Pentagon says Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and Unitree support China’s military
Pentagon says Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and Unitree support China’s military
五角大楼称阿里巴巴、百度、比亚迪和宇树科技支持中国军方
The Pentagon has added Alibaba, Baidu, EV-maker BYD, and buzzy robotics company Unitree to a list of entities it says support the Chinese military. The expansion of the list increases the chance that the Department of Defense could make it harder for U.S. companies to do business with these entities. 五角大楼已将阿里巴巴、电动汽车制造商比亚迪、百度以及备受关注的机器人公司宇树科技（Unitree）列入其认定的支持中国军方的实体名单。该名单的扩大增加了美国国防部限制美国企业与这些实体开展业务的可能性。
It’s also likely to further strain the tension between the U.S. and Chinese governments. The list — known as the 1260H list, for the specific section of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act that created it — is just one tool that the U.S. has used to place restrictions on Chinese tech. 此举也可能进一步加剧美中两国政府之间的紧张关系。这份名单被称为“1260H清单”（源于2021年《国防授权法案》中设立该名单的具体条款），是美国用于限制中国科技发展的工具之一。
President Donald Trump has used tariffs in both of his terms to put pressure on China, including a 100% tax on imported Chinese EVs. This particular update to the 1260H list was briefly published in February, before being pulled from the Federal Register for unexplained reasons, as Bloomberg News notes. 唐纳德·特朗普总统在其两个任期内都曾利用关税向中国施压，包括对进口中国电动汽车征收100%的关税。据彭博社报道，此次对1260H清单的更新曾于2月份短暂发布，随后因不明原因从《联邦公报》中撤回。
Most of China’s biggest artificial intelligence players are now on the list, with Tencent added last year. This comes as Trump has said he’s weighing whether the U.S. should take equity stakes in the country’s top AI companies. The updated list now includes 188 companies. 目前，中国大多数顶尖的人工智能企业均已在名单之列，腾讯也于去年被加入。与此同时，特朗普曾表示正在权衡美国是否应入股中国顶尖的AI公司。更新后的名单目前包含188家公司。
The Pentagon added a handful of automotive industry players to the list this year. In addition to BYD, trendy EV company Nio and battery companies CALB Group and EVE Energy were added. RoboSense, one of China’s leading makers of lidar sensors, has joined its rival Hesai on the list, too. Baidu is also one of China’s leaders in autonomous vehicles. 五角大楼今年还将多家汽车行业参与者加入名单。除比亚迪外，热门电动汽车公司蔚来（Nio）以及电池制造商中创新航（CALB Group）和亿纬锂能（EVE Energy）也被列入。中国领先的激光雷达传感器制造商之一速腾聚创（RoboSense）也与其竞争对手禾赛科技一同上榜。百度同时也是中国自动驾驶领域的领军企业之一。
Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, Nio, and RoboSense did not immediately respond to requests for comment. 阿里巴巴、百度、比亚迪、蔚来和速腾聚创未立即回应置评请求。