China imposed sanctions on 10 U.S. technology companies, blocking their export of dual-use items to the United States, while the U.S. Pentagon blacklisted Chinese companies to restrict their access to defense contracts. The sanctioned U.S. firms include manufacturers of military drones and companies involved in rare earth mining. China defined dual-use items as goods with both military and non-military applications. According to gdelt, China stated its export ban was intended to safeguard its national security and respond to the U.S. government's 'wrongful expansion of its so-called List of Chinese Military Companies.' According to theatlantic.com, China has tightened export controls on rare-earth metals, processes 90 percent of rare earths globally, and began curtailing the export of rare earths to the United States at the height of the trade dispute in April. According to scmp, since Donald Trump launched a tariff war against China during his first term, Washington has steadily expanded restrictions on Chinese access to advanced technologies, targeting semiconductors, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, aerospace systems, supercomputers, and a broad range of dual-use technologies, with the aim of slowing China’s rise in high-end manufacturing and frontier science. According to merics.org, China’s sanctions toolbox includes the Unreliable Entity List and the Anti-foreign Sanctions Law, and geopolitical tensions have changed China’s perception of sanctions. According to merics.org, the trade conflict with the U.S. and sanctions imposed in 2021 by the EU, the UK, and the U.S. for human-rights abuses in Xinjiang and the imposition of sanctions on Russia were three pivotal moments in the shaping of China’s approach to sanctions. According to cnn.com, the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to end temporary deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals from Haiti and Syria. According to cnn.com, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to revive a controversial policy that aims to curb the number of migrants that officials at the southern border must process to determine whether they have a right to seek safe haven in the U.S. According to cnn.com, the Supreme Court struck down a Hawaii law that banned guns on private property open to the public where the owner hadn’t explicitly condoned the carrying of firearms.