{"id":958554,"date":"2025-08-29T11:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=958554"},"modified":"2025-08-29T11:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:55:11","slug":"united-states-secretary-of-defense-pete-hegseth-to-microsoft-you-cannot-use-chinese-coders-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/29\/united-states-secretary-of-defense-pete-hegseth-to-microsoft-you-cannot-use-chinese-coders-to\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to Microsoft: You cannot use Chinese coders to &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has reportedly asked Microsoft to review involvement of Chinese coders in managing cloud services for the Pentagon and US military. According to a report by TechCrunch, Hegseth has also directed the Department of Defense to conduct a separate investigation into the digital escort program and the role of Chinese Microsoft employees in it. In a declaration, Hegseth said \u201cFor nearly a decade, Microsoft has used Chinese coders, remotely supervised by US contractors to support sensitive Department of Defense cloud systems &#8211; and if you\u2019re thinking America First and common sense, this doesn\u2019t pass either of those tests\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has reportedly asked Microsoft to review involvement of Chinese coders in managing cloud services for the Pentagon and US military. According to a report by TechCrunch, Hegseth has also directed the Department of Defense to conduct a separate investigation into the digital escort program and the role of Chinese Microsoft employees in it. In a declaration, Hegseth said \u201cFor nearly a decade, Microsoft has used Chinese coders, remotely supervised by US contractors to support sensitive Department of Defense cloud systems &#8211; and if you\u2019re thinking America First and common sense, this doesn\u2019t pass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}