Yesterday, we reported that the US Federal Government has set up Chinese video game publisher Tencent – owner of the legendary developer Riot Games, Path of EXI Developering Granting Gear and more – in the list of Chinese military companies. The list in the question is part of the strategy against what the United States considered a close relationship between China’s armed forces and civil technology providers and different research projects.
At the time of publishing yesterday, a Tencent spokesman commented that this list was based on “misunderstandings”. In a statement sent to RPS overnight and also published online, Tencent’s president, Ma Hualeng and the executive committee said they were ready to be legitimate if the misunderstanding was not resolved.
The full statement was quite robot, and mainly only made a spokesperson’s previous argument that Tencent was actually unrelated to anything military. It continues to argue that Tencent is not a “military consolidation”, to deal with the US Department of Defense Standing statement that Chinese armed forces are based on “technology and expertise” provided by Chinese companies, universities and research programs “” seem to be civilian entities “.
“Because the company is not a Chinese military company nor is the military consolidated contributor to the Chinese defense industry, so they believe its included in it in [Chinese Military Company] The list is a mistake, “the statement wrote.
The statement also appointed that “CMC list” – introduced by the first term of Trump, and is known inside the US government is the list of 1260H Section – different from another document, the Military complex list – Chinese -free SDN, maintained by the US foreign asset control office. The problem is that “putting on the CMC list will not ban anyone (outside the Ministry of Defense) with business transactions with the company, including the company’s securities transactions”.
Tencent talks about “to start a review process to correct this mistake”, in which they “will participate in discussions with the US Department of Defense to solve all misunderstandings, and if necessary, will carry out legal procedures to remove the company from the CMC list.”
If it comes to a lawsuit, Tencent will not be the first Chinese company to go to court to put them on the “military consolidation” list of the US government. According to Reuters report, DJI drones and manufacturer Lidar Hesai Technologies sued the Pentagon last year on their indications, although they are still on the list.
