Reply #16: the clinton-china technology transfers with links

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facts and truth, for starters, the Chinese technology transfer…

“The Clinton administration decided to reject the sale of a US$450 million satellite to a business group with close ties to the Chinese government after criticism that such aerospace deals with China could harm national security. “The decision reversed the government' approval of the deal two-and-a-half years ago and casts doubt on the future of US satellite sales to China, The deal involved the Hughes Space and Communications satellite designed to set up a mobile telephone network over a vast area of Asia from China to Indonesia and Pakistan. The Commerce Department formally notified Hughes Electronics Corp. of the government's "intent to deny" approval for the deal.“The Commerce Department favored the sale but was overruled by the Defense and State Departments, which believed that the technology needed to put the satellite in orbit would help China's military make its intercontinental ballistic missile fleet more accurate. Some experts feared the Chinese military would derive both commercial and technological benefits once the satellite was in orbit. The Pentagon and other US agencies were worried about the Chinese military's involvement in the deal. The official buyer of the satellite was a Singapore-based business group whose top officials include senior Chinese military officers. Hughes Electronics is a separately traded unit of General Motors Corp.”

The Chinese launch American satellites on a regular basis. These are commercial, telecommunication satellites. The technologies sold to the Singapore company on guidance are trivial compared to that which the Chinese received from the Soviet Union. The differences between ICBMs and satellite launchers was pointed out even by the CIA, and withheld from public examination.

The Federal Aviation Administration expects to have more than 30 satellite launches this year from the United States, nearly double the 17 that went up in 1997.

But that is a small percentage of world launches, and the need for more satellites is expected to climb exponentially as people depend more on satellites for phone, television, pager, and Internet services.

Dependence on satellite technology came into sharp focus in May 1998 when the Galaxy IV orbiter turned away from Earth, silencing pagers, some television feeds, and other devices. Without contingency satellites, the outages would have lasted for days.
The United States makes about two-thirds of the world's commercial satellites, but simply cannot launch them all, says the Satellite Industry Association.

"US satellite firms are in sync with the Clinton administration -- and the Bush and Reagan administrations before it -- for encouraging launches of commercial satellites in places with known or suspected nuclear weapons capability. So far, that has included Russia, Ukraine, and China.”

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