Published: 5:20am, 13 Sep, 2019 Updated: 5:20am, 13 Sep, 2019
Lawmakers have asked the Pentagon for names of companies in the US which are owned by the Chinese military, in a bid to stop the alleged theft of military technology. Democrat and Republican representatives have said the Chinese buy US firms to transfer “proprietary information”. They have used a provision in the National Defence Authorisation Act of 1999 to demand the list. In 2018, a Pentagon report had said that because it dominated the global supplies of rare earth minerals, electronics and chemicals, China was a risk to the supply of materials and technologies needed for US national security.