Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, the largest lobbying firm by revenue in the United States, has yet to terminate its relationship with Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent nearly two weeks after the Defense Department designated it as a “Chinese military company,” public records show.
On Jan. 7, the Pentagon added Tencent to its list of entities that are either “directly or indirectly owned, controlled, or beneficially owned by” the Chinese military or that are “military-civil fusion contributor[s] to the Chinese defense industrial base.” Tencent, which has historically maintained close ties with the Chinese government, denies these allegations, and Brownstein, its U.S.-based lobbying partner has yet to file paperwork terminating the relationship between the two.
Brownstein filed its fourth-quarter lobbying report for Tencent on Monday with no indication
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