‘Don’t trust Chinese drones’: UAV maker takes aim at tech rival’s origins despite its own ties to Pentagon

French electronics

French electronics maker Parrot has played into alarmist fears of the Chinese government’s purported all-encompassing surveillance in the pre-launch campaign for its new drone – despite itself working directly with the Pentagon.

Teaser ads for Parrot’s new launch takes clear aim at one of its competitors, the Chinese company DJI, with the strap lines “Don’t trust Chinese drones” and “Do you trust DJI drones?” The pointed barbs clearly draw on anti-China sentiments repeatedly being stoked in the West’s – and in particular America’s – growing war of words with the Asian nation.

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