As the U.S. military retrieves debris from a Chinese balloon destroyed this month over the Atlantic Ocean, new indications are emerging from Washington of how high-tech components might point to a new Beijing spying threat.
The Commerce Department on Friday named six Chinese enterprises as makers of balloon and airship equipment, which the agency alleged is connected to intelligence gathering by the People’s Liberation Army. The enterprises were added to a lengthy register of companies the U.S. aims to block from obtaining American high technology—sophisticated components and processes China lacks and that the government believes could be used to do harm to U.S. interests.
