No. U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., joined Tucson-based World View Enterprises, a surveillance balloon company that does business with the U.S. government, shortly after it began operations in 2013. While World View received some early venture capital funding from Chinese company Tencent, which has ties to the governing Chinese Communist Party, the firm was not granted any control or input in exchange, World View CEO Ryan Hartman has said.
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