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20 Июл 2022

Автор:
Naomi Garcia, C4ADS

Ukraine: Chinese conglomerates’ export of weapon technologies to Russia contributes to ongoing aggression, new report says

Tom Fisk

Trade secrets: Exposing China-Russia defense trade in global supply chains, 15 July 2022

Chinese state-owned conglomerates trade in sensitive technologies with Russia's defense sector, including to companies involved in Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine. At a time when the People's Republic of China (PRC) has become the subject of heightened vigilance and new trade sanctions, evidence suggests that patterns of data censorship and convoluted corporate networks serve to obscure trade in defense-applicable technology. Whether or not the PRC's trade data environment is opaque by design, it ultimately conceals the networks of people and companies involved in the trade of military equipment and undermines global nonproliferation efforts.

C4ADS developed reproducible methods for detecting PRC weapons trade that overcome these challenges in China’s poor data environment...To demonstrate our methodologies in this report, we highlight three examples of previously undetected trade in defense products between a major Chinese state-owned conglomerate and Russia’s state defense sector. In doing so, we find the following:

  • PRC state-owned conglomerates proliferate to companies supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...
  • International import records provide actionable information about PRC defense shipments that is missing from China’s domestic trade data sources...
  • Corporate network analysis exposes proliferation activity by companies that may go undetected within the PRC’s complex commercial system...