US Sanctions 3 Chinese Firms For Providing Ballistic Missile Technology to Pakistan

US Sanctions 3 Chinese Firms For Providing Ballistic Missile Technology to Pakistan

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 State Department has announced.

The 3 companies have been identified as:

• Xi’an Longde Technology Development
• Tianjin Creative Source International Trade and Granpect Co. Ltd from China
• Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant from Belarus.
• 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.

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