On June 17 at a regular briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian was asked about reports the US Commerce Department had deferred adding several Chinese firms to its export-control entity list. Lin said China opposes broadening the national-security concept and the abuse of entity lists and other export-control tools to suppress Chinese companies, and urged the US to stop politicizing, instrumentalizing and weaponizing economic, trade and technology issues.

2026-06-17

On June 17 at a regular briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian was asked about reports the US Commerce Department had deferred adding several Chinese firms to its export-control entity list. Lin said China opposes broadening the national-security concept and the abuse of entity lists and other export-control tools to suppress Chinese companies, and urged the US to stop politicizing, instrumentalizing and weaponizing economic, trade and technology issues.