Alibaba pushes to shed US defense label on Chinese firm list
Alibaba filed a petition in the Northern District of California asking a federal court to remove the Pentagon’s designation of Alibaba as a Chinese military company from the DoD list that bars such entities from U.S. defense contracts, arguing the label has no factual or legal basis and was issued without fair process. The case follows broader tensions over the DoD’s 188-entity list, which Beijing and several companies have protested, and comes as other firms like DJI and WuXi AppTec challenge their own designations. Alibaba says it operates with an independent board and has no military affiliation, countering DoD claims of indirect state links through China’s SASAC and other ministries.
