US slaps sanctions on five Chinese, North Korean 'proliferators'

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States has imposed sanctions on four Chinese entities, including a state-run firm, and one North Korean company for selling weapons or cruise and ballistic missile technology and equipment to Iran, the State Department said.


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It vowed to step up a crackdown on dangerous weapons proliferators through "sustained and high-level engagement" with the Chinese government.


"We're certainly not going to stand by idly while weapons proliferation programs are assisted," the State Department's deputy spokesman Adam Ereli told reporters.


Three of the five entities have been imposed penalties previously for the transfer to Iran of equipment and technology controlled under multilateral missile, chemical and nuclear weapons' export regulations.


"There are unrepentant proliferators out there and it's going to require a concerted, sustained effort to fight them," Ereli said.

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sounds like a sermon :eyes:

[NNN0LHI]

1. Isn't the US the biggest unrepentant weapons proliferator on earth?

Yea, I think it is. Christ, we even armed Saddam.

Don

[saigon68]

2. He was fighting the Ayatollah at the time

I think I saw a photo of a Cretin named Rumbdumb shaking his hand somewhere--

LOL

[drhilarius]

3. "China, we're gonna impose some sanctions on you...

Now, would you like to buy some T-bonds?"

[teryang]

4. Where did China get their ballistic missile technology?

Corporations owned in part by the Bush family.