00:00Chinese e-commerce and tech giant Alibaba has launched a legal challenge against the U.S. government
00:06seeking to be removed from a Pentagon blacklist over alleged ties to the Chinese military.
00:12The company says the designation is arbitrary and unjustified and violates its constitutional right to due process.
00:20The company has filed a lawsuit in a California federal court.
00:24The U.S. Defense Department said Alibaba is effectively linked to China's military-industrial complex
00:30through its compliance with Beijing's technology regulators.
00:34The blacklist also includes major Chinese tech firms such as Baidu, BYD and Tencent
00:40and bars U.S. Defense Department contracts from working with them from later this month.
00:45Alibaba stressed that its business is focused on retail and cloud computing, not military technology.
00:51The dispute comes as Washington steps up scrutiny of Chinese technology firms over national security concerns.
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