https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/11/world/clinton-approves-technology-transfer-to-china.html
Clinton Approves Technology Transfer to China
By John M. Broder,May 11, 1999
The Clinton Administration notified Congress today that it had approved the export of technology to China to permit the launching of a communications satellite aboard a Chinese rocket next month.
President Clinton said in a letter to Congress that the transfer would not harm national security or significantly improve China’s military capability in space.
The President was required under a 1998 law to certify that all such technology exports are in the national interest.
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It’s been said this assistance, much of it from LORAL, advanced Chinese capabilities by at least 15years.