Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the worldA Chinese satellite company linked to the country\u2019s military is supplying Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen with imagery to target US warships and international vessels in the Red Sea, according to American officials.The Trump administration has repeatedly warned Beijing that Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co Ltd, a commercial group with ties to the People\u2019s Liberation Army, is providing the Houthis with the intelligence, according to the US officials.\u201cThe United States has raised our concerns privately numerous times to the Chinese government on Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co Ltd\u2019s role in supporting the Houthis in order to get Beijing to take action,\u201d said a senior state department official. The official added that China had \u201cignored\u201d the concerns. He also told the Financial Times that CGSTL\u2019s actions and \u201cBeijing\u2019s tacit support\u201d despite Washington\u2019s warnings was \u201cyet another example of China\u2019s empty claims to support peace\u201d.\u201cWe urge our partners to judge the Chinese Communist party and Chinese companies on their actions, not their empty words,\u201d the official said.The concern about CGSTL comes amid a deepening trade war between the Washington and Beijing after President Donald Trump slapped huge new tariffs on imports from China, which are now subject to a 145 per cent levy.The Houthis started attacking vessels in the Red Sea, a critical maritime route for global trade and the US navy, after Israel launched a war against Hamas, another Iran-backed group, in 2023, in response to the Palestinian militant group\u2019s October 7 attack. The US has escalated attacks on the rebel group\u2019s positions in Yemen in recent weeks, including a large military strike that was the subject of the Signalgate leak and signalled an escalation of the campaign.China has expressed concern about the Houthis\u2019 attacks. The Biden administration urged Beijing to use its leverage with Iran to rein in the Houthis \u2014 but his officials saw no evidence that Beijing had done so.Trump has made tackling Red Sea instability a priority, amid concerns that the Houthis continue to pose a threat to the global economy.\u201cBeijing should take this priority seriously when considering any future support to CGSTL,\u201d said the US official.Asked about the US claims about the satellite company, the Chinese embassy in Washington said it was \u201cnot aware of the relevant situation\u201d.CGSTL has previously come under US scrutiny, and was among groups hit by sanctions in 2023 for allegedly providing high-resolution satellite imagery to Wagner Group, the Russian mercenary army that helped President Vladimir Putin prosecute his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.The Chinese company was established in 2014 as a joint venture between the provincial government in Jilin and a branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Changchun, the province\u2019s capital.\u201cChang Guang is one of a handful of \u2018ostensibly\u2019 commercial Chinese satellite companies that are in fact deeply embedded in the military-civil fusion ecosystem, supplying global surveillance capabilities to both civilian and military customers,\u201d said James Mulvenon, an expert on the Chinese military and intelligence services at Pamir Consulting.Under China\u2019s military-civil fusion programme, companies must share technology with the PLA when ordered by the government. Matthew Bruzzese, a China defence expert at BluePath Labs, a consulting firm that works with the US government, last year said CGSTL had 100 satellites in orbit, although it plans to have 300 by the end of 2025 which would enable it to take repeat images of any location in the world every 10 minutes.Bruzzese said CGSTL had \u201cclose connections\u201d to the Chinese government, communist party and military. But he there were fewer public mentions about its PLA ties from 2020, suggesting that it had \u201cbecome more wary of publicly discussing these connections\u201d. The US has in recent years imposed sanctions on dozens of Chinese commercial groups with alleged connections to the military.Bruzzese added that CGSTL had provided briefings to senior Chinese officials about its applications, including those for \u201cmilitary intelligence\u201d and had demonstrated its technology before several top PLA officers, including Zhang Youxia, the top general in the Chinese military who is second-in-command after President Xi Jinping.US concerns about CGSTL come as the Pentagon increasingly focuses on Chinese military activity in space. The Pentagon has said China put 200 satellites in orbit in 2023, second only to the US. It added that Beijing was also exporting its satellite technology, including domestically developed remote-sensing satellites \u2014 the same kind of technology being deployed by CGSTL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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