At least 70 per cent of Chinese corporations, the US State Department stated right this moment.
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At least 70 per cent of Chinese corporations, with ties to the Chinese navy have associates whose securities are included in main inventory indices, the US State Department stated right this moment, including that these corporations are concerned in civilian and navy manufacturing with cash from the US traders.
As of June 22, out of 31 companies with Chinese navy ties had not less than 68 distinct affiliated corporations whose shares had been included on main benchmarks, South China Morning Post reported citing State Department.
“The Chinese Communist Party’s threat to American national security extends into our financial markets and impacts American investors,” the State Department stated in a reality report early this month.
“Many major stock and bond indices developed by index providers like MSCI and FTSE include malign People’s Republic of China (PRC) companies, listed on the Department of Commerce Entity List and/or the Department of Defense List of Communist Chinese military companies,” it added.
The State Department stated that China National Chemical Corporation and China Communications Construction Company had been among the many 22 companies which have associates included within the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, FTSE Emerging Index and Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Index.
On November 12, US President Donald Trump had signed an government order that prohibits Americans from investing in these 31 companies starting on January 11 subsequent 12 months.
Earlier this month, Washington added one other 4 corporations to the blacklist, together with China’s prime chip maker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation and oil large China National Offshore Oil Corporation.
