China hits US with sanctions, drone export curbs ahead of Xi visit
US President Donald Trump walks through Zhongnanhai Garden with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, China, on May 15.
The tit-for-tat sanctions come weeks ahead of an expected summit between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump in the US next month, as the world’s two largest economies struggle to maintain what they’ve called “constructive strategic stability” amid an intensifying tech rivalry.
Six of the companies were added to China’s so-called countermeasures list in retaliation for the US’s move last week banning imports from 43 Chinese companies over alleged human rights abuses of Uyghur and other minority groups, the ministry said.
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