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Congress in 2019 banned the Pentagon from buying or using drones and components manufactured in China. The U.S. government has taken other actions to limit Chinese-made drone purchases.
September 9, 2024 at 4:53 PM. By David Shepardson and Michael Martina. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Monday to bar new drones from Chinese drone manufacturer DJI ...
The U.S. also has 25 percent tariffs on Chinese drones, and several states have already completely banned drones from companies like DJI and Autel, another Chinese drone company that the Commerce ...
Among the bills are efforts to reduce U.S. reliance on Chinese biotech companies, ban Chinese EVs and drones, restrict Chinese nationals from buying farmland, toughen export restrictions and revive a program to root out spying on U.S. intellectual property. If approved, the measures would still need to clear the Senate.
Chinese companies are leaders in the global civilian drone industry and China is the second largest drone market in the world, after the United States. [1] [2] In late of 2010, there were more than a hundred Chinese UAV developers/manufacturers. [3] Chinese manufacturer DJI held three-quarters of consumer market share in 2017. [4]
BANGKOK (AP) — China will ban the export of all unregulated civilian drones that can be used for military purposes or in terrorist activities and restrict certain drone features as Beijing faces repeated Western criticism for its stance on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
From 2020 onward, the US imposed sanctions and visa restrictions against several Chinese government officials and companies, in response to the persecution of Uyghurs in China, human rights abuses in Hong Kong and Tibet, military-civil fusion, support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and fentanyl production.
That year, a DJI drone was nearly involved in a midair collision with a Chinese fighter jet. The Chinese government subsequently insisted that DJI develop an air traffic registry to track its drones within China. [6] On 30 March 2018, Israel Defense Forces used DJI's Matrice 600 drones to drop tear gas from above on Gazan protestors. [102] [103]