The ordinance prohibits American companies and individuals from owning shares – or through mutual funds – directly in companies that the government believes should help improve the People’s Liberation Army.
The president stated in the ordinance that “the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is increasingly using the capital of the United States to raise resources and enable the development and modernization of its military, intelligence and other security apparatuses.”
This investment “continues to enable the PRC to continue to threaten the home country of the United States and the United States armed forces overseas directly, including through the development and use of weapons of mass destruction, advanced conventional weapons, and malicious cyber-capable actions against the United States States and their people. ”
The list of companies includes major government aerospace and construction companies, as well as technology and communications companies such as Inspur Group, Huawei, and China Telecommunications Corp.
The US claims that these companies enable China’s military development through access to advanced technology and expertise and, as a result, have in part led to Beijing’s aggressive global expansion.
A Biden transition officer did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the newly signed order. A spokesman for BlackRock, the world’s largest wealth manager, said the company is still reviewing the details of the deal.
The order comes after months of warnings from Trump’s national security and economic teams that more drastic measures could be taken to curb American exposure to companies that either support China’s military ambitions or fail to meet US disclosure and auditing standards.
National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow and National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien have spearheaded government calls for a crackdown on US investments in Chinese companies.
“The president’s action is to protect American investors from the inadvertent provision of capital that will be used to improve the capabilities of the People’s Liberation Army and the People’s Republic of China’s intelligence services,” O’Brien said in a statement Thursday.
Beijing’s intelligence services “routinely target American citizens and businesses through cyber operations and directly threaten critical infrastructure, economies and military in America and its allies and partners around the world,” he added.
In May, Trump and the U.S. Department of Labor ordered the board charged with overseeing billions of dollars to suspend plans to invest in Chinese companies.
Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia warned the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board at the time that its current plan to invest federal savings would “bring billions of dollars in retirement savings to risky businesses that pose a threat to US national security”.
The labor secretary, citing bipartisan calls to restrict US investment in Chinese stocks, wrote that the president opposes the board’s 2017 decision to allow its international fund to track an index based on stocks from China on national security and investor risk concerns.
Investing in funds, which include Chinese companies, would “place millions of federal employees in the untenable position of choosing not to invest in international stocks or saving billions of dollars in retirement savings in risky companies that pose a threat to national security of the USA “. Scalia wrote.
– – CNBC’s Christina Wilkie contributed to this report.
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