This week, the U.S. government announced new additions to a list of "Chinese Military Companies" and also added several Chinese companies to a Commerce Department "Entity List."

Hesai Technology, an electronics company headquartered in Shanghai, has filed an amended complaint and a motion for summary judgment in a case against the U.S. Department of Defense to get itself taken off a blacklist of Chinese military companies.

During a legal challenge to its decision to list Chinese lidar maker Hesai as a "Chinese military company," the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has delisted the company and then relisted it, with the impact on the litigation uncertain.

Last week, Chinese drone maker DJI brought a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Department of Defense for its "military" designation of DJI, putting forward a number of constitutional and Administrative Procedures Act claims.

Litigation over Hesai Technology's lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense to get itself taken off a blacklist of Chinese military companies is continuing, with two new briefs filed recently.

Last week, members of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party pressed the Biden administration to look into two drone makers with a connection to DJI and to place CATL on a Defense Department blacklist.

Chinese semiconductor equipment maker Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMEC) has become the second Chinese company to challenge a U.S. Defense Department decision to designate it as a "Chinese military company."