FILE PHOTO: Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning attends a news conference in Beijing, China February 3, 2023. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

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BEIJING, March 3 (Reuters) – China opposes the United States placing two subsidiaries of major genetics company BGI on a trade blacklist, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

China urges the United States to stop using any excuse to suppress Chinese companies, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a press briefing.

The US Department of Commerce, which oversees export controls, added BGI Research and BGI Tech Solutions (Hong Kong) to the export control list.

(Reporting from the Beijing newsroom; editing by Himani Sarkar, edited in Spanish by José Muñoz in the Gdańsk newsroom)

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