Lawmakers Ask to Designate Deepseek, Xiaomi as Aiding Chinese Military

Members of Congress want to highlight Chinese technology firms that are allegedly helping to modernize the People’s Liberation Army.
Lawmakers Ask to Designate Deepseek, Xiaomi as Aiding Chinese Military
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Nine lawmakers have sent a letter to War Secretary Pete Hegseth asking him to add several Chinese technology companies to a list of firms kept by the War Department for allegedly aiding the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) military.

The Dec. 18 letter regarding these nonmilitary technology firms states that they are contributing to the “modernization, internal-security operations, and power-projection capabilities” of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).