President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Thursday adding more companies to a Trump-era investment ban on 31 Chinese companies, which was released last November.
It prohibited U.S. capital from investing in major Chinese groups such as Chinese tech giant Huawei, China's biggest chip-maker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, and the country's largest telecom company China Mobile.
The extended ban is set to take effect from August 2, according to a White House statement.
In response, China vowed to protect the legitimate rights of its companies and called on the U.S. to follow the rule of law, CGTN reported.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a regular briefing on Thursday that the move severely undermines normal market rules and order and damages the interests of global investors.
He added that the blacklist is "politically motivated" and "ignores the facts and actual situation" of the firms involved.
The ban will weigh on the Chinese companies listed on the Wall Street, and may make companies more cautious in offering stocks on the U.S. bourses, said John Gong, professor of economics at the University of International Business and Economics.
He emphasized that the sanction has sprung from the Sino-U.S. tech competition. Big businesses are standing behind the sanctions, and the U.S. is aiming to cut the ties between China's military tech and commercial tech, Gong told CGTN.
Gong added the newly released list was more targeted than the former ones. U.S. courts have earlier ruled that the Trump government failed to provide sufficient evidence to justify sanctions against Chinese companies.
China's electronic device maker Xiaomi was removed from the Trump-era blacklist in March after a lawsuit. In the same month, a U.S. judge suspended an investment ban imposed on Luokung Technology, a Chinese mapping technology company.
Gao Feng, a spokesperson from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, urged the U.S. side to stop suppressing Chinese enterprises.
China has reiterated that lifting sanctions and restrictions and stopping suppression of Chinese companies will benefit China, the United States, as well as the whole world, Gao said.
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