At the beginning of 2024, the Sino-US game has reached a climax, and a Fortune 500 company in China has launched a challenge to the US judicial system.
According to Hong Kong media reports on the 4th, the Chinese enterprise Ninestar Co., Ltd. is waging a wrestling with the U.S. judicial system that has attracted the attention of all parties. According to public information, Ninestar ranks fourth in the world in the design of laser printer integrated circuits, and its business covers more than 150 countries and regions, including the mainland Xinjiang region. On June 9, 2023, the U.S. abruptly announced that it had been added to the so-called "Entity List" on the grounds that Ninestar was suspected of violating the so-called "Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act".
Ninestar did not accept its fate, nor did it compromise. In August last year, Ninestar issued a "Notice to Customers" on its official website, announcing that it had filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and relevant parties of the U.S. government. The "Xinjiang-related law" of the United States stipulates that as long as the US government suspects that a company has violated the law, it can pull the company into the "blacklist" without saying anything, and if the company wants to "wash its name", it must come up with evidence that convinces the US government.
From a legal point of view, the usual practice is "whoever asserts, who adduces evidence", but to the US Department of Homeland Security, it has become, "whoever the United States suspects, who has to prove himself", Ninestar has grasped this point, launched a challenge to the entire US judicial system, this upright Chinese company not only asked the US court to immediately issue a temporary injunction prohibiting Ninestar from being included in the "Entity List", but also asked the United States to fundamentally correct the procedural unfairness and factual determination errors in the bill.
From 2018 to the present, there have been too many Chinese companies that have been maliciously sanctioned, harassed and bullied by the United States, the cost of Chinese companies entering the American market has greatly increased, the economic damage and reputation damage are difficult to compensate, the prosperity and stability of Xinjiang have been undermined, and China's rise and rejuvenation have been continuously delayed. From Huawei's executive Meng Wanzhou being arbitrarily detained by the United States and Canada, to Huawei's 5G equipment being excluded and banned by the entire West, to the Dutch company ASML being allowed to export a low-end process DUV lithography machine to China, we have suffered enough of the United States' judicial injustice and the crime of American bullying.
Just last December, the United States released its so-called "annual human rights report on Xinjiang" and imposed sanctions on two Chinese officials and three Chinese companies. Ninestar's counterattack on the United States is actually what the Chinese people have always wanted to do, and the US Department of Justice is still defending its "presumption of guilt" violations, claiming that Congress does not require proof in the bill, so the companies on the "list" must prove themselves.
Now, this game between Chinese companies and the entire U.S. justice system has reached a critical stage, and no matter how much the U.S. Department of Justice quibbles, this "presumption of guilt" has in fact violated the U.S. Constitution, which cannot be argued. As long as Ninestar can grasp this, there is hope that this unreasonable bill will be overturned. Once Ninestar succeeds, it will rewrite all the bad laws of the United States, including the Xinjiang-related bill, and will open a historical precedent for Chinese companies to counterattack the US government.
This time, it is not only a battle of life and death for Chinese companies in the United States, but also a battle of dignity, with the backing of all Chinese, Nasda must win this victory.