On December 21, local time, the U.S. Department of Commerce published its first list of military end-users, including 58 Chinese and 45 Russian companies, on its official website. At this time, the U.S. government has determined that the risk of these entities using or diverting controlled products for “military end use” or to “military end users” in China, Russia or Venezuela is unacceptable and, therefore “It is therefore necessary, in the view of the United States, to “combat the diversion of U.S. technology by China (Communist Party of China) and Russia to their destabilizing military programs. This also means that the 103 Russian and Chinese companies on the list will be restricted from purchasing a wide range of U.S. goods and technologies.
In response to the new list of U.S. sanctions, the Chinese Foreign Ministry, as usual, was verbally tough, saying it “resolutely opposes” and “urges the U.S. side to stop its wrongdoing” and that “China will take all necessary measures “, and so on. In fact, the CCP knows full well that no matter how much the CCP opposes, the sanctions already issued by the Trump administration will not change, and more sanctions will arrive unannounced. As for the Chinese Communist Party’s so-called taking all necessary measures, it will not just be a stern and weak effort to fool the deluded people at home, but the Chinese Communist Party has no strength to fight back against the United States, except using some dirty and unseemly means.
In fact, this latest list of sanctions is not a small blow to the Chinese Communist Party, because the vast majority of Chinese companies on the list are involved in the aerospace sector, closely related to aerospace research and development, manufacturing, materials, engines and so on.
For example, the Aerospace Academy of Solid Propulsion Technology (AASPT); eight organizations under the China Aero Engines Group Corporation: Aero Science & Technology Co. Ltd, Aero Power Co. Ltd, Beijing Aviation Academy, China Gas Turbine Division, AVIC Commercial Aircraft Engines Co. Ltd, Harbin Dongan Engine Co. Ltd, Shenyang Yang Liming Aero Engines Co. Ltd and Southern Industry Co. Anhui Yingliu Aero Source Power; seven organizations under China Aviation Industry Corporation: AVIC Chengdu Aircraft Industry (Group) Co., AVIC Flight Automatic Control Research Institute, AVIC General Aircraft South China Industry Co., AVIC Zhejiang General Aircraft Research Institute Co., AVIC International Holdings Ltd. and AVIC Leihua Electronics Technology Research Institute; Beijing Aviation Lever Precision Co. Ltd. and Bemtec Materials Co., Ltd; and Shanghai Aerospace Equipment Co., Ltd, Shanghai Aircraft Design & Research Institute, Xi’an Aircraft Industry Co., Ltd. and Xi’an Xiafei Aviation Manufacturing Technology Co.
Such a wide range of targeted sanctions means that all of these Chinese companies on the list will be unable to purchase products, technologies, and services from the United States, including those related to aerospace, whether for military or civilian use, meaning that the CCP has suffered a major setback in using U.S. products and technologies as a fast track to developing aerospace technology.
In the case of the C919, China’s purportedly “autonomous” first civilian aircraft, which Xi Jinping deemed the country’s achievement of the year in 2016 and which received much attention, after its first test flight in 2017, the CCP’s CCTV admitted in a report that the outside “shell” of the C919’s nose, fuselage, tail and wings ” came from Chinese companies such as Chengfei, Hongdu, Shenfei and Xifei, while other key parts such as power, avionics and flight control came from foreign companies, especially American ones. After the release of the latest list of U.S. sanctions, it is feared that the support from U.S. companies for the CCP’s Commercial Aircraft Group will be suspended, and the good hopes that the CCP aspires to produce large aircraft on its own will be extinguished.
More importantly, the sanctions list is also aimed at curbing the development of the Chinese Communist Party’s power in space at a time when the United States is upgrading the status of the Space Force and developing space power. As early as March 2007, Hudson Institute research scholar Mary C. Fitz-Gerald pointed out in a special report published by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission that the Chinese Communist Party has been secretly building a blueprint for controlling space during the past decade or so of military modernization in an attempt to gain dominance over global space warfare in the 21st century, and that the Chinese Communist Party has become the biggest threat to global space warfare. The CCP has become the biggest threat to global space warfare.
