WASHINGTON: The US Treasury Department is drafting curbs that would block firms with at least 25% Chinese ownership from buying US companies with “industrially significant technology”, a government official briefed on the matter said on June 24.
The official, whose comments matched a report by the Wall Street Journal, emphasised that the Chinese ownership threshold may change before the restrictions are announced on Friday.
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