Over 1,600 state and local government entities have purchased technology from Chinese companies that are restricted at the federal level, a new report released this week says.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is met by Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Sept. 14 in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.
"This covers everything from schools, hospitals, transit systems, utility departments and other government facilities," Kratsios told Fox News Digital in an interview."The majority of these purchases are actually done by public schools and universities, but you do see a lot of activity also in the in public utility space and even some activity in the judiciary."
China's President Xi Jinping speaks during the joint opening ceremony of the 8th round of U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogues in Beijing. And a number of pieces of legislation have barred federal agencies from using tech and services from certain Chinese companies or restricted such purchases with federal dollars. The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act barred the government from using equipment from the five Chinese companies, while a Commerce Department rule allows the agency to block procurement of certain tech.
Also, modern ICTS supply chain spans tens of thousands of companies and therefore might not always be clear where the links are between firms – with tech manufactured by one company often containing components from another.
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