Tencent says it's not a Chinese military company and is willing to sue the US Department of Defense if it isn't removed from a blacklist

Isn't every chinese company part of CCP

Sues. Lawyers do discovery. Tencent refuses. Court fines Tencent in contempt, rules in favor of the government. Tencent tries to bribe Trump with something.

I agree with the US DoD. The large Chinese corporations are owned by CCP members and former PLA officers. Contain them until the PRC implodes.

Not a Chinese Military company. At least at this moment. If and when Xi decides that they want to use information gathered from Tencent for military purposes, they will. Nobody can or will stop him.

Every fucking Chinese company is required to be an arm of their government and provide them with any information they request. It's not even a question, they are an arm of the Chinese government. They can get fucked

almost as if it's never been about security but about sinophobia

Here's a list of websites China bans:

• Google
• YouTube
• Facebook
• Yahoo
• Wikipedia
• Marxists Internet Archive
• Reddit
• Fandom
• Netflix
• Zoom
• Blogspot
• Bing
• Instagram
• WhatsApp
• Twitch
• Roblox
• Steam Store
• Steam Community
• Spotify
• Messenger
• X
• LinkedIn
• Skype
• Tumblr
• Pinterest
• SoundCloud
• Signal Private Messenger
• Dropbox
• Pornhub
• XVideos
• Medium
• Dailymotion
• BBC
• The New York Times
• Vimeo
• The Guardian
• SlideShare
• Discord
• DeviantArt
• The Washington Post
• Nico Video
• Archive.org (Internet Archive)
• Bloomberg
• Flickr
• Wretch
• HuffPost
• The Wall Street Journal
• DuckDuckGo
• Scratch
• Reuters
• NBC News -TIME
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
• Bandcamp
• Technorati
• Archive of Our Own
• Viber
• South China Morning Post
• Plurk
• The Economist
• ABC
• Voice of America
• Radio Free Asia
• NBC
• PBworks
• The Epoch Times
• The Epoch Times (Chinese edition)
• HBO
• WION
• Hong Kong Free Press
• Apple Daily
• TikTok
• ChatGPT
• Rockstar Games
• GitHub
• Hugging Face
• Flipkart
• Zomato
• Clubhouse
• Swiggy
• Truth Social
• National Weather Service
• Kanzhongguo (English)
• Kanzhongguo (Chinese)
• Microsoft Copilot
• Telegram
• Voice of America (Chinese)
• Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher (by a famous anti-CCP Twitter poster)

Of course it’s not a military company, it’s an espionage company.

Oh my, the US military might have to change the name of the list to, "Foreign companies we're blacklisting for classified reasons". How terrible.

Discovery process, you say?

Keep it a note that having them listed as a Chinese military company could let US put pressure against open source groups to not collaborate with them; very similar to how US forced Linux Foundation to kick off decade old russian collaborators.

Cool, can we make the divest from American game studios now?

The DoD will pay its fines 500#s at a time.

Lol they cry like tankies when defederation talks begin.

Thus proving that Tencent is either stupid or is insulting our intelligence.

Come at me bro

Sure, go ahead and try to sue the single most powerful entity on the planet.