It doesn’t appear the US turbulence that the world’s largest maker of drones has faced for the past year is ending just yet, following a news report alleging DJI received direct funding from China’s state organizations despite its holding structure as a private, independent firm.
Claims of financial ties between DJI and Beijing were published by the Washington Post. The paper says it found references to such investments in “company reports and articles posted on the sites of state-owned and -controlled investors,” and in analyses by US video surveillance group IVPM. Those purported links would likely not generate more than passing interest if they hadn’t arisen amid enduring and increasingly worsening US-China relations. One consequence of those has been DJI, along with several other Chinese companies, having been added to blacklists under suspicions they represent data security threats.
In December, DJI was one of eight Chinese businesses…
