bush sells out to china too…???

High-tech transfers to China continue; on the Bush administration’s watch, highly sensitive U.S. technology still is being exported to the People’s Republic, where it is being used to build better weapons – Special Report
Insight on the News, July 29, 2002 by Zoli Simon
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 into the World Trade Organization (WTO), which Fitton tells INSIGHT only gives China more opportunities to modernize its military and "get cash" with which to buy high-tech weapons elsewhere.

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While few have gone so far as Fitton with such complaints, criticism of U.S. transfers of sensitive technology to China is growing. Accuracy in Media, another Washington watchdog group, echoes Fitton on computer-technology transfers: "President Bush seems to have no clearer vision of what constitutes a strategically sensitive export than did Clinton. For example, Republicans harshly condemned Clinton for exporting high-performance computers to China, but President Bush has more than doubled the control threshold on these computers despite existing intelligence estimates that demonstrate how China’s national security benefits from such acquisitions."

I have been a member of the Brookings Institution for some time now (three years) and I urge you to take up a free membership (http://brookings.edu) for observing our foreign policy, especially with regard to China.

I would also urge you to examine other, seemingly unimportant, cases with regard to this. Such as the US-India nuclear agreement (unsigned, seen by many as an attempt to try and initiae strategic contact with the other Asian giant), The US backed proposal for an Asian axis of "peace and security" (Israel, Japan, Australia and India), Bush meeting Uyghr displaced leaders and Dalai lama, American presence in Okinawa and the DMZ (especially Okinawa) and the Israeli support in arms sale to India.

The US has been trying to encircle China for some time now. Obviously with a politically handicapped India this task is going to be very frustrating but it has been underway for some time.

Don’t give too much weightage to what looks like an unreliable source of information. The Brookings is headed by Stephen Cohen, among other academics with first hand service experience.