of Chinese firms.

Analysts said the new measure was just the latest retaliation from China as it faced off against the United States on trade and technology, and would have a further impact on the global supply chain.

It comes after the US Commerce Department last month put Chinese firm Huawei Technologies and 70 affiliates on an “entity list” over national security concerns, after Washington sought to restrict the company’s technology from entering the US market and from its allies’ critical 5G networks.

Announcing the new measure, the National Development and Reform Commission said it had set up the mechanism to “more effectively forestall and defuse national security risks”.

The country’s top planning agency said further details would be released “in the near future”.

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