China opposes U.S. move to list top firms as military companies

China said Saturday it firmly opposed the U.S. adding respective salient Chinese businesses to its database of subject companies, and that the determination ignored the statement reached during U.S. President Donald Trump's acme with Chinese person Xi Jinping past month.

The Pentagon connected Monday (June 8, 2026) added respective non-state-owned Chinese companies, including electrical conveyance shaper BYD, tech giants Alibaba and Baidu to its database that seeks to place Chinese companies it deems to person ties to the Chinese military, preventing them from landing U.S. defence contracts.

By adding these firms to the list, “the U.S. broadside has ignored the statement reached during the gathering betwixt the heads of authorities of the 2 countries successful Beijing,” a Chinese Ministry of Commerce spokesperson said Saturday June 13, 2026) successful a statement.

The U.S. has “disregarded the wide interests of bilateral economical and commercialized relations, continuously generalized the conception of nationalist security, and abused authorities powerfulness to unjustifiably suppress Chinese enterprises,” the spokesperson added.

BYD, Alibaba and Baidu said earlier there’s nary ground to see them successful the list.

Mr. Trump successful mid-May visited Beijing successful a much-anticipated acme with Mr. Xi. The 2 leaders agreed to boost economical ties betwixt the countries, including China's acquisition of much U.S. cultivation products and Boeing jets, and the mounting up abstracted boards of commercialized and investment.