Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe · ¶64

Petitioner Cisco answered the CCP’s call with an aggressive campaign to secure the Golden Shield contract. Cisco’s CEO (and other senior executives) personally met with China’s President and other officials to discuss and “explicit[ly] support” “the Golden Shield’s douzheng objectives and goals.” App. 62. Internal files reveal Cisco’s “pledge to satisfy the repressive anti-Falun Gong purposes of the” program, while characterizing Falun Gong and its members as “‘viruses,’” “‘despicable,’” and an “‘evil cul[t]’”—all mirroring CCP propaganda denigrating Falun Gong members as “subhuman.” Id., at 20–21. Cisco’s public Chinese marketing materials also described the company’s “promis[e] to tailor the apparatus” to meet the CCP’s objectives, including “the douzheng of” Falun Gong. Id., at 22–23; see 73 F. 4th, at 710 (describing Cisco brochures offered at Chinese trade shows marketing its…

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