US sanctions 3 China firms on giving missile tech to Pakistan

News Agency nabakhabar — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 08:58:30 +0000

The US has imposed sanctions on three Chinese companies and one from Belarus for secretly supplying missile-applicable items for Pakistan’s ballistic missile programmes, including its long-range missile programme.

The names of the companies are Xi’an Longde Technology Development, Tianjin Creative Source International Trade and Granpect Co. Ltd from China and Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant from Belarus, the State Department has reported.

These entities “have engaged in activities or transactions that have materially contributed to, or pose a risk of materially contributing to, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or their means of delivery, including any efforts to manufacture, acquire, possess, develop, transport, transfer or use such items, by Pakistan,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Friday.

Mr Miller said the US is committed to strengthening the global nonproliferation regime by taking action to disrupt procurement networks supporting proliferation activities of concern.

The Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant in Belarus supplied special vehicle chassis to Pakistan’s long-range ballistic missile programme.

Such chassis are used as launch support equipment for ballistic missiles by Pakistan’s National Development Complex (NDC), which is responsible for the development of Missile Technology Control Regime Category (MTCR) I ballistic missiles, according to a State Department Factsheet.

China’s Xi’an Longde Technology Development Company Limited, supplied missile-related equipment, including a filament winding machine, to Pakistan’s long-range ballistic missile programme that the US said was destined for Pakistan’s NDC.

Filament winding machines can be used to produce rocket motor cases.

Tianjin Creative Source International Trade Co Ltd supplied missile-related equipment to Pakistan’s long-range ballistic missile programme, including stir welding equipment (which the United States assesses can be used to manufacture propellant tanks used in space launch vehicles), and a linear accelerator system (which the United States assesses can be used in the inspection of solid rocket motors).

Tianjin Creative’s procurements were likely destined for Pakistan’s Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), which develops and produces Pakistan’s MTCR Category I ballistic missiles, the US state department said.

Granpect Company worked with Pakistan’s SUPARCO to supply equipment for testing large-diameter rocket motors.

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Who stole Russia’s diplomatic property, Mr. Bolton? Moscow slams US ‘missile tech’ smear

News Agency nabakhabar — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 05:38:01 +0000

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova pointed to Russia’s diplomatic property seized by US authorities in response to remarks made by White House National Security Adviser John Bolton who accused Moscow of stealing US technologies.

“It will be interesting to do the math on how many and which innovations the United States has stolen from various countries around the world. That’s what I will do in my spare time. Send me interesting historical facts and contemporary data, and we will sum them up,” she wrote on her Facebook page on Friday.

“Since the issue of theft popped into John Bolton’s head, then I’ll remind him that Washington stole the buildings of the Russian Consulate General and the residence of Russia’s Consul General in San Francisco, the Russian trade mission in Washington, the residence of the Russian Consul General in Seattle, along with two Russian diplomatic facilities in Maryland and New York,” the diplomat emphasized. “However, what is way more significant, it kidnapped a large number of Russian citizens from third countries. Or is that not theft, Mr. Bolton? Then give them back.”

US National Security Adviser Bolton earlier claimed in an interview with Voice of America that Russia had stolen American technologies related to the development of hypersonic weapons.

Bolton raised eyebrows when touching on the recent tragic incident at a military test site near Severodvinsk where staffers from Russia’s civilian nuclear power corporation Rosatom and the Defense Ministry were killed in a blast by a liquid-propellant jet engine. He alleged that “although Russia’s economy is roughly the size of the Netherlands, it’s still spending enough on defense to not only modernize their nuclear arsenal, but to build new kinds of delivery vehicles, hypersonic glide vehicles, hypersonic cruise missiles, largely stolen from American technology.”

Diplomatic property spat

On September 2, 2017, US authorities closed down the Russian Consulate General in San Francisco and the Trade Mission in Washington, which are owned by the Russian government and enjoy diplomatic immunity. In addition, the New York office of the Trade Mission, which Russia had been renting, was shut down. Moscow described the US administration’s move as an overtly hostile act and urged US authorities to return these properties immediately.

On March 26, 2018, Washington announced the closure of the Russian Consulate General in Seattle (rented by Russia) and the residence of the Consul General (Russia’s diplomatic property).

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US sanctions 3 China firms on giving missile tech to Pakistan

Who stole Russia’s diplomatic property, Mr. Bolton? Moscow slams US ‘missile tech’ smear

Diplomatic property spat