Lithuania Set to Block Chinese Airport Scanner Firm Nuctech

Lithuania Set to Block Chinese Airport Scanner Firm Nuctech
Travellers leave Vilnius Airport, in Lithuania, on March 14, 2020. Petras Malukas/AFP via Getty Images
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VILNIUS, Lithuania—A Chinese state-owned maker of security-screening equipment should be blocked from supplying equipment for Lithuania’s three international airports over national security concerns, the Lithuanian government said Friday.

Beijing-based Nuctech last year won a bid to install baggage scanners at airports in Vilnius, Kaunas, and Palanga, government spokeswoman Rasa Jakilaitiene said. No deal has been signed.