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U.S. Has "No Objections" to China's Nuclear Buildup.(the Bush administration, in an apparent effort to pursue its missile defense plans, has dropped its objections to China's nuclear buildup)(Brief Article)

The New American

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According to a September 2nd New York Times article, unnamed senior Bush administration officials have indicated that the White House intends to soften its traditional anti-nuclear proliferation doctrine by dropping objections to China's ongoing nuclear buildup. According to the report, the Bush administration will tell the Chinese it has "no objections" to China's building more nuclear missiles. "We know the Chinese will enhance their nuclear capability anyway, and we are going to say to them, 'We're not going to tell you not to do it,'" commented one senior adminstration official, adding "Why panic? They are modernizing anyway."

The Establishment's spin on the new Bush doctrine is that it is a means of creating justification for an American missile defense system. Senator Joseph Biden (D.-Del.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is one of the strongest congressional opponents of a national missile defense system. "This is absolutely absurd," he sputtered, "It shows that these guys will go to any ...

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