Alibaba Wins Challenge to Pentagon’s Chinese Army Blacklisting
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A US court pushback on Alibaba’s Pentagon blacklist shows how fluid the legal framing around “military-linked” Chinese tech remains. For operators, cross-border data, cloud, and vendor strategies need explicit legal contingency plans—not assumptions that today’s designation regime will hold.
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