The Treasury Department sanctioned three Chinese satellite imagery firms on May 9, 2026, after determining they supplied targeting intelligence to Iran that enabled military strikes on American forces in the Middle East, according to Bloomberg Politics.
This is not a trade dispute. This is a foreign government's commercial sector providing battlefield advantage to an enemy actively hitting U.S. servicemembers. Eisenhower warned us in 1961 that entangled interests — military, commercial, and foreign — could erode the republic's ability to defend itself with clear eyes. He was right.
The men and women who raised their right hand swore an oath to defend this nation. The least the republic owes them is a government that names who handed the enemy the map — and holds every link in that chain to account.