The US adding Tencent and CATL to its military company list risks accelerating decoupling between the world's biggest economies.
The US’s latest move to expand its list of Chinese military companies risks doing more than tanking the shares of some of its most valuable companies: It also threatens to accelerate decoupling of the world’s biggest economies. The Biden administration on Monday added Tencent Holdings Ltd., the world’s largest gaming publisher, and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd., a key battery supplier to Tesla Inc.
, to its list of “Chinese military companies”— firms it says are working directly or indirectly with the People’s Liberation Army, or contributing significantly to China’s industrial base. Since the first list was put out in 2021, as mandated by a law passed in the waning days of Donald Trump’s first term, it has expanded to 134 companies—including four of China’s top 20 in terms of market capitalization, which together are valued at almost $1 trillion. While the list carries no specific sanctions, unlike the Commerce Department’s Entity List, it still discourages US firms from dealing with its members and amounts to a reputational hit for the firms involved. More broadly, the rapid expansion of the register shows the extent to which lines are being blurred between military and civilian enterprises, and risks accelerating the bifurcation of supply chains if stronger measures are applied down the road. It’s an approach that risks backfiring on Washington, according to Kishore Mahbubani, Singapore’s former ambassador to the United Nations, who called the latest addition “unwise.” “The whole world will move towards relying on Chinese companies for a whole range of products, including companies like Tencent and CATL,” said Mahbubani, who’s also the author of“If the US tries to decouple from Chinese companies and their global reach, the US is not just decoupling from China,” Mahbubani said. “It is decoupling from the rest of the world, to
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