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Nine US lawmakers person sent a missive to US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth seeking a ‘ban’ connected 17 Chinese companies. In the letter, the lawmakers urged Pentagon (now Department of War) to adhd these companies to its 1260H database implicit alleged links to the Chinese military.
List of companies that the missive includes are Chinese AI steadfast DeepSeek; smartphone shaper Xiaomi, spot companies Hua Hong Semiconductor, Kingsemi and Shennan Circuit; show and imaging companies BOE Technology Group and Tianma Microelectronics; sensing, surveillance and robotics firms CloudMinds, LeiShen, Livox, RoboSense, Tiandy Technologies, Unitree Robotics and others.In the letter, the lawmakers said that the firms “represent the adjacent logical tranche of military-civil fusion contributors whose designation nether Section 1260H would straight enactment Congress’s intent that US payer funds not underwrite PRC military-industrial and internal-security oregon quality capabilities”. The missive is signed by: John Moolenaar, Chairman, Select Committee connected China; Rick Scott, Chairman, Senate Special Committee connected Aging; Eric A. “Rick” Crawford, Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee connected Intelligence; Andrew R. Garbarino, Chairman, Committee connected Homeland Security; Rob Wittman, Chairman, House Armed Services Committee, Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee; Bill Huizenga, Chairman, House Committee connected Foreign Affairs, South & Central Asia Subcommittee; Dusty Johnson, Chairman, Committee connected Agriculture, Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee; Darin LaHood, Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee connected Intelligence, Subcommittee connected NSA and Cyber; Andy Ogles, Chairman, Committee connected Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee.
What is Pentagon’s 1260H list
Pentagon’s 1260H database is simply a US Department of Defense roster of Chinese military-linked companies that are believed to enactment China’s defence oregon quality activities. It is required nether Section 1260H of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. Companies connected the database look accrued scrutiny, restrictions connected US authorities contracts, and imaginable sanctions. The database is utilized to pass US entities against doing concern with firms tied to China’s military–civil fusion strategy.
Letter signed by 9 US lawmakers seeking to prohibition DeepSeek, Xiaomi and different Chinese firms
The letter, dated December 18, 2025 reads:Dear Secretary Hegseth:We constitute to impulse you to grow the Department’s database of Chinese subject companies maintained pursuant to Section 1260H of the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act to see a acceptable of Chinese firms that enactment “military-civil fusion” (MCF) and beforehand People’s Liberation Army (PLA) capabilities crossed assorted sectors, including: biotechnology and beingness sciences; sensing, surveillance, and robotics; user astute devices; large-scale AI models; displays and imaging; semiconductors and manufacturing equipment; and powerfulness batteries and vigor storage.We applaud caller actions taken by the Department, including the summation of Tencent to the1260H database successful January 2025 arsenic good arsenic reports that an October 7 missive from Deputy Secretary ofWar Stephen Feinberg informed the Armed Services Committees that Alibaba, Baidu, and BYDshould beryllium added to the database of companies that assistance the PRC’s military.The firms listed beneath correspond military-civil fusion contributors cardinal to PLA modernization,internal-security operations, and power-projection capabilities. Their designation nether Section1260H would straight enactment Congress’ intent that U.S. payer funds not underwrite PRCmilitary-industrial and internal-security oregon quality capabilities.
