Alibaba, Baidu, BYD recommended for US military-linked watchlist, Pentagon says

The Pentagon has told lawmakers that Alibaba, Baidu and BYD should be treated as companies that support the Chinese military, according to a Bloomberg report that cites an internal monolog from senior defense officials. The assessment marks one of Washington’s sharpest warnings yet about the reach of China’s tech sector inside the United States. Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg made the case in an October 7 letter to Congress, three weeks before Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping agreed to a temporary trade truce. Feinberg wrote that the companies merit inclusion on the Section 1260H list, calling the findings part…