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Lawmakers Ask to Designate Deepseek, Xiaomi as Aiding Chinese Military

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The DeepSeek logo, in this illustration taken on Jan. 29, 2025. Dado Ruvic/ReutersNine lawmakers have sent a letter to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth asking him to add several Chinese technology companies to a list of firms kept by the department for allegedly aiding the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) military.The Dec. 18 letter regarding these nonmilitary technology firms said they are contributing to the “modernization, internal-security operations, and power-projection capabilities” of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

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