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A partisan congressional committee has formally asked the U.S. Treasury and Commerce departments to investigate allegations that one of the leading providers of thermal sights and viewers in the U.S. is inappropriately linked to a Chinese company that’s been sanctioned for selling products to the Russian military.⁠ ⁠ The Chinese company, Yantai iRay Technology Co., Ltd., was sanctioned last year by the U.S. government for allegedly supplying arms that Russia used in its conflict with the Ukraine. Sanctions handed down by the U.S. Treasury Department last May required Yantai iRay to divest itself of any entities doing business in the United States. But the Democrat House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the CCP sent a letter to the secretaries of Treasury and Commerce last month requesting both agencies investigate whether Yantai iRay Technology “may be committing sanctions violations via a network of subsidiaries and directly related companies in the U...

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