Nine lawmakers have sent a letter to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth asking him to add several Chinese technology companies to a list of firms kept by the department for allegedly aiding the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) military.
The Dec. 18 letter regarding these nonmilitary technology firms said they are contributing to the “modernization, internal-security operations, and power-projection capabilities” of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
In 2021, the National Defense Authorization Act established a list to be maintained by the Defense Department (now the War Department) of all Chinese military entities. It was intended to prevent the U.S. government from inadvertently aiding the CCP’s military, surveillance, and intelligence capabilities….
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