BEIJING \u2014 China added 20 Japanese entities on Monday to its export control list for dual-use items, preventing Chinese firms from selling to them without prior approval, citing Tokyo\u2019s ambitions for \u201cremilitarization.\u201d<\/p>\n
The action, Beijing\u2019s latest in a series of export curbs targeted at Tokyo, was aimed at limiting Japan\u2019s \u201cnew type of militarism\u201d as well as its nuclear ambitions, the Chinese commerce ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Japan\u2019s defense ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
Ties between China and Japan have been strained since late last year after sensitive Taiwan-related remarks by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Tokyo\u2019s decision to increase defense spending, prompting Beijing to begin imposing export controls on dual-use items in January.<\/p>\n
\u201cChina\u2019s lawful action of listing only targets a small number of Japanese entities; the relevant measures apply only to dual-use items, which does not affect the normal economic and trade exchanges between China and Japan,\u201d the ministry said, reassuring that law-abiding Japanese entities operating \u201cin good faith\u201d need not worry.<\/p>\n
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By signing up with an email address, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the Terms of Service<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cOur government has filed a stern protest and demanded the withdrawal of the steps,\u201d Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said at a regular news conference, describing the measures as \u201cabsolutely unacceptable and extremely regrettable.\u201d<\/p>\n The 20 entities include Japan\u2019s National Institute for Defense Studies, as well as six subsidiaries of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Japan\u2019s largest defense contractor; four units of missile and radar maker Mitsubishi Electric; and two subsidiaries of aircraft and submarine builder Kawasaki Heavy Industries, according to the ministry\u2019s notice.<\/p>\n Spokespeople for MHI and Mitsubishi Electric said they were assessing the announcement but declined to say whether it could affect their businesses.<\/p>\n Dual-use items are goods, software or technology with potential military or weapons-development applications.<\/p>\n Chinese exporters are prohibited from selling to the entities while foreign organizations and individuals are prohibited from transferring or supplying dual-use items originating in China to them, effective immediately.<\/p>\n The ministry also put 20 other Japanese entities on a watchlist for which it could not verify the end users or final use of dual-use items exported to them.<\/p>\n The watchlist deters trade with those entities but requires exporters applying to do so to provide a risk assessment report and a written commitment not to use dual-use items for any purpose that would enhance Japanese military strength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING \u2014 China added 20 Japanese entities on Monday to its export control list for dual-use items, preventing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[217,215,12,1468,12401,33564,19795,33762,8,214,216,8762,33674,33763,33765,1170,6430,33764,33760,1850,33766,33761],"class_list":["post-49652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-business-of-japan","tag-china","tag-defense-ministry","tag-diplomatic-tensions","tag-dual-use-items","tag-export-control","tag-export-curbs","tag-japan","tag-japans-business","tag-japanese-business","tag-kawasaki-heavy-industries","tag-military-applications","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-ministry-of-commerce","tag-mitsubishi-electric","tag-mitsubishi-heavy-industries","tag-national-institute-for-defense-studies","tag-nuclear-ambitions","tag-remilitarization","tag-risk-assessment","tag-trade-exchanges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}