{"id":990183,"date":"2026-02-06T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990183"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:33:59","slug":"pentagon-asked-to-probe-spacex-for-potential-chinese-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/06\/pentagon-asked-to-probe-spacex-for-potential-chinese-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon asked to probe SpaceX for potential Chinese ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic US senators on Thursday urged the Pentagon to conduct \u200dan immediate review of SpaceX amid allegations that Chinese investors have secretly \u2060acquired stakes in the closely held rocket maker, citing potential national security risks, according to a letter seen by Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>Senators Elizabeth Warren and Andy Kim wrote \u200cto Defense \u200cSecretary Pete Hegseth, expressing concern that Chinese investment in SpaceX could present &#8220;a national security \u200cthreat, potentially jeopardizing key military, intelligence, and civilian infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic US senators on Thursday urged the Pentagon to conduct \u200dan immediate review of SpaceX amid allegations that Chinese investors have secretly \u2060acquired stakes in the closely held rocket maker, citing potential national security risks, according to a letter seen by Reuters. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Andy Kim wrote \u200cto Defense \u200cSecretary Pete Hegseth, expressing concern that Chinese investment in SpaceX could present &#8220;a national security \u200cthreat, potentially jeopardizing key military, intelligence, and civilian infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990183","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}