News DJI sues Pentagon over 'Chinese military company' designation — seeking to protect its business and reputation

[Admin]

The lawsuit shows DJI taking a proactive stance as it confronts increasing pressure from Congress to ban its drones from operating in the U.S.

DJI sues Pentagon over 'Chinese military company' designation — seeking to protect its business and reputation : Read more

 

[Pierce2623]

I’m curious as to what court a Chinese company uses to sue the US DoD and how infinitely small the chances of success are. How does one make the US government take back a unilateral decision that only applies to the US?

 

[kjfatl]

As I understand it, all entities in China are owned by the government. Effectively all products purchased from China are purchased from the Chinese military. All data handled by a Chinese entity must be made available to the military, secretly, regardless of any contractual relations in a foreign county like the US or Germany.

The US courts know, or should know this. China is working the system so they can obtain facial recognition, gait recognition and DNA data of all inhabitants of the world.

 

[EzzyB]

I’m curious as to what court a Chinese company uses to sue the US DoD and how infinitely small the chances of success are. How does one make the US government take back a unilateral decision that only applies to the US?

There will be an American subsidiary, probably incorporated in the US. It's not uncommon at all and in the United States a corporation is treated as a person for such things.

 

[Co BIY]

I’m curious as to what court a Chinese company uses to sue the US DoD and how infinitely small the chances of success are. How does one make the US government take back a unilateral decision that only applies to the US?

Apparently US District Court in Washington, DC. Sounds like they accepted the filing paperwork. Doesn't mean it's going anywhere.

Apparently the Pentagon refused to talk to them about the designation for 18 months. Doubt they will get much satisfaction from the courts.

 

[Kondamin]

So can dji drones still be sold to the us public?
Adorama and b&h still sell dji and even after 18 months they don’t have anything in the same price range

 

[Pierce2623]

Apparently US District Court in Washington, DC. Sounds like they accepted the filing paperwork. Doesn't mean it's going anywhere.

Apparently the Pentagon refused to talk to them about the designation for 18 months. Doubt they will get much satisfaction from the courts.

Thanks. This is the answer I was looking for. The guy trying to tell me about a US subsidiary obviously misunderstood what I was asking.

 

[Kobietron]

If you want a DJI drone without the ban, you can get a $10,000 Anzu Raptor made in the good ole USA but completely based off the DJI Mavic.
I could understand if the concern really was the Chinese Government and there were similar priced alternatives to what DJI offers, but the truth is, there isn't. Who would pay $7,000-$10,000 for a Mavic?
They're trying to corner the technology market because they're failing in it. The only thing they can do is kill the competition.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Since there have been a couple of our members who simply can't, or won't, for whatever reason stay away from politics in accordance with the site rules, this thread is now closed and the offending posts removed. Thank you to those that followed the rules and stayed on topic.