Three US on Friday said it will add chipmaker S.

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Commerce Department Secretary Wilbur Ross said his department would, in his words, not allow advanced US technology to help build the military oven.

Increasingly belligerent adversary, he said in a Fox business interview.

Three US is adding 77 companies and affiliates to its so called entity list.

60 of them are Chinese.

That designation would force those companies to seek a special license from the Commerce Department before US supplier could send it key goods.

At a Friday press conference, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Win been said Beijing would continue to take what he called necessary measures to protect the rights of Chinese companies.

WAY urged the US to cease its miss taken behavior of unwarranted oppression of foreign companies.

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It shares fell Friday in Hong Kong and Shanghai.