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Update: China suggests it may retaliate over US blacklist

The U.S. added a number of Chinese entities to its trade blacklist over their alleged involvement in human rights violations, a claim China denied, suggesting it may retaliate.

The U.S. Commerce Department added Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. Ltd. and 27 other Chinese entities to a trade blacklist over alleged human rights violations against Muslim minority groups in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, according to a draft filing by the Bureau of Industry and Security.

The entities to be added to the Entity List also include the Chinese region's public security bureau and 19 subordinate units, as well as seven other companies: Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co. Ltd., iFlytek Co. Ltd., Megvii Technology Ltd., Sensetime Investment Ltd., Xiamen Meiya Pico Information Co. Ltd., Yitu Technology and Yixin Science and Technology Co. Ltd.

"These entities have been implicated in human rights violations and abuses in the implementation of China's campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention and high-technology surveillance against Uighurs, Kazakhs and other members of Muslim minority groups in [Xinjiang]," according to the filing.

Companies and entities on the Entity List are barred from dealing with U.S. companies unless authorized by the government.

U.S. officials said the move was not related to ongoing trade talks with China, which will resume this week, Reuters reported.

Asked whether China would react to the U.S. move, China Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said "stay tuned," urging the U.S. to "stop interfering in China's internal affairs," Bloomberg News reported.

Hikvision reportedly opposed the U.S. decision, saying it would hurt the U.S. economy.