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4/Airwallex handles payments for tens of thousands of American companies, including in sensitive and critical fields like AI and national security. Airwallex markets itself as a harmless global company to unsuspecting payment processors like Zip, Brex, and Bill whose customers in turn include OpenAI, Anthropic, Coinbase, Databricks, Snowflake, Robinhood, Scale, and others. The data from those payments, which are handled internationally by Airwallex and are accessible to the CCP, include: - Supplier and vendor payments for AI labs that could be used to understand and infiltrate supply chains - Payroll / employee data for defense contractors, potentially revealing who is buying what from whom - DOBs, SSNs, addresses, etc. for employees and contractors of financial and crypto firms - Reimbursement accounts that reveal employee locations, travel patterns, activities Financial transaction metadata exposes supply chains, burn rates, hiring geography, vendor relationships, and procurement timelines. Obviously valuable intel for Beijing.