By MLex Staff ( June 9, 2026, 08:38 GMT | Insight) -- China has pushed back after the Pentagon added Alibaba, BYD, Baidu and dozens of other Chinese companies to its “Chinese military companies” list, saying Washington was overstretching national-security concepts and unfairly targeting Chinese companies. Several listed companies, including Alibaba, Baidu, NIO and WuXi AppTec, rejected the designation, saying it was mistaken and would not affect normal business operations.China urged the US to stop what it called the unreasonable suppression of Chinese companies after the Pentagon added Alibaba, BYD, Baidu and dozens of other companies to its list of “Chinese military companies,” widening a blacklist that increasingly reaches into civilian technology, electric vehicles, renewable energy and biotechnology....
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