One of the Chinese entities blacklisted by the US for alleged links to a global espionage balloon program is part of a state-owned conglomerate that develops products including anti-drone systems and blimps.
China Electronics Technology Group Corp.’s 48th Research Institute is one of six companies or institutes that the US Commerce Department put on an export blacklist Friday because of ties to People’s Liberation Army aerospace programs.
CETC has a history with surveillance balloons, state media reports show. Its 38th Research Institute has worked on a balloon equipped with radar, video surveillance equipment and other technology, Xinhua reported in 2017. The same institute helped develop a 32-meter-long blimp, about the same length as a Boeing Co. 737-500 plane, that could carry devices weighing as much as 220 kilograms , Shanghai Daily reported in late 2018.
Its No. 14 Research Institute showcased a portable counter-drone radar in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing in 2021, according to a report at the time in the Global Times. Dubbed the “terminator of drones,” the system can be carried by a single soldier and is able to “detect low-altitude, small and slow targets despite strong noise waves close to the ground,” the newspaper said.
In 2020, the Trump administration included two CETC institutes on the Commerce Department’s “Entity List,” restricting their ability to purchase US software and components.
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