US Leaders Seek to Blacklist China’s Quectel on Military Ties

Jan. 4, 2024, 9:24 PM UTC

Leaders of a US House panel on China asked the Biden administration to consider restricting access to capital for Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., saying the Shanghai-based maker of widely used internet-connection modules is tied to the country’s military.

Quectel is “a key supplier for numerous firms that the Department of Defense has already listed as Chinese military companies,” Representative Mike Gallagher, the Republican chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, the panel’s top Democrat, said in a Jan. 3 letter released Thursday.

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