Google denies working with China’s military

A Google executive on Tuesday denied allegations that the company works with the Chinese military, one day after President Trump said that his administration would investigate claims of improper ties between China and Google.

Karan Bhatia, Google’s vice president of global government affairs and public policy, emphasized during a Senate hearing that Google has little business in China and denied the company has any ties to its military.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked Bhatia if Google has found “any evidence of infiltration of your management or your private data by Chinese intelligence.”

“Absolutely not, senator,” Bhatia said.

He said the company has never consulted with China about any of Google’s contracts with the U.S. government and denied allegations that it has turned a blind eye to a leak of its “private data” to Chinese intelligence.

“Absolutely not,” Bhatia maintained. “We take extremely seriously the threat of any penetration of our systems.”