Posted on 01/01/2008 5:52:45 PM PST by milestogo
Doubts Raised on Technology Sales to China
WASHINGTON Six months ago, the Bush administration quietly eased some restrictions on the export of sensitive technologies to China. The new approach was intended to help American companies increase sales of high-tech equipment to China despite tight curbs on sharing technology that might have military applications.
But today the administration is facing questions from weapons experts about whether some equipment newly authorized for export to Chinese companies deemed trustworthy by Washington could instead end up helping China modernize its military. Equally worrisome, the weapons experts say, is the possibility that China could share the technology with Iran or Syria.
The technologies include advanced aircraft engine parts, navigation systems, telecommunications equipment and sophisticated composite materials.
The administrations new approach is part of an overall drive to require licenses for the export of an expanded list of technologies in aircraft engines, lasers, telecommunications, aircraft materials and other fields of interest to Chinas military.
But while imposing license requirements for the transfer of these technologies, the administration is also validating certain Chinese companies that may import these technologies without licenses.
Five such companies were designated in October, but as many as a dozen others are in the pipeline for possible future designation.
Mario Mancuso, Under Secretary of Commerce for industry and security, said the new system of broadening the list of technologies that require licenses, but exempting some trustworthy companies from the license requirement, results in more effective protections. But the Wisconsin Project report, made available to The New York Times, asserts that two non-military Chinese companies designated as trustworthy are in fact high-risk because of links to the Chinese government, the Peoples Liberation Army and other Chinese entities accused in the past of ties to Syria and Iran.
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ping.
You can forget that stuff about the Clintons being solely responsible for building up the Chicoms. Treachery and anti-patriotic behavior is bipartisan now. America’s business elite is doing their utmost to fulfill Lenin’s prophecy that the capitalists would sell the rope with which they would be hung.
madness.
its a runaway train
Aiding and abeting a Communist nation.
Selling us out for money. The Poli’s keep selling off our technology and assets, and soon we will have nothing to bargain for except a little red book (printed in China).
I rather doubt it.
The NYT is merely setting up Hillary for getting the bipartisan pass on Clinton policies which were far more permissive.
While I'm not certain if Lenin cared either way about the capitalists being hung, I do know he wanted to see them hanged.
I’ll be so glad when Bush is gone. It’s getting harder to defend his record every day. This is inexcusable.
"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."
Most of the time I don’t try unless it’s an obvious thing.
Do you really think these bureaucrats in Washington are somehow forcing businesses to sell sensitive technology to China? The govt. simply controls the valve; the pressure to sell comes from unprincipled, unpatriotic businessmen.
The more I see this kind of posts the more I wish Gore and Kerry had both been elected so you could really have some clarity.
Honestly, I think most of the Bush complainers would be in jail under Gore Kerry regimes.
I agree with the premise but not the conclusion.
I do not think Clinton = Bush.
That is the meme that both the NYT and misguided freepers are endorsing.
I refuse to endorse it.
I think it has become clear that what we don't sell to China they can easily steal without consequence.
bump
Unbelievable sad ping
“The more I see this kind of posts the more I wish Gore and Kerry had both been elected so you could really have some clarity.”
That’s understandable, but remember John Roberts and Samuel Alito. I don’t think a Gore or Kerry would have appointed them.
Can anyone out there tell me the operational range of a MIRVed ChiCom ICBM?
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