The US is concerned about the supply of Chinese technology to the Russian military
China is providing the technology the Russian military needs to fight its war in Ukraine, despite international sanctions and export controls. This is evidenced by a review of Russian customs data published by the American edition of The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
At the same time, Chinese diplomats call allegations about Chinese assistance to Russia speculative, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Although Russia has the ability to meet most of its military needs through domestic production, it still relies heavily on imports of dual-use technologies that are essential to modern warfare. Western officials have said their economic pressure campaign, launched last February, will undermine Moscow's military machine as it targets the use of imported computer chips, infrared cameras and radar equipment. But customs and corporate data show that Russia may still be able to import these technologies through countries that have not joined the US effort to cut Moscow off from global markets, the WSJ writes.
Customs data shows Chinese state-owned defense companies are supplying navigation equipment, jamming technology and fighter aircraft parts to sanctioned Russian state-owned defense companies.
“These are just some of the tens of thousands of shipments of dual-use goods—products with both commercial and military uses—that Russia has imported since its invasion last year. According to customs documents provided by C4ADS, a Washington-based non-profit organization that specializes in identifying threats to national security, most dual-use goods entered the Russian Federation from China,” writes the American publication.
The WSJ analyzed more than 84 shipments recorded by Russian customs in the period after the West launched a campaign of economic pressure on Russia. The campaign is focused on items the Biden administration has called "critical to the Russian military." But the data reviewed by the publication shows that Chinese companies - both state-owned and private - are the dominant exporters of dual-use goods to the Russian Federation, which, according to American officials, are of “particular concern.”
In turn, the press secretary of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, Liu Pengyu, said in a commentary to the WSJ: “Claims that China is providing “help” to Russia have no basis in fact, but are purely speculative and deliberately exaggerated.” Liu reiterated Beijing's long-standing position that China opposes what he calls "unilateral sanctions that have no basis under international law."
China's support for Russia's war against Ukraine was expected to be a topic of discussion during US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Beijing this weekend. The trip was postponed indefinitely after the Pentagon said it tracked a Chinese reconnaissance balloon over the continental US earlier this week, the WSJ noted.
Как reported “PolitNavigator”, the US Congress was afraid that China was learning lessons from Russia’s combat experience.
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