https://archive.ph/iNTTs#selection-555.0-555.60

'Since the U.S. and Israel launched attacks against Iran in late February, Chinese satellite imagery of the conflict zone has proliferated—potentially offering battlefield guidance to Tehran and other U.S. adversaries.

U.S. concerns about the use of such data in the Middle East grew after the Chinese artificial-intelligence company MizarVision claimed on social media to have tracked the movements of American aircraft carriers, F-22 stealth fighters and B-52 bombers by using AI to analyze satellite data. 

A Pentagon assessment of China’s military power published in December said China-based commercial satellite firms have participated in business exchanges with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The Pentagon didn’t elaborate and it couldn’t be determined whether and how Iran might be using Chinese imagery to guide its military operations. 

The capabilities of China’s remote-sensing satellites came into sharper focus after an American satellite operator said it was withholding indefinitely images of the conflict zone in the Middle East in response to a U.S. government request. 

U.S. politicians have warned that commercial satellite data—whatever the origin—might be helpful to Iranian forces.

Rep. John Moolenaar (R., Mich.), chairman of the House Select Committee on China, sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week raising concerns about security risks that U.S. forces in the Middle East face from MizarVision’s publication of satellite images.

The letter cited analyses and reports saying MizarVision appeared to use data from the defense and space division of the European company Airbus, while also receiving imagery from Chinese operators.

“The potential of commercial satellite imagery exploited by China to enable the targeting of U.S. forces and the loss of American lives is an urgent threat,“ Moolenaar wrote, seeking the Pentagon’s assurance that Airbus has stopped providing satellite imagery that poses risks to U.S. forces.'