The US Treasury has blocked an attempt by the Pentagon and state department to put some of China’s largest tech companies on a blacklist that would have banned US investors from holding their stock.
The Pentagon and state department had pushed hard to add Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu to a list of Chinese companies that the defence department alleges has links to the Chinese military.
But according to three people familiar with the situation, Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, won a fight that pitted him against Mike Pompeo, the hawkish secretary of state, and Chris Miller, the defence secretary.
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