Washington concerned over Turkey's plans to use Chinese company under US sanctions for selling arms to Iran and Syria to supply its first long-range anti-missile system
File picture of surface-to-air Chinese missiles on display at the People's Liberation Army Aviation Museum in Beijing
The US Congress is set to adopt a law next week forbidding Turkey from using American funds to acquire a $4 billion missile system from a Chinese company blacklisted by Washington.
The United States has voiced deep concern over Turkey's decision in September to enter negotiations with China Precision Machinery Export-Import Corporation for its first long-range anti-missile system.
CPMIEC, which makes the HQ-9 missile system, is under US sanctions for selling arms and missile technology to Iran and Syria.
Turkey's move also irritated its allies in NATO which has said missile systems within the transatlantic military alliance must be compatible with each other.
The annual US defense authorization bill, passed on Thursday by the House, contains a clause barring the use of "2014 funds to integrate missile defense systems of the People's Republic of China into US missile defence systems."
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