U.S. puts sanctions on Chinese firms for aiding Tehran

THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | December 27, 2005 | By Bill Gertz

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Several Chinese companies involved in selling missile goods and chemical-arms materials to Iran have been hit with U.S. sanctions, Bush administration officials said yesterday.

The sanctions cover six Chinese government-run companies, two Indian firms and one Austrian company, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The penalties have been under consideration since April and were approved by Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick within the past several weeks.

An announcement will be published in the U.S. government's Federal Register in the next several days -- and perhaps as early as today, the officials said.

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THis may be the build-up to a new war. That would be sad, but that's how it worked w/ Japan, prior to WWII and with Iraq, prior to Iraqi Freedom.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

BUY AMERICAN

[F14 Pilot]

bump

[sure_fine]

and they got their missile tech from , WHO?

[.cnI redruM]

>>>six Chinese government-run companies, two Indian firms and one Austrian company

[Mark17]

and they got their missile tech from , WHO?

I don't know, Clinton maybe?

[Rennes Templar]

China and Iran, strange bedfellows, no? Is it just business, or do the Chicoms have more sinister motives?

[Liberfighter]

I wonder who the Iranians hired to get the oil out of Iran??

[SauronOfMordor]

THis may be the build-up to a new war.

I don't agree. I think this IS the new war.

Who has the most to gain from the US expending our military budget on the War on Terror, leaving little left to take on other threats? Who has the most to gain from our existing military being restructured to fight a Third-world IED/guerilla conflict rather than an opponent with a huge conventional army and credible air force?

I think when it all comes out, we fill find that a lot of the Islamist players were Chinese proxies

[penelopesire]

"THis may be the build-up to a new war."

Seems they have been sanctioned before....

"The officials said that three of the Chinese companies have been sanctioned in the past for illicit arms transfers -- CATIC, NORINCO and Zibo.
"NORINCO is a serial proliferator," one official said. "All these sanctions are for transfers to Iran."
The 2000 law requires the U.S. government to impose sanctions on companies or people that supply Iran with goods, services or technology related to nuclear weapons, missiles and toxic chemicals that can be used to make chemical arms.
Zibo is known to make glass-lined containers that can be used to make chemical weapons. CATIC and Norinco are involved in manufacturing missiles."

[servantboy777]

China is our enemy. I am taken back by Americans lack of understanding of China's motives.

Rapid military buildup over the last 15 years.
Currency manipulation.
Huge trade imbalance.
Coddling of U.S. corporations in the name of global trade.
Stamping out human rights activist and freedom of religion.
Clamping down on the Internet/freedom of media.
Forcefully engaging Taiwan to quell Independence.
Helping our adversaries militarily from nuke technology to advanced missile tech.
Deploying forward military bases all over the world disguised as shipping and trade. Panama canal, disputed islands from Japan to the Philippines.
Formidable spy and covert intelligence operations against America and her allies.
Internet hacking attacks formulated and carried out by the Chinese military to probe for weakness in corporate networks.

You can't believe everything you read or hear, but if you research long enough, multiple sources, you begin to see patterns that are largely ignored by our lawmakers until it slaps them in the face.

[illbenice]

and your car wont work!

[panaxanax]

Well said!! Too bad this isn't covered by the media. Hopefully, America will wake up before it's too late.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Ping.

[DoughtyOne]

Study the Clinton years long enough, and the picture comes into focus, but good! I have been utterly shocked to see the Republican indifference when it came to China (and Mexico as a matter of fact).

How much of North Korea's program was Chinese derived? How much of Iran's current program was Chinese derived?

China's playing for keeps, and our leaders seem to just be playing.

We prevented Russia form gaining a foothold in Central and South America, but don't seem to think anything of China gaining a foothold there.

[servantboy777]

It could already be too late. I don't want to sound like an alarmist or conspiracy nut but, the Chinese economy has grown at double digits for several years with no end in sight. The military buildup is financed at double digits from this booming economy.

Two recent articles touted first the HUGE trade deficit in the U.S. with China, the other article reported on the HUGE trade surplus that China enjoys with the U.S.

If you put it together and you will see the delta between the deficit and surplus further exaggerates the problem in that to overcome the deficit, you must first overcome the difference between the two. I'm no economics major, but thats the simple math to it all.

Congress has allowed U.S. corporations to sell out the American people in the name of globalization. Cheap labor is the game. More dollars at the bottom line.

The corporation in which I am employed is a 40 Billion dollar company (40 Billion). That's larger than the GDP of many small countries, yet it's not enough.

My corporation farms out to China on a regular basis and are accelerating the pace as most U.S. corps are.

Placing all of this manufacturing technology and capital in a foreign country that is our adversary is a very dangerous game.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Boycott China, not Japan! LOL

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Why, Halliburton, of course!

[demkicker]

I don't agree. I think this IS the new war. Who has the most to gain from the US expending our military budget on the War on Terror, leaving little left to take on other threats? Who has the most to gain from our existing military being restructured to fight a Third-world IED/guerilla conflict rather than an opponent with a huge conventional army and credible air force?

I think when it all comes out, we fill find that a lot of the Islamist players were Chinese proxies

Very insightful. And we cannot forget our enemy that we've got to fight right here at home in our own government: Democrats.

Remaining vigilant to prevent them from keeping our intelligence services and special ops from learning the truth is key.

[Rebelbase]

The only hedge on selling out the American economy in favor of globalism that provides a potential enemy with the resources to build up it's military to regional strike capacity is the nuclear threat.

And in doing that a whole new can of worms has been opened.