The US Commerce Department has placed DJI on its ‘Entity List’ in an attempt to cut off the Chinese drone maker from the US supply chain.
(Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) The US Commerce Department has placed DJI and three other Chinese companies on an export blacklist over claims that their technology is being used for human rights abuses. They are now on an “Entity List” in a bid to cut off the Chinese drone maker and others from the US supply chain. “Specifically, these four entities have enabled wide-scale human rights abuses within China through abusive genetic collection and analysis or high-technology surveillance, and/or facilitated the export of items by China that aid repressive regimes around the world, contrary to US foreign policy interests,” the Bureau of Industry and Security wrote in a filing. The action was taken after a Bloomberg report in March noted that DJI had been supplying drone technology to Chinese security forces in Xinjiang, where the government has been placing the local Uyghur population in internment camps.
