Author: Philip Lenczyki
On Tuesday, the Republican Senator Iowa Ernst asked the Department of Defense (DOD) to examine the American defense contractor belonging to a person with extensive connections with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and influential agencies, in accordance with the letter obtained only by the Daily Caller News News Foundation.
Ernst’s letter He calls DO to the control “and, if necessary, suspend or cancel all contracts” with the New York S&L Aerospace Metals LLC, which received about $ 60 million in defense contracts and subcontracting to produce a fighter, attack helicopter and parts of rocket startups. Letter Cites The investigation of DCNF in February 2025, in the case that Chinese government and state reports were identified by the CEO of S&L, Jerry Wang, as an official of many organizations of CCP influence and intelligence.
“S&L, entirely belonging to Wang, apparently produces and provides key elements of American aircraft and weapons, including components for F-16 and F-35 rhinestones, Seahawk and Black Hawk Helicopters and civil missiles,” we read a letter from Ernst, which is the Senate of the Government Department (Dogs). “This raises serious fears that the Chinese communist party can use Wang’s position to gain access to sensitive or even classified national security information.”
From the time he became the general director of S&L in 2001, DCNF has announced that many organizations run by CCP Intelligence and the Chinese influence arm called The United Front Work Department (UFWD) identified Wang as a member.
UFWD operations are a “mixture of commitment, impact on intelligence activities and operations, which [CCP] is used to shape your political environment, including impact on the policy of other countries towards [People’s Republic of China] and access advanced foreign technology “, According to to the House selection committee for CCP.
“Wang served as the” director “of the Chinese Friendship Association of Foreign (Chaa), the key body of UFWD. “Apparently, he is a” member of the foreign committee “and” deputy director “of another United Front Organ, the Federation of China of returned foreign Chinese.”
The S&L spokesman told DCNF in February that Wang did not belong to any organizations serving CCP or UFWD, and Wanga’s lawyer also insisted that his client had no connections with foreign political entities after DCNF asked about some 13 photos from the imagination of the functions of the Chinese government.
However, asked if Wang denied in these photos, Wanga’s lawyer replied: “No.”
A few of these photos show Wang during New York Welcome Events for XI, including a photo from May 2006 showing Wanga handing the XI statue of the bald eagle, DCNF said earlier. Other photos show Wang with Chinese intelligence officials, such as the head of the Federation of All-China Federation of Returnd of Foreign Chinese.
Ernst’s letter describes Wang’s apparent Chinese ties as “alarming case of a suspicious Chinese proxy infiltrating our defense supply chain, posing a serious threat to national security.”
“The Chinese communist party infiltrating the supply chains of our troops is a serious threat to national security,” said Ernst DCNF. “We need a full audit in the Pentagon to make sure that not a single defense dollar enriches a foreign opponent.
Ernst’s letter also asks a pentagon half a dozen questions related to the verification process.
One such question asks if Dod was aware of Wang’s perceptible connections “before the implementation of the contracts.”
In addition to the production parts for American combat aircraft, S&L also won Pentagon contracts to produce weapons for “Small Arms, Ordnance and Ordnance Accessories Productioning”, as well as conducting rockets with a guide, DCNF said.
Ernst’s letter also asks if it requires “proactive steps to check foreign property, control or influence of contractors and subcontractors” or whether the Pentagon is based on “reporting independent by contractors and subcontractors.”
LJ EADS, former American intelligence analyst who reviewed the findings of S&L DCNF, characterized The process of verification of the US army for defense contractors as a “self -checking system” and warned that “there is limited enforcement of law for independent verification or examining these claims.”
🇺🇸 The Strahenty of the Defense of American Air Metals produces F-16, 747 etc. @Ddhsgov On critical production, but the S&L CEO list, Jerry Wang, as an official of the Intel agency
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Additionally, Ernst’s letter He asks for check -in from DOP “within 30 days of confirmation of this letter.”
“S&L is just one example of how Beijing violated our supply chain,” says Ernst’s letter. “American dollars of taxpayers dedicated to our national defense should not enrich our foreign opponents.”
DOD, S & L and Wang’s lawyer did not immediately answer requests for comment.
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Philip Lenczyk is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Sen. Joni Ernst” His. Joni Ernst.
