Ambush of Security Controls
Today's Washington Times contains an op/ed piece discussing U.S. dual-use export controls on China by William Hawkins, a senior fellow for national security studies at the U.S. Business and Industry Council. Mr. Hawkins notes that the Defense Department's recently released annual report on Chinese military power (see below) quotes Chinese President Hu Jintao as saying that China needs "to build an innovative system of defense science and technology... to create a good structure under which military and civilian high technologies are shared and mutually transferable." Mr. Hawkins states that this remark "highlights the danger of 'dual use' items U.S. firms provide Chinese business partners being used to strengthen Beijing's defense industry and military capabilities."
Section 1202 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 (Public Law 106-65), requires the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to Congress on the current and future military strategy of the People's Republic of China." The 2006 version of the report on the Military Power of the People's Republic of China can be found here.
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