Alibaba Group condemned a report by the Financial Times citing a White House memo claiming Alibaba is helping the Chinese military target the US, according to a statement Alibaba sent to the Global Times on Sunday.
"The assertions and innuendos in the article are completely false," Alibaba Group said in the statement.
The FT report, citing a White House national security memo that includes declassified top-secret "intelligence," claimed that Alibaba provided tech support for Chinese military "operations" that the White House believes threaten US security.
However, the FT report neither specified which military capabilities or actions were involved nor mentioned what response measures the US intended to take, Zhang Xiaorong, director of the Beijing-based Cutting-Edge Technology Research Institute, told the Global Times on Sunday, adding that the memo is baseless speculation.
"We question the motivation behind the anonymous leak, which the FT admits it cannot verify. This malicious PR operation clearly came from a rogue voice looking to undermine President Trump's recent trade deal with China," the Alibaba statement read.
The FT said in its report that "it could not independently verify the claims" and said that "the memo did not specify what the PLA is alleged to be targeting in the US."
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