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U.S. Judge Grants Alibaba Temporary Reprieve to Resume Lobbying
A federal judge allowed Alibaba to resume U.S. lobbying pending a constitutional review of Pentagon restrictions. The order follows the company's loss of lobbyists after a law targeting firms linked to alleged Chinese military entities.
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Jul 6, 7:22 PM·1m read
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A U.S. federal judge on July 6 granted Alibaba a temporary reprieve that allows the Chinese e-commerce company to resume lobbying in the United States. The ruling directs the Pentagon not to classify Alibaba as a Chinese military company while the court examines the constitutionality of the underlying measure.
Washington lobbyists had dropped Alibaba as a client after a U.S. law barred the Pentagon from working with firms that represented entities on the Pentagon’s blacklist of alleged Chinese-military-linked companies. Semafor reported the sequence of events.
-China technological rivalry. Semafor reported that U.S. AI firms are adopting a more aggressive stance toward Chinese competitors, accusing them of stealing technology to build increasingly powerful AI systems.
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