WuXi AppTec Sues Pentagon Over China Military-Company Designation

WuXi AppTec Co. Ltd., one of China’s largest pharmaceutical outsourcing companies, has sued the U.S. Defense Department in federal court in Washington, seeking to overturn the Pentagon’s decision to designate the company as a Chinese military company.

The Shanghai- and Hong Kong-listed company said in a filing Thursday that it filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on June 11, disputing the military-company designation as “erroneous and unsupported by the facts or the legal criteria under the applicable statutes and case law.”