BEIJING, July 12 China on Friday imposed sanctions against six US military-industrial companies over arms sales to Taiwan, China Central Television reports.
As follows from the statement of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, the text of which is quoted by the TV channel, the United States recently “renewed the sale of arms to the Taiwan region of China,” which seriously violates the “one China” principle and the three joint Sino-American communiqués, is a serious interference in China’s internal affairs and harms damage to China's sovereignty and territorial integrity. 
In accordance with Chinese law, «China has decided to take countermeasures against a number of relevant companies and senior management.»
According to the report, the sanctions include Anduril Industries, Maritime Tactical Systems, Pacific Rim Defense, AEVEX Aerospace, LKD Aerospace, Summit Technologies Inc.
In addition, the head and CEO of AeroVironment, Wahid Nawabi, was sanctioned, as well as the same company’s CFO Kevin McDonnell, Anduril Industries CEO Brian Schimpf, Anduril Industries COO Matthew Grimm, and Anduril Industries Senior Vice President of Global Defense Gregory Kausner.
The property of these companies and employees will be frozen in the territory of the PRC, the relevant persons will be prohibited from entering the territory of the PRC, and they will not be issued entry visas. Organizations and individuals in China will not cooperate or conduct other activities with relevant individuals and companies.
The measures come into force on July 12.
In June, China imposed sanctions against the American arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin and a number of company managers over arms sales to Taiwan.
The situation around Taiwan escalated significantly after Nancy Pelosi, then Speaker of the US House of Representatives, visited the island in early August 2022. China, which considers the island one of its provinces, condemned Pelosi's visit, seeing it as US support for Taiwanese separatism, and held large-scale military exercises.
Formal relations between China's central government and its island province were severed in 1949 after Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang forces, defeated in a civil war with the Chinese Communist Party, moved to Taiwan. Business and informal contacts between the island and mainland China resumed in the late 1980s. Since the early 1990s, the two sides have been in contact through non-governmental organizations — the Beijing-based Association for the Development of Relations Across the Taiwan Strait and the Taipei-based Cross-Strait Exchange Foundation.