The name of a Chinese satellite company has returned again to the American accusation circle. After US officials who followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine found a worrying link between the Zhang Guang Satellite Technology Company and the Chinese army and supported by government funding, which was providing Russian fighters with high -resolution images from the battlefield, that company returned to appear.
But this time elsewhere, as the United States accused it of helping the Houthis in Yemen in targeting American warships in the Red Sea, hundreds of satellites
Especially since the company accused by Washington of supporting its opponents built a network of hundreds of satellites, according to “Wall Street Journal”.
The Zhang Guang Guang satellites can also monitor every corner of the United States, and some users in China have claimed that they took advantage of the network’s capabilities to take pictures of the latest American ghost bomber, linked to an air base in the Mohafi Desert in California.
The growth of Zhang Guang, and the increasing control it is exposed to by the United States, reflects Beijing’s efforts to exploit the vibrant civil technology sector to enhance its defensive industry.
It also highlights how China uses commercial companies to enhance its strategic interests. The company denies
Last week, the US State Department announced that Zhang Guang “is” directly supporting “the Houthi attacks on American interests. “Their actions and support for Beijing to the company, even after our own meetings with them, said another example of the empty Chinese allegations of peace support,” said the ministry spokeswoman, Tami Bruce, at the time.
But the spokeswoman did not explain what is the specific support that Washington suspected to provide to the Houthis.
On the other hand, Zhang Guangal denied these accusations, confirming that it does not deal commercially with the Houthis or their supporters in Iran, and describing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs being fabricated.
It is noteworthy that the administration of former President Joe Biden imposed sanctions on the company in 2023 on the suspicion that its industrial satellites helped the Palfuee Group in the Russian -Ukrainian war.
