Before Loral Space, China could hit California, after Clinton/Schwartz they could lay the ICBM right down the pipe.
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Everyone seems to for get that at the time China’s thermonuclear bombs were too big and heavy to mount on their ICBMs. Clinton gifted them free as a good will gesture the way to miniaturize the trigger, thus reducing the size and weight of the thermonuclear bombs which could then be mounted on those ICBMs in place of the small yielding atomic ones.
For a small fee, he also granted the PLAN complete access to all US Navy ships and Navy operations including sub and air operations. This gift included submarine prop tech as well.
Apparently, you and I are the only ones old enough to remember such trivialities.