The U.S. government will be banned from buying Chinese-made surveillance cameras under a $717 billion defense-policy bill passed by the House, the latest move against Chinese technology on the basis of national security concerns.
The bill, passed Thursday, names several Chinese companies—including Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., which is 42%-owned by the Chinese government and is the world’s biggest maker of surveillance equipment. The company’s cameras were present in Fort Leonard Wood, a U.S. Army base in the...