{"id":5484,"date":"2025-02-11T19:41:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T19:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/chinese-companies-use-legal-threats-to-halt-foreign-research\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T19:41:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T19:41:25","slug":"chinese-companies-use-legal-threats-to-halt-foreign-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/chinese-companies-use-legal-threats-to-halt-foreign-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Companies Use Legal Threats to Halt Foreign Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A little over a year ago, a group of researchers at Sheffield Hallam University in England published a report documenting a Chinese clothing company\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/helena-kennedy-centre-international-justice\/research-and-projects\/all-projects\/eu-apparel\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">potential ties to forced labor<\/a>. Members of the British Parliament cited the report ahead of a November debate that criticized China for \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Commons\/2024-11-06\/debates\/7C4D516D-FC4F-4C8A-AC19-5BEC8D7769D8\/UyghurAndTurkicMuslimsForcedLabourInChina\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">slavery and forced labor from another era<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Smart Shirts, which is a subsidiary of the manufacturer and makes clothing for major labels, filed a defamation lawsuit. And in December, a British judge delivered a ruling: The case would move forward, which could result in the university\u2019s paying damages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The preliminary finding in the case against the university is the latest in a series of legal challenges roiling the think tanks and universities that research human rights abuses and security violations by Chinese companies. To stop the unfavorable reports, which have led to political debate and in some cases export restrictions, the companies are firing back with defamation accusations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Chinese companies have sued or sent threatening legal letters to researchers in the United States, Europe and Australia close to a dozen times in recent years in an attempt to quash negative information, with half of those coming in the past two years. The unusual tactic borrows from a playbook used by corporations and celebrities to discourage damaging news coverage in the media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The budding legal tactic by Chinese firms could silence critics who shed light on problematic business practices inside one of the most powerful countries in the world, researchers warn. The legal action is having a chilling affect on their work, they say, and in many cases straining the finances of their organizations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The problem has become so pronounced, the U.S. House of Representatives\u2019 Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/media-package-select-committee-ccp-holds-hearing-how-ccp-uses-law-silence-its\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">held a hearing on the issue<\/a> in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The researchers in these cases \u201care faced with a choice: Be silent and back down against the C.C.P.\u2019s pressure campaign or continue to tell the truth and face the tremendous reputational and financial costs of these lawsuits alone,\u201d the committee\u2019s chair, Representative John Moolenaar, a Michigan Republican, said at the hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He added, \u201cThe Chinese Communist Party uses the American legal system to silence those who might expose them in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The battle between Chinese companies and critical researchers has escalated as tensions have mounted between the United States and China over trade, technology and territory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Washington has taken steps to limit China\u2019s access to resources like chips needed for artificial intelligence, and in recent days the Trump administration <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/01\/us\/politics\/canada-mexico-china-trump-tariffs.html\" title=\"\">imposed a 10 percent tariff<\/a> on all Chinese imports. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/04\/business\/economy\/trump-tariffs-china.html\" title=\"\">Beijing countered<\/a> with measures including limits on the export of rare earth minerals and an antimonopoly investigation into Google.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Over the past decade, researchers \u2014 relying primarily on publicly available records and photographs and videos \u2014 have documented problematic business practices in China. Those reports have helped show how products made for American and European companies benefited from an epidemic of forced labor by minority ethnic Uyghurs in China. Researchers have also shed light on potential security flaws, raising national security concerns, as well as problematic connections between companies and the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, Chinese corporations are increasingly hiring Western lawyers to combat those types of reports over allegations of defamation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One of the first examples occurred in 2019 when Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications giant, threatened to sue the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, an Australian think tank. ASPI had released a report containing allegations that servers provided by Huawei to a coalition of African nations were sending data to Shanghai. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">China\u2019s embassy in 2020 gave the Australian government a list of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jekearsley\/status\/1328986579629613057\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">14 complaints<\/a> that it wanted addressed to improve relations between the countries. Grievances included Australia\u2019s funding of ASPI, something Huawei had lobbied to stop after its report. (As of 2024, the Australian government continued to fund the organization, according to the group\u2019s latest <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspi.org.au\/annual-reports\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">disclosures<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Huawei and China\u2019s embassy did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">ASPI remains a target of Chinese company threats over its research into topics including the use of forced labor. The think tank\u2019s legal costs, including staff time on Chinese-related legal matters, have risen from zero in 2018 to 219,000 Australian dollars, nearly 2 percent of its 12.5-million-dollar annual budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s mountains of legal letters, hassling, going around saying, \u2018We\u2019re going to sue,\u2019\u201d said Danielle Cave, a director at ASPI. \u201cIt\u2019s quite stressful, and it\u2019s designed to distract you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">More recently, companies have issued similar threats to researchers in the United States and Britain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Eric Sayers, who focuses on U.S.-Chinese technology policy at the American Enterprise Institute think tank, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dericsayers\/status\/1706748124054671801?s=61\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">received a letter<\/a> in September from lawyers demanding that he take down an opinion article he co-wrote about a Chinese drone company, Autel Robotics. The article, which was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/opinion\/2023\/09\/15\/dji-isnt-the-only-chinese-drone-threat-to-us-security-meet-autel\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">published by Defense News<\/a>, a trade publication, said Chinese-made drones posed a national security risk because they could map American infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Autel\u2019s representatives called the article \u201cdefamatory and damaging\u201d and threatened to sue if it wasn\u2019t removed, although they eventually dropped the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Sayers posted the letter on X as a warning to other researchers. He wrote that it was what Chinese government \u201clawfare inside our democracy looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In May, the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University published a report by Anna Puglisi, a researcher who had recently departed. The report said the Chinese government was most likely involved in funding the growth of BGI, a Chinese biotechnology company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a June letter, BGI accused Ms. Puglisi of making a defamatory claims and demanded that she retract the report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe remain disappointed by Ms. Puglisi\u2019s report, especially the numerous mistakes therein,\u201d BGI said in a statement to The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Puglisi went public with her experience during testimony before the House committee in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSpeaking out today may put me in further jeopardy,\u201d Ms. Puglisi told the committee, \u201cbut I feel that if we begin to self-censor ourselves because of the actions of an authoritarian regime, we become more like them and less like an open democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After Ms. Puglisi testified, Dewey Murdick, the executive director of her former think tank at Georgetown, said the organization stood behind her research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe conducted a careful review and found no evidence to contradict the report\u2019s findings or conclusions,\u201d he said in a post on LinkedIn. BGI has not taken legal action against Ms. Puglisi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In England, Sheffield Hallam University researchers contacted Smart Shirts in November 2023 as they prepared the report tying its parent company to forced-labor practices, according to legal documents. After some back-and-forth, during which the company denied the allegations, the university published the report in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a complaint filed with the British High Court that month, Smart Shirts said the report was false and jeopardized its business making shirts for brands like Hugo Boss, Ralph Lauren and Burberry. Smart Shirts said it believed that the allegations \u201chave spread via the grapevine effect\u201d among its customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">British defamation laws are more favorable to plaintiffs than the laws in the United States are, making Britain a popular place for individuals to sue news outlets and others over things that they write.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The university declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a statement to The Times, Smart Shirts said it welcomed supply chain research, but was disappointed that Sheffield Hallam had published the report without first allowing the company to correct inaccuracies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOur suit is aimed at addressing the material damage to our business arising from their misleading report,\u201d the company said. \u201cIt is not aimed at suppressing the important work of researchers in general.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" 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