On June 29, China’s Ministry of Commerce added 20 Japanese entities to its export control list, the harder of two lists it issued that day. The order bars Chinese companies from supplying those firms with dual-use goods, and bars anyone, anywhere, from sending them dual-use items made in China. Most news coverage filed it under the running dispute that began last November, when Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggested that a Chinese attack on Taiwan could justify a Japanese military response.