The US is deliberating whether to add Hikvision, Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co (浙江大華科技) and several unidentified others to a blacklist that bars them from US components or software, people familiar with the matter said. Shares of Hikvision and Dahua plunged in Shenzhen after the New York Times first reported on the potential ban. Chinese firms such as Hikvision and Dahua are the world’s largest purveyors of surveillance hardware, while others in China specialize in image processing software. “We hope the company receives a fair and just treatment,” Hikvision secretary of the board Huang Fanghong (黃方紅) said in a statement. At the heart of Trump’s campaign is suspicion that Chinese firms aid Beijing in global espionage while spearheading its ambitions of becoming a technology superpower.

Source: Taipei Times May 22, 2019 16:00 UTC