This is interesting in how vehemently all the companies are denying everything. I am pretty clueless about how the feds work so I'll ask: is it possible they would be violating secrecy laws or leaking classified info if they acknowledge this really happened? Could they already be under NDAs or whatever the equivalent is in the national security world?

Or is it simply a matter of their shareholders having lofty expectations about tapping the biggest market in the world (China) and saying anything that angers China is the worst thing you could possibly do from a PR perspective?