DAVID GREENE, Host: NPR's Yuki Noguchi reports on how the takeover talk is raising some red flags.</s>YUKI NOGUCHI: Can Yahoo be a Chinese company? The prospect raises thorny issues not only because of Yahoo's stormy relationship with its subsidiary, but because of China's own checkered history using communications infrastructure for hacking, as well as monitoring the activities of its own citizens.</s>CHRISTOPHER WALL: And that raises not only just privacy concerns, but also law enforcement concerns. It raises national security issues.</s>YUKI NOGUCHI: Yuki Noguchi, NPR News, Washington.
Alibaba, China's largest search engine, may be trying to stage a takeover of Yahoo. The prospect raises thorny issues — not only because of Yahoo's stormy relationship with its subsidiary — but because of China's checkered history using communications infrastructure for hacking, as well as monitoring the activities of its own citizens.