“We will continue to cut off entities that seek to evade our controls and act contrary to US national security,” Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper, South China Morning Post quoted Thea Roseman Candler, US Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Affairs on Tuesday morning.
The Commerce Department added Beijing Moreget Creative Technology for acquiring US-origin items related to aviation-simulation technology in support of China’s military modernization.
Hong Kong-based Small Leopard Electronics, along with the closely connected company Shenzhen Dragonfly Supply Chain, are added to the list along with three others namely, Detail Technology (HK), L-Tong Electronic Technology and Shenzhen Jiachuang Weiye Technology under the pretext of helping Iran’s drone programs.
The US Department of Commerce claimed that these companies are acting against US national security but Washington has, time and again, use its sanctions regime to target other countries such as China, Iran, Russia, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba among others.
The US Treasury also sanctioned entities and individuals in China and Russia last month under the pretext of the Ukraine war and taken new crippling measures against Iran’s oil sectors over the country’s retaliatory missile strikes on Zionist targets in the occupied Palestinian territories.
On Monday, the US Department of Justice also introduced new laws under the pretext of protecting the federal government or personal data of Americans against countries such as China, Russia and Iran through new restrictions over commercial transactions.
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