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Alibaba sues the Pentagon to get off its Chinese military companies list

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June 24, 2026

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Alibaba sues the Pentagon to get off its Chinese military companies list

Alibaba has taken the US Department of Defense to court over a label the company insists it does not deserve. In a complaint filed on Tuesday in the federal court in San Jose, California, the Hangzhou group asked a judge to strike its name from the Pentagon’s list of “Chinese military companies” and declared the [] This story continues at The Next Web

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