China urges US to treat Chinese companies fairly, halt blacklist

China has urged the United States to immediately stop its erroneous practices and revoke the relevant measures, after the Pentagon updated its so-called list of companies allegedly linked to the Chinese military earlier this week, adding a number of Chinese companies to the roster, the Ministry of Commerce said on Saturday.

China called on the US to return to the right track of building bilateral constructive strategic stability and provide Chinese companies with fair, just and non-discriminatory treatment, a ministry spokesperson said in a statement, warning that otherwise China would take resolute and forceful countermeasures, and all consequences arising therefrom would be borne entirely by the US side.

The commerce official said that the US side, in disregarding the overall interests of China-US economic and trade relations, has continuously overstretched the concept of national security and abused state power to suppress Chinese businesses without justification.

Such actions, the spokesperson said, have seriously disrupted the international economic and trade order, severely undermined the stability of global industrial and supply chains, and gravely harmed the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies.