{"id":1843574,"date":"2023-02-11T15:50:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T20:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1843574"},"modified":"2023-02-11T15:50:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T20:50:40","slug":"u-s-takes-action-against-chinese-companies-linked-to-spy-balloon-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-takes-action-against-chinese-companies-linked-to-spy-balloon-program\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Takes Action Against Chinese Companies Linked To Spy Balloon Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-takes-action-against-chinese-companies-linked-to-spy-balloon-program%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1843574&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Six U.S. citizens have been sanctioned by the U.S. government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chinese<\/a> aerospace companies over their purported involvement in the communist country\u2019s spy balloon program.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/commerce-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Commerce Department <\/a>Announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/public-inspection.federalregister.gov\/2023-03193.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanctions<\/a> Friday: Less than a week following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-s-air-force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Air Force<\/a> Shot down a Chinese surveillance ballon over the Atlantic Ocean, which had crossed the continental U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PRC\u2019s [People\u2019s Republic of China] use of high-altitude balloons violates our sovereignty and threatens U.S. national security,\u201d Alan Estevez is the undersecretary for commerce for industry security. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/02\/10\/us-sanctions-six-chinese-tech-companies-for-supporting-spy-balloon-programs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a> In a statement \u201cToday\u2019s action makes clear that entities that seek to harm U.S. national security and sovereignty will be cut off from accessing U.S. technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Entity List will include the six Chinese entities mentioned. This list is where trade restrictions are placed for companies that have been found to be in danger of national security.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In China, the entities are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us-imposes-sanctions-on-6-chinese-firms-over-spy-balloon-programs_5050940.html?ea_src=frontpage_A_topstory&#038;ea_med=lead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ask a question<\/a> Beijing Nanjiang Aerospace Technology is, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation 48th Forschung Institute, Dongguan Lingkong Remote Sensing Technology and Eagles Men Aviation Science and Technology Group are, Shanxi Eagles Men Aviation Science and Technology Group and Guangzhou Tian-Hai-Xiang Aviation Technology.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Epoch Times several companies have collaborated with the Chinese military on projects. One of these companies creates stratospheric aircraftships.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commerce Department will not hesitate to continue to use the Entity List and our other regulatory and enforcement tools to protect U.S. national security and sovereignty,\u201d Don Graves, Deputy Secretary of Commerce, stated.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Axelrod, a Commerce Department official, stated that the government took action to stop the spread Chinese balloon surveillance programs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s action demonstrates our concerted efforts to identify and disrupt the PRC\u2019s use of surveillance balloons, which have violated the airspace of the United States and more than forty countries,\u201d He said.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force also receives the sanctions the same day. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-information-released-about-object-u-s-military-shot-down-over-alaska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shot down<\/a> An unidentified object was seen above Alaska, less than a week following the Chinese balloon incident. It is not known if this object is Chinese in origin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the object flew at around 40,000 feet making it a danger to civilian aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no further details about the object at this time, including any description of its capabilities, purpose, or origin,\u201d said Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder. \u201cThe object was about the size of a small car, so not similar in size or shape to the high-altitude surveillance balloon that was taken down off the coast of South Carolina.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government has moved to sanction six Chinese aerospace companies over their purported involvement in the communist country\u2019s spy balloon program.\u00a0 The Commerce Department announced the sanctions on Friday, less than a week after the Air Force shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon over the Atlantic Ocean that had traversed the continental U.S.\u00a0 \u201cThe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1843577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4625,17453,4117,6997,5952,6644,6893,4259,7238],"class_list":["post-1843574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-action","tag-balloon","tag-chinese","tag-companies","tag-linked","tag-program","tag-spy","tag-takes","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1843574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1843577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}