{
  "id": 2959,
  "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3359638/alibaba-wins-reprieve-us-lobbying-after-pentagon-blacklisted-companies",
  "title": "Alibaba wins reprieve on US lobbying after Pentagon blacklisted companies",
  "summary": "Tech giant Alibaba Group Holding has secured a temporary legal reprieve that effectively allows it to resume lobbying in the United States, the latest development in its dispute with the Pentagon after the firm was included on a blacklist of companies deemed to support China’s military. A judge in the Northern District of California on Sunday ordered the Department of Defence not to enforce a lobbying prohibition against Alibaba while the court considered the firm’s constitutional challenge to..",
  "authors": "Ann Cao",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "military-security",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us,china",
  "published_at": "2026-07-06T15:18:49.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:11:46.979Z",
  "source_slug": "x-scmp-tech-hk-cn",
  "source_name": "SCMP Tech (HK/CN)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.scmp.com/tech",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2959",
  "original_url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3359638/alibaba-wins-reprieve-us-lobbying-after-pentagon-blacklisted-companies",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}