US Steps Up Pressure on Europe to Ban Chinese Security-Screening Vendor

An airport staff member checks passengers' luggage passing through an X-ray machine at the Terminal 3 of the Orly airport, in Orly, on the outskirts of Paris, on June 22, 2020. BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images

WASHINGTON—The U.S. government is lobbying Europe to bar China’s largest maker of X-ray machines and scanners, saying that the company poses a security threat.

The Chinese state-controlled company Nuctech, which provides screening systems for cargo, luggage, and passengers at airports and other ports of entry, has made significant inroads into the European market in recent years.