The Washington Post | Pentagon to blacklist China’s largest EV battery and tech firms

By Ellen Nakashima and Cate Cadell | THE WASHINGTON POST |

The Pentagon will blacklist China’s largest EV battery manufacturer and its largest tech firm beginning in June 2026, barring them from Defense Department contracts and sending a powerful signal to American firms about the potential risks of doing business with them. …It probably will also alert U.S. and other companies that sell or provide services to the Defense Department that these firms are deemed to support the Chinese defense-industrial base, which has reputational risk implications, said Ann Kowalewski, a former aide on the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs committees who is now a senior fellow at the Project 2049 Institute…

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