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Conservative actress Gina Carano found rare support among liberals in the mainstream media following her firing from “The Mandalorian” over social media posts and being dropped by her agency UTA.  In an essay titled, “Firing Actors for Being Conservative Is Another Hollywood Blacklist,” New York magazine columnist Jonathan Chait began by recalling the polarizing period in …

The Trump administration is poised to add China’s top chipmaker SMIC and national offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, according to a document and sources, curbing their access to US investors and escalating tensions with Beijing weeks before President-elect Joe Biden takes office. Reuters reported earlier this month …

The Trump administration is considering putting some of Amazon.com Inc’s overseas websites on a list of global marketplaces known for counterfeit goods, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The action would be taken by the US Trade Representative’s Office through its annual “notorious markets” list, the report said, adding …

LightRocket via Getty Images The offer was first touted in mid-September and confirmed two weeks later—Huawei would be willing to license the company’s entire 5G platform to any U.S. business willing to pay the Shenzhen giant a hefty fee and invest time and resources to ready the tech for the U.S. market. A month later, …

The United States is blacklisting a group of Chinese tech companies that develop facial recognition and other artificial intelligence technology that the US says is being used to repress China’s Muslim minority groups. A move Monday by the US Commerce Department puts the companies on a so-called Entity List for acting contrary to American foreign policy interests. …

WASHINGTON—The U.S. added 28 Chinese entities to an export blacklist Monday, citing their role in Beijing’s repression of Muslim minorities in northwest China, just days before high-level trade talks are set to resume in Washington. The action, which the U.S. said wasn’t related to trade talks, was nonetheless likely to disturb Chinese officials already incensed …