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Pentagon Cited Alibaba on China Military Aid in Oct. 7 Letter (yahoo.com)

(Wednesday November 26, 2025 @05:41PM (msmash) from the how-about-that dept.)


An anonymous reader shares a report:

> The Pentagon concluded that Alibaba Group, Baidu and BYD should be [1]added to a list of companies that aid the Chinese military , according to a letter to Congress sent roughly three weeks before Donald Trump and Xi Jinping agreed to a broad trade truce.

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> Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg informed lawmakers of the conclusion in the Oct. 7 letter, a copy of which was seen by Bloomberg News, to the heads of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. It wasn't clear whether the companies have been formally included in the the Pentagon's so-called 1260H list, which carries no direct legal repercussions but serves as a major warning to US investors.



[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-cited-alibaba-china-military-180926280.html



Alibaba (Score:1)

by Anonymous Coward

Chinese company named after a Moselm thief. I can't wait to given them my credit card #.

Re: (Score:2)

by Kernel Kurtz ( 182424 )

> Chinese company named after a Moselm thief. I can't wait to given them my credit card #.

Just got an Aliexpress order a couple days ago. It was easier on my credit card than the same thing from Amazon.

Re: Alibaba (Score:3)

by drinkypoo ( 153816 )

I buy from AliExpress all the time. (Same business, different storefront.) As a rule they are roughly as responsive as Amazon. Shipping takes longer but prices are much better. Pretty much all the cheap crap on Amazon comes from them and it's much cheaper from the source. So far they have processed all of my complaints gracefully.

Some of their stuff is good. (Score:2)

by sit1963nz ( 934837 )

I regularly buy bits and pieces from them, sure some is crap, but a LOT of it is good quality.

There are LOTS of countries where firms are suppliers to the military, including the USA.

So glass houses/stones/etc.

Pentagon learning what "China" is (Score:2)

by jacks smirking reven ( 909048 )

It isn't really new information that the largest corporations in China are either directly involved with the Chinese government or implicitly involved with the Chinese government and if you are intertwined with the Chinese government then you are with their military, this separation that we are used to in the US simply doesn't and has never existed over there.

This is how it has always been and it's by design, it's a Loki's wager of private/public systems. This is feeling even more performative and desperat

Alibaba blames courier blames Alibaba (Score:1)

by greytree ( 7124971 )

The courier lost an item I ordered on Alibaba.

Alibaba say I have to contact the courier for compensation.

The courier's customer service bot says only the sender can ask for compensation and cuts off the chat.

Alibaba have screwed me.

Re: (Score:3)

by DeanonymizedCoward ( 7230266 )

> The courier lost an item I ordered on Alibaba

I always use my most customer-friendly credit card to order from AliExpress, just in case I need to dispute. Only happened once, shitty fly-by-night courier lost the package, I got the runaround, played a round or two of phone tag then just disputed the charge. Lo and behold the package got delivered a few days later. Overall, with dozens of orders, I've been pretty satisfied with their customer service, I've had a couple lost packages and they immediately refunded or reshipped.

Amazon is better about thi

No Shit (Score:2)

by darkain ( 749283 )

File this under the "NO SHIT" department.

Do you think the US Military is buying random shit on Amazon? Of course they are! It may even be at the individual person level, but its totally still a thing.

Alibaba is Chinese Amazon. Yes, they buy products.

Oh, okay, what about the OTHER stuff Alibaba does?

Yes, they're also Chinese AWS. Do you think the military uses cloud computers? Of fucking course they do.

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