Chinese company Apple has been lobbying for called 'ticking time bomb' in America

Apple has reportedly been lobbying the US government to approve memory chips from Chinese chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT). Meanwhile, the company is now facing growing scrutiny in Washington after a senior US government source described it as "a ticking time bomb for national security," with bipartisan lawmakers preparing to seek a formal national security investigation following its stock market debut.According to a report by the New York Post, at least half a dozen members of Congress are expected to urge the Trump administration to examine whether Beijing played a role in CXMT's initial public offering (IPO). A separate senior US government source described the chipmaker as being deeply embedded in "the Chinese industrial military complex," calling its rapid expansion "a ticking time bomb for national security."The move comes weeks after the Pentagon added CXMT to its list of Chinese military companies operating in the United States.