Chinese Drone Company Already Set to Elude Coming Ban

Congress intended the upcoming 2025 NDAA—the annual defense funding package—to seal off the country from DJI, the sanctioned Chinese drone company deemed a national security threat by the U.S. intelligence community that sells nearly 80 percent of unmanned aircraft flying in American airspace today. But business records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show that DJI has already set up a workaround to a measure in the defense package that will ban the Chinese company and its affiliates from selling any new drones in the United States. The records show that DJI has already positioned itself to continue selling its drones in the United States through a startup Texas company called Anzu Robotics, which claims to have no business relationship with DJI. Those revelations have congressional China hawks concerned that the law won't go far enough. Read Full Article »