The firm's technology is used in wide-scale repression of the Muslim population of western China. (Photo: Shutterstock)
Its video surveillance systems have won Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. a place on the Trump administration's blacklist for their use in wide-scale repression of the Muslim population of western China.
As a result, a number of U.S. pension funds are rethinking their investments.
A Reuters report says that Hikvision and seven other companies made the blacklist "because they allegedly enabled the crackdown that has led to mass arbitrary detentions in the Xinjiang region."
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Marlene Satter
Marlene Y. Satter has worked in and written about the financial industry for decades.
