Source: Fox News · 2026-09-15 · Original article ↗

Trump says China 'spies' on US after report ties Chinese imagery to Iran strike

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Three Americans died in Jordan. The imagery, officials say, came from Chinese entities.

Summary

  • Fox News reports President Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday that China spies on the United States the same way the United States spies on China, after a Wall Street Journal account that Chinese entities supplied Iran with high-resolution satellite imagery.
  • U.S. officials linked the imagery to Iran's July 17 missile strike on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, which killed three U.S. troops. Officials called it the clearest evidence yet that support from Chinese entities during the war had deadly consequences for American forces.
  • Officials did not name the Chinese entities and did not accuse Beijing of directing the attack. Trump said Xi Jinping has behaved reasonably well and that the U.S. has too.
  • Xi is scheduled to visit Washington on September 24. The White House did not immediately comment to Fox.

Commentary

A base dad still folds a flag patch into a drawer and knows a satellite tile is supposed to be weather, not a targeting card for a missile that kills three Americans. He did not pay the levy so a commercial image could become a funeral.

July 17. Three dead. Jordan. September 24 summit. The honest household already paid the hangar. The cold concrete at Salti still holds the blast marks.

Look every working father who still sends a kid to a desert pad in the eye and answer this: if Chinese imagery sat on that strike file, who still owns the next American shift on that ramp?

Comments

If the imagery sat on a July 17 kill file, who still owns the next American shift in Jordan?
u/border_dad · 5h

July 17. Three dead. Salti. September 24. Keep that order.

u/midwest_vet · 4h

I stood a ramp so a satellite still meant weather. A targeting tile is not commerce.

u/rule_first · 4h

WSJ officials. Chinese entities unnamed. No Beijing-directed charge. Print the three.

u/tokyo_ally · 3h

Allied desks still treat a deadly image feed as a sanction file, not a shrug.

u/docket_rat · 3h

Air Force One quote. Xi visit. Deadliest China-Iran link yet, officials said. File it.

u/night_shift · 2h

I still clock a dock at 2 a.m. I want the next image license treated like a weapon.

u/texas_mom · 90m

Three funerals from a commercial tile is not a mix-up. It is a warning the street already paid.

u/gulf_watch · 55m

A shrug at a summit is a second border around a missile crater. The first export control should have been enough.

u/press_clip · 30m

Fox printed Salti, July 17, and Trump's spy line. Argue those nouns.

u/soc_lead · 15m

Name the vendors. Cut the feed. A satellite tile is not innocent after three dead.

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