TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China on Tuesday criticized new sanctions imposed by the United States on firms believed to be concerned in coaching Chinese navy pilots and aiding weapons improvement.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin urged Washington to “stop abusing export control measures” to hobble Chinese firms.

“The United States has repeatedly overstretched the concept of national security, abused state power, unwarrantedly suppressed Chinese companies, and wantonly disrupted the international economic order and trade rules,” Wang mentioned at a every day briefing in Beijing. “It has reached a level of unscrupulous hysteria.”

China “demands that the U.S. immediately correct its wrong practice of politicizing, instrumentalizing, and weaponizing economic, trade, and sci-tech issues with a pretext of human rights or military-related issues,” Wang mentioned.

On Monday, the U.S. authorities positioned 43 “entities” on an export management record over nationwide safety and overseas coverage considerations. The record consists of each Chinese and overseas firms.

Among these listed have been Frontier Services Group Ltd., a safety and aviation firm beforehand run by Blackwater founder Erik Prince, and Test Flying Academy of South Africa, a flight faculty below scrutiny by British authorities for hiring retired British navy pilots to coach Chinese fliers.

The firms are barred from receiving U.S. exports for actions deemed opposite to U.S. nationwide curiosity.

Other firms have been sanctioned for aiding improvement of China’s hypersonic weapons and the modernization of its military, the Commerce Department help.

Two firms - Beijing Ryan Wende Science and Technology Co. Ltd. and Xinjiang Kehua Hechang Biological Science and Technology Co. Ltd. — have been added for allegedly supplying objects that helped the Chinese authorities monitor Uyghurs and different ethnic minorities. The U.S. has imposed a number of rounds of sanctions and import curbs over the previous three years on firms believed to be aiding Beijing’s crackdown on ethnic minorities in its western Xinjiang area.

While the 2 nations spar over nationwide safety and human rights points, they're additionally working to maintain strains of communication open to keep away from an unintentional battle.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is predicted in Beijing later this week, in a go to beforehand postponed on account of an alleged Chinese spy balloon that traveled throughout U.S. territory in February.

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