Technology giant says US defence department wrongly labelled it a Chinese military company without evidence
3-MIN READ3-MIN ListenYuanyue Dangin WashingtonPublished: 4:52am, 24 Jun 2026Chinese technology and e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding has sued the US Department of Defence, seeking to be removed from a blacklist of companies deemed to support China’s military.
The Pentagon’s move violated constitutional due process and the company’s right to free speech, Alibaba said in the filing.
On June 9, the Department of Defence added Alibaba, electric vehicle makers BYD and Nio, search engine Baidu, robot maker Unitree Robotics, networking equipment maker TP-Link and other Chinese companies in artificial intelligence, biotechnology and the solar sector to a list of “Chinese military companies”.
The companies are almost all in sectors at the heart of the intense technological competition between China and the US.
