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The Event On June 4, 2026, a former DingTalk product manager named Teng Yaxin published a 75,000-character letter on Alibaba's internal forum titled "Standing Inside the Nail" (置身钉内). It was a comprehensive postmortem of DingTalk's flagship AI product, ONE — a project that went from concept → 3M...
A comparison of China electronics sourcing platforms — what each is for, who uses them, and how to avoid the common mistakes on each. There are six main platforms buyers encounter when they start sourcing electronics from China. They look similar from the outside — product listings, supplier pr...
The Pentagon has barred Chinese tech giant Alibaba, electric car maker BYD and search engine Baidu from getting U. S. defense contracts by adding them to its list of Chinese military companies operating in America.
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The Defense Department has released an updating list of companies linked to the Chinese military, and it now includes Alibaba and Baidu.
The Pentagon added tech giants Alibaba and Baidu and carmaker BYD to a blacklist of Chinese companies with military ties amid widening competition between the world’s two largest economies. Drug maker WuXi AppTec, robot company Unitree and carmaker Nio were among other businesses added to the 12...
The Pentagon has added several prominent Chinese businesses to its list of Chinese military companies. The move prevents them from securing U. S.
Chinese embassy in Washington, DC, condemns designation, calling it 'discriminatory'.