“We can confirm the report according to which Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co., LTD. (CGSTL) directly supports the Houthi terrorist attacks supported by Iran against American interests,” said the spokesperson for the State Department, Tammy Bruce
More specifically, CGSTL has provided targeting data and probably raw satellite images to the Houthis for their attacks on American Navy ships in the Red Sea.
China has not issued a clear official refusal of the State Department accusation.
At the moment, one thing is clear: the Chinese regime, despite the repeated warnings of Washington, is to help the militia based in Yemen to try to kill American sailors.
The Trump administration is expected to designate the Chinese regime as an enemi and impose costs accordingly.
CGSTL is a commercial company partly owned by the provincial government of Jilin and the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Chinese Academy of Sciences is a state research institution.
CGSTL said, the mission of “serving 7 billion people around the world with the remote sensing product integrating the sky, space and the field”.
Its customers include the worst elements of the world. In December 2023, for example, the American Treasury Department sanctioned the company, as well as Beijing Yunze Technology Co., for having provided “the high -resolution satellite observation imagery to the private military company designated” Wagner “” – the famous Wagner paramilitary group of Russia.
No company controlled by the State such as CGSTL, in the almost total surveillance state of China, could provide such data or imagery without the knowledge and approval of the Chinese Communist Party.
This means that the Chinese regime deliberately helped attacks against the Red Sea ships, including ships of the US Navy. “The support of Beijing, by the way, of this company, of the satellite company, even after having discussions with them – the fact that they continue to do so is unacceptable, certainly contradicts their claims to be supporters of peace,” said Bruce.
The Houthis began to attack the expedition to the Red Sea in October 2023 to support Hamas’ assault against Israel. The United States, Bill Gertz of Washington Times Reports, “initially sought Chinese help to organize an international coalition to protect expedition and counter attacks”.
Beijing refused the request and tried to reconcile with the militant group in a parallel agreement. Nevertheless, the Houthis attacked a Chinese ship last year. “The provision of satellite data used to identify us and other ships in the Red Sea for missile strikes seems to be part of an agreement between Beijing and the Houthis which would end attacks against Chinese expedition,” reports Gertz.
The United States has not announced sanctions on CGSTL when Bruce made its comments, so imposing these measures is the first thing to do.
However, China has isolated its companies from Washington measures. “It is time for the attribution,” an American retired brigadier told Gatestone Blaine Holt. “Look for the” Center of Gravity of Chang Guang “.
“Where do they banish?” Holt, which has participated in many Sino-Us Track II dialogues and has given conferences in China in universities and reflections, asked. “Where is the management team? Do they have children who study in the United States? What other business sections have?”
“The continuing assault of the Communist Party must inform the American government policy on the authorization of American companies to continue links with China,” he said. “We have to show force when they are so weak.”
The sanctions, however, should strike more than CGSTL.
On the one hand, the Chinese Communist Party, which should also be sanctioned, manages a unitary state and requires the absolute obedience of all parts of society. Companies and state research institutions can operate as separate entities and can have separate control institutions, but they are not separated. Washington must stop assuming that Chinese society is organized in the same way as that of America.
All Chinese entities should therefore be treated as a single organization. It is time for American officials to stop playing what has become of Whack-A-Mole sanctions.
“The United States will not tolerate anyone who supports foreign terrorist organizations, such as the Houthis,” said Bruce on the 17th.
Unfortunately, the United States has actually tolerated the support of Beijing for a long time to such groups, which means that it is time to change course and continue the hard Chinese diet. Among other things, President Donald Trump should invoke trade with the enemy law of 1917 and put an end to trade and investment links with China. The China regime, through its actions and words, is the American enemy.
“We have to stop China before pouring an American ship,” said Holt, reminding us what is at stake. “The moment to act is now.”
Gordon G. Chang is the author of Plan the red: the Chinese project to destroy America, A Gattone Institute distinguished the principal researcher and a member of his advisory council.
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