A U.S. State Department official called out Chinese tech firms such as Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent as Huawei “siblings” for their role in facilitating China’s pervasive state surveillance and global agenda.
“Chinese technology giants have become deeply enmeshed in Beijing’s system of oppression at home and its increasingly assertive strategic ambitions globally,” said Christopher Ford, the assistant secretary of state for international security and non-proliferation, at a Sept. 11 conference in Washington.
