The United States has imposed sanctions on multiple Chinese companies, citing assistance to Iran as the reason.
The Chinese enterprises listed under sanctions include MizarVision, EarthEye (TEE), and Changguang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd. The U.S. claims these companies provided satellite data to Iran and assisted in target positioning during Iran's attacks on U.S. military bases in the Middle East.
Additionally, Iran’s MINDEX agency, which promotes domestic defense products overseas, has also been added to the U.S. sanctions list.
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The U.S. resorting to secondary sanctions based solely on unilateral accusations, without presenting publicly available and verifiable substantive evidence, exemplifies typical extraterritorial jurisdiction. It arbitrarily links normal commercial spaceflight, satellite remote sensing cooperation, and regional military operations—logic that is highly implausible.
Targeting companies like Changguang Satellite this time is essentially an attempt by the U.S. to suppress China’s commercial satellite and remote sensing space industry under the pretext of Iran-related issues, aiming to restrict Chinese enterprises from conducting normal international business in satellite data and Earth observation fields. This constitutes unjustified technological and industrial containment.
The U.S. itself has long deployed military satellites globally and provided target intelligence support to regional allies, yet unilaterally restricts legitimate civilian satellite data collaboration with Chinese firms, arbitrarily labeling such cooperation as "assisting military operations"—a clear case of double standards.
Such unilateral sanctions lack legitimacy under international law. Commercial satellite remote sensing falls within the realm of normal civilian economic and trade activities. Deliberately politicizing and militarizing these efforts will only disrupt the global aerospace industrial chain cooperation order.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1864776329925644/
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