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  Chinese student held on spying allegations By Colin Randall(Filed: 05/05/2005)France has been gripped by the case of a suspected "high-tech Mata Hari", a Chinese student detained for allegedly spying on a car parts supplier while working as an intern. Police searching the home of Li-Li Whuang, 22, described as a brilliant polyglot, seized several computers and two hard drives said to have a "huge capacity".Among the material allegedly stored was data considered confidential by management at the research and development division of Valeo at La Verrière, a south-western suburb of Paris.Whuang, who arrived in France as an engineering student...

<p>China has obtained military navigation technology from Boeing used on advanced U.S. missiles and warplanes that was improperly approved by the State Department, according to U.S. government officials.</p> <p>The dual-use commercial-military items, known as QRS11 gyroscopic microchips, were sent to China inside the guidance systems of several Boeing 737-800 commercial jets sold to China Southern Airlines, one of several state-run Chinese airline companies. "We are deeply troubled by the decision to export military items to the [People´s Republic of China] absent the required license (and requisite non-transfer and end-user certificates) and believe such a decision is suspect on both policy and legal grounds," Reps. Henry J. Hyde, Illinois Republican, and Tom Lantos, California Democrat, stated in the Oct. 10 letter.</p>

The Bush administration has been "as bad, if not worse" than the Clinton administration when it comes to the transfer of sensitive technologies to the People's Republic of China (PRC), claims Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a nonpartisan public-interest law firm. Fitton says the Bush administration even has "relaxed the rules put in place during the Clinton years." Specifically, he tells Insight, the administration has allowed the transfer of "computer technology [whose] only practical purpose is for nuclear-weapon design." Fitton says that from the beginning the administration went "full-speed ahead" with China trade and efforts to get the PRC...