The Biden administration on Wednesday announced about 300 new sanctions against international suppliers of military equipment technology for helping Russia replenish weapons as it wages war in Ukraine.
The sanctions represent an expansion of U.S. efforts to disrupt the supply chain of Russia's military-industrial complex. That includes more than a dozen targets based in China, where the United States says it is increasingly helping Russia militarize. The Biden administration has expressed growing concerns about a weapons technology partnership between China and Russia. U.S. officials have expressed these concerns to Chinese officials in recent weeks.
“Today's actions further disrupt and undermine Russia's war effort by targeting Russia's military industrial base and the evasion networks that support its supply,” Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said in a statement Wednesday. It will happen,” he said.
The sanctions came after Yellen visited China last month and clashed with Chinese officials over aid to Russia. She warned that Chinese companies and financial institutions that facilitate support for the Kremlin's war effort will face penalties. The Treasury secretary said she had heard from the Treasury secretary that China has a policy of not providing military aid to Russia.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken expressed similar concerns about China during a separate trip last week.
“Russia will have a hard time sustaining its attack on Ukraine without Chinese support,” Blinken said at the end of the trip. “We have made it clear that if China does not address this issue, we will.”
The Chinese companies targeted by the sanctions are accused by the Treasury Department of providing Russia with infrared detectors, parts for Russian drones, and pressure sensors used in Russian missiles.
The sanctions, coordinated with the State Department, also include targets based in Azerbaijan, Belgium, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. Sanctions also target several Russian companies and individuals involved in procuring supplies for Moscow's chemical and biological weapons program, as well as importers of cotton cellulose and nitrocellulose, which the country uses to make gunpowder and rocket propellant. Ta.
The Treasury Department announced last year that the U.S. has the authority to crack down on banks and financial services companies that help Russia evade tough sanctions on access to military technology and equipment, after President Biden signed an executive order last year that gives the U.S. authority to crack down on banks and financial services companies that help Russia evade tough sanctions on access to military technology and equipment. We hope that the effect will be even greater. .