WASHINGTON—The Biden administration added dozens of Chinese companies and research institutes to blacklists restricting access to U.S. investment and technology for their alleged support for China’s military and the mass surveillance of mainly Muslim ethnic groups.
The Commerce and Treasury departments targeted an array of Chinese businesses, from a company that lays undersea fiber-optic cables to developers of facial-recognition technology to the world’s largest commercial drone-maker, DJI Technology Co. The Commerce action also took aim at China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences and a complex of research institutes under its control.
