Posted on 02/11/2025 11:39:01 AM PST by RoosterRedux
A defense contractor that supplies parts for American military aircraft and advises the U.S. government on supply chain security is owned by an immigrant with extensive ties to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence and influence agencies, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has found.
The Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded tens of millions of dollars in defense contracts for fighter jet, attack helicopter and guided missile launcher parts to S&L Aerospace Metals LLC, a New York-based company that serves on a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) council on critical manufacturing. However, S&L’s CEO Jerry Wang — whose Chinese name is Wang Jue — has been identified as an official for multiple CCP influence and intelligence organizations in Chinese government and state media reports, raising concerns about the defense contractor’s connections to Communist Party elites — including Chinese dictator, Xi Jinping.
Through an attorney, Wang denied any ties to “foreign political entities,” but did not deny being photographed at numerous Chinese government and CCP intel agency functions alongside high-ranking Party officials.
“Allowing someone with Wang’s background access to the inner workings of U.S. supply chains and critical manufacturing vulnerabilities is a glaring national security failure,” said L.J. Eads, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence analyst, after reviewing the DCNF’s findings. “It’s incredibly naive to think that the CCP is going to play by the rules when we hand them a front-row seat to our most sensitive industries.”
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Wonderful. /sarc
All the bad people seem to get security clearances with no trouble at all (and they keep them forever). Decent, law-abiding people who just want to do the job get pulled through the wringer on a regular basis. You might get a clearance, you might not.
All stemming from the Clintoons and Bushes totally opening the “business-to-business” spigot with the CCP. They sold the whole idea on their self-invented myth that economic engagement would lead to poltical liberalization. That was either a myth they believed in or what they knew was a fraud they were selling to the American people.
Sum Ting Wong.
Not surprising considering the amount of Chinese counterfeit parts on us military aircraft.
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