According to Fitzgerald, the CCP is developing its military space warfare capabilities and technologies for at least two purposes: (1) developing powerful launch vehicles to carry digital reconnaissance satellites for all-weather space image reconnaissance; and (2) developing new-generation solid-fuel rockets to carry microsatellites to build space networks with precise positioning, communication, and electromagnetic jamming and reconnaissance functions. The CCP has invested heavily in the development of space, space information warfare, space electronic warfare, anti-satellite warfare, anti-missile warfare, and integrated anti-space and anti-aircraft warfare, and many of the technologies and products it needs are obtained or stolen from U.S. companies through companies with a CCP military background or some companies participating in civil-military integration programs. Therefore, curbing the development of the Chinese Communist Party’s military power, including in space power, is an inevitable option for the Trump administration.
In fact, after Trump saw the evil face of the CCP, and after soberly realizing the danger and threat that the CCP poses to the United States, it has unrelentingly offered one heavy-handed initiative after another, especially the targeted sanctions for more than a month, which have overwhelmed the CCP authorities.
In addition to the latest sanctions, other sanctions include: i. Targeting companies with a CCP military background and financing in the U.S. to prevent the CCP from accessing funds from the U.S. On November 12, a statement from President Trump was released on the White House website, the core of which is that Trump will continue the national emergency declared by Executive Order 12938, as amended, for one year in accordance with the Constitution, and the full title of the Executive Order is “Executive Order on Responding to the Threat of Portfolio Investment in the Financing of Chinese Communist Military Enterprises,” which aims to respond to the Chinese Communist Party by prohibiting any U.S. person from entering into any transaction with publicly traded securities, or any derivative securities, of any Chinese Communist military enterprise, or securities designed to provide investment risk, beginning in early January of next year “growing threat to U.S. capital development.”
To date, the U.S. Department of Defense has designated 31 Chinese companies supported by the CCP’s Department of Defense, including 20 top Chinese companies such as China Telecom, China Mobile, huawei, China Aviation Industry Corporation, China Railway Construction Group, China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, Panda Electronics Group, and Hikvision, as companies owned or controlled by the CCP’s military. The aforementioned companies are being abandoned by the world’s capital markets, and this means that the CCP, which has been colluding with Wall Street and major U.S. companies and circling money in the U.S., is losing blood and further losing funds to drive economic development and military development.
Secondly, the blacklisting of leading chip manufacturing companies SMIC, China National Offshore Oil, China Construction Technology Corporation and China International Engineering Consulting Corporation makes it difficult for the CCP to obtain high-end chips as SMIC will enter a period of decline in the future, just like Huawei and ZTE which have been sanctioned long ago. On the other hand, the CCP has also been hit in the oil and construction markets.
Third, targeted sanctions against senior CCP officials, human rights violators and visa restrictions on CCP members, with a view to dismantling the CCP from within. These include sanctions against all 14 vice chairmen of the CCP’s National People’s Congress and their family members; sanctions against Yin Guoju, the leader of the “14K” organized crime group of the CCP’s Triad and a member of the CCP’s People’s Political Consultative Conference; and sanctions against Huang Yuanxiong, the head of the Wucun police station of the Xiamen Public Security Bureau, for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in China. Restrictions on visas to the United States for members of the Chinese Party and their immediate families, visas for CCP United Front Workers who coerce and bully those who oppose Beijing’s (CCP) policies, and visas for CCP officials and their family members who are deemed responsible for or complicit in policies or actions that suppress people of religion and belief, members of ethnic minorities, political dissidents, human rights defenders, journalists, labor organizers, civil society organizers, and peaceful demonstrators. visas for members of their families.
Trump’s series of unrelenting sanctions hit the CCP where it hurts. A few days ago at the CCP’s Central Economic Work Conference, Xi Jinping mentioned the word “neck” when talking about the two key tasks of “enhancing the independent controllability of the industrial chain supply chain” and “solving the problem of seeds and arable land. “The word, the meeting called for “as soon as possible to solve a number of ‘stuck neck’ problem”.
However, the United States in the chip, aerospace industry and other aspects of the neck, the Chinese Communist Party in the economic, military, financial and other aspects of containment, the Chinese Communist Party has a way to solve their own? The answer is obviously no, and soon when more U.S. sanctions are offered, such as sanctions against major Chinese Communist Party banks, and more companies are included in the sanctions list, the CCP can only add pain to pain.
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