Chinese companies shrug off Biden move to extend US blacklist

Analysts warn hawkish stance may hinder Wall Street banks' rush into China

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Most of the 59 companies in the new U.S. blacklist are state-owned enterprises in areas where China is working to challenge U.S. supremacy. (Nikkei montage/AP)

NARAYANAN SOMASUNDARAM, CHENG TING-FANG and LAULY LI, Nikkei staff writers

HONG KONG/ TAIPEI -- Investors on Friday shrugged off U.S. President Joe Biden's blacklisting of 59 Chinese companies, even as analysts described the move as a "more enforceable" extension of a Trump-era ban on U.S. investment in military-linked entities.

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