<i>"...six Chinese companies Washington says are closely linked to the Chinese Communist Party"</i><p>There is no Chinese "company" that is *not* closely linked to the CCP.<p>There is no legal basis for any individual or "company" in China to defy the CCP. Don't take my word for it --- ask Jack Ma --- if you can find him.<p>Any assumption to the contrary is merely a senseless projection of western norms onto a society where they carry no weight.
The only listed source for this information is "two people who declined to be named." All the rest is speculation.<p>This is either crappy journalism, or a planted story, or AI, or maybe all three.