{"id":591173,"date":"2026-04-24T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=591173"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:25:00","slug":"china-blacklists-eu-defense-aerospace-firms-over-taiwan-dealings-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=591173","title":{"rendered":"China Blacklists EU Defense, Aerospace Firms Over Taiwan Dealings"},"content":{"rendered":"

China Blacklists EU Defense, Aerospace Firms Over Taiwan Dealings<\/span><\/p>\n

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China has newly placed a slew of EU defense and aerospace firms on a control list, or effectively a new blacklist, reportedly with an eye on Taiwan tensions. It has\u00a0barred its exporters from supplying dual-use items to seven EU firms<\/strong>, including FN Herstal and Omnipol a.s., according to a statement from the Chinese commerce ministry.<\/p>\n

The ministry said the measure targets European defense companies that previously sold arms to Taiwan or maintained links with it<\/strong>, and stated the restrictions will not affect normal economic and trade exchanges with the European Union.<\/p>\n

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Beijing said it will continue working with other countries to safeguard peace and maintain a stable global supply chain, in its usual boilerplate rhetoric directed at the West regarding Taiwan, which China sees as its own.<\/p>\n

Other firms named include Hensoldt AG, Excalibur Army, SpaceKnow Inc., VZLU Aerospace, and FN Browning. The companies are mostly based in Czech Republic, Belgium, and Germany.<\/p>\n

“The MOFCOM spokesperson emphasized that the legally mandated export control measures target only a small number of EU entities involved in military affairs, entities that have participated in arms sales to Taiwan island or colluded with Taiwan authorities, and the measures only target dual-use items,” state-run Global Times<\/em> described further, in reference to\u00a0China’s Ministry of Commerce.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“They will not affect normal trade and economic exchanges between China and the EU, and law-abiding EU entities have absolutely nothing to worry about<\/strong>,” it added, citing the Commerce spokesperson.<\/p>\n

All the while, Beijing has kept up its fiery denunciations, making clear there’s\u00a0“no space” for ambiguity<\/strong>\u00a0on what China sees as its territory (Taiwan).<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Chinese leader\u00a0Xi Jinping\u00a0had welcomed the leader of Taiwan\u2019s main opposition party for a rare direct meeting in the Chinese capital.<\/p>\n

The symbolism of the timing couldn’t be missed,\u00a0as Xi invited Nationalist Party Chairwoman\u00a0Cheng Li-wun\u00a0to China ahead of the planned big mid-May summit with President\u00a0Trump<\/strong>\u00a0in which the Chinese leader could continue a push to dilute Washington’s support for Taiwan.<\/p>\n

However, the Trump-Xi meeting is still anything but assured as moving forward<\/strong>, given the ongoing Iran war and very uneasy ceasefire with little evidence of an offramp in sight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Also, Washington has suddenly this week charged Beijing with\u00a0stealing US artificial \u200bintelligence labs’ intellectual property on an “industrial scale”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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China’s Foreign Ministry on Taiwan:<\/p>\n

There is but one China in the world. Taiwan is an inalienable part of China\u2019s territory.<\/p>\n

No one can stop the eventual reunification of China.<\/p>\n

Reunification is presented as a matter of inevitability, not possibility.<\/p>\n

Separatist attempts\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/e0Xdz4bRyh<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Open Source Intel (@Osint613) April 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The formal memo could upend the May summit before it even gets off the ground<\/a>: “The US government has information indicating that foreign entities, principally based in China, are engaged in deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distil \u200bUS frontier AI systems,” Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science \u200band Technology Policy, wrote in a memo shared on social media on \u2060Thursday, per Reuters and FT.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 04\/24\/2026 – 09:25<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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