Alibaba sues the US Defense Department in a bid to remove 'Chinese military company' designation (opens in new tab)

The Chinese tech giant Alibaba has sued the U.S. Department of Defense, demanding that it be removed from the Pentagon's list of Chinese military companies that prohibits them from landing U.S. defense contracts and carries reputational damage. In the petition filed this week in the San Jose division of the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, Alibaba, which is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange, argued that the designation, announced on June 8, has “no basi...