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US lawmakers target Chinese military firms helping Russia with bill imposing ‘full blocking sanctions’

  • Legislation comes amid alarm in Washington over volume of material moving from Beijing to Moscow and said to be turning up on battlefields in Ukraine
  • ‘It’s time to put a financial cost on the CCP’s no-limits partnership with Russia,’ says outgoing chairman of key House select committee

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Republican congressman Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin is the outgoing chairman of the US House select committee on the Chinese Communist Party. Photo: Getty Images/TNS
Mark Magnierin New York
US lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a bipartisan bill that would impose sanctions on any Chinese military firm that provides material support to Russia.
The legislation comes amid growing alarm in Washington over the volume of material moving from China to Russia that the State Department says helps prop up Moscow’s economy and is being used to produce weapons turning up on battlefields in Ukraine.
“Any company aiding and abetting the horrors in Ukraine – as the Chinese defence industrial complex has done – deserves to experience the full force of American sanctions,” said Republican congressman Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, a bill cosponsor and outgoing chairman of the House select committee on the Chinese Communist Party.
“It’s time to put a financial cost on the CCP’s no-limits partnership with Russia.”

The bill, called the No Limits Act, would give Chinese military firms identified by the US government 180 days to withdraw from the Russian market before facing “full blocking sanctions”.

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