By adding 38 of its affiliates across 21 nations to its Entity List and taking steps to prevent the company from circumventing American law,The US on Monday tightened the noose around Huawei, which it considers an arm of the Chinese Communist Party’s surveillance state.

From the official statement, most of the 38 companies are from various countries and Huawei’s affiliates in India have already been added to the Entity List. They have been doing business with Huawei on acquiring tech components from American soil. It’s also interesting to note that all the companies are actually Huawei branches outside of China, and their main role functions are being Huawei Cloud Centres, Research and Developments Centres, design, and others. Anyway, below is an official statement from US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.

“As we have restricted [Huawei’s] access to U.S. technology, Huawei and its affiliates have worked through third parties to harness U.S. technology in a manner that undermines U.S. national security and foreign policy interests. This multi-pronged action demonstrates our continuing commitment to impede Huawei’s ability to do so,”