(Washington Composite) The United States announced sanctions against a private space company in China, saying that it provides Ukraine's satellite images to Russia to assist Russian mercenary organization Wagner Group in Ukraine.
The U.S. Treasury and the State Department announced a series of actions on Thursday (January 26), which aims to weaken Russia's combat capabilities in Ukraine.
The United States specifically mentioned that the Changsha Tianyi Space Science and Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd. and its Luxembourg Subsida, saying they provided them with "satellite images about Ukraine" to a Russian technology company so that the Wagner Group was launched.
China, as a Russian allies, did not provide military support to the Russian -Russian army, but some private enterprises in China believed that the United States believed that it was suspected of supporting the Russian army.People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that the U.S. government has negotiated with the Chinese government on this issue, hoping that China will take action to stop the aid of these Chinese companies.
Some Senator in the United States believes that unless China can curb important technologies related to Military and military application related to Russia, the United States should take sanctions in Beijing.
Menan Dez, chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, said that there is evidence that Chinese companies operate in Hong Kong, exporting military -civilian dual -use technology, including semiconductor chips, if China does provide key assistance to Russia, the United States should not give up to give upThe possibility of sanctioning China.
Senior Researcher Stocks of the New American Security Center pointed out that US officials are still evaluating how Beijing will respond to the support of Chinese companies to support the Russian army.He said: "Chinese enterprises have obviously violated regulations, and there is a problem that China has intentionally testing the bottom line of the US policy or purely unable to supervise Chinese enterprises that spread all over the industry."
The actions that weaken the Russian combat capabilities in the United States also include the official list of Wagner Group as a transnational criminal organization.The White House said a few days ago that Wagner sent about 50,000 combatants to fight in Ukraine, 80%of them were prisoners who were originally serving prisons in Russia, and they were for pardon.
