Alibaba Sues Pentagon Over China Military Label
Department of Defense, challenging the Pentagon’s decision to designate it as a company affiliated with the Chinese military.Best known internationally for its e-commerce business, Alibaba has also become a major cloud-computing provider and one of China’s leading developers of advanced artificial intelligence systems. Also added were several of China’s most strategically important firms, including manufacturers of electric vehicles, memory chips, robots and pharmaceuticals. The E.V. maker BYD and the robotics firm Unitree were also included in the list.The designation effectively bars Alibaba from doing business with the Pentagon.
- ▪Department of Defense, challenging the Pentagon’s decision to designate it as a company affiliated with the Chinese military.Best known internationally for its e-commerce business, Alibaba has also become a major cloud-computing provider an
- ▪Also added were several of China’s most strategically important firms, including manufacturers of electric vehicles, memory chips, robots and pharmaceuticals.
- ▪The E.V. maker BYD and the robotics firm Unitree were also included in the list.The designation effectively bars Alibaba from doing business with the Pentagon.
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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTAlibaba Sues Pentagon Over China Military LabelThe Chinese tech giant said it had no ties to China’s military and that the U.S. government had violated the law by making that claim.Listen · 3:23 min Share full articleAlibaba has become one of China’s leading artificial intelligence companies.Credit...Qilai Shen for The New York TimesBy Meaghan TobinReporting from Taipei, TaiwanJune 24, 2026阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 !function(){var e="gps_module_impressions",s="gps_suppress_module",t=new URLSearchParams(window.location.search),o="1"===t.get("gps_debug")?function(e,s){console.log("[gps]",e,void…
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