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Exports that don't compute. (Correction, Please!).(export controls on supercomputers to China)(Brief Article)
ITEM: President Bush "allowed U.S. companies to sell high-speed computers to countries such as Russia, China and India, easing a Cold War-era ban designed to halt the spread of nuclear arms," reported Reuters for January 3rd. Larger computer manufacturers "have opposed the limits. They point out that the United States has restricted its exports, but other countries have not."
CORRECTION: In the case of exporting technology that could be used for advancements in nuclear armaments, the president knows of the potential harm. Indeed, just a few weeks earlier, he vowed to "toughen export controls." At the Citadel on December 11th, Bush told the cadets: "Together, we must keep the world's most dangerous technologies out of the hands of the world's most dangerous people."
Making supercomputers available to China, for example, makes that nation more dangerous, as was noted in 1997 by former DoD and State Department officials before the House Subcommittee on International Security. Officials expressed dismay that the ...
- China urges US to ease hi-tech export controls.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. December 8, 2006 700+ words
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- China issues revised regulations on nuclear export controls.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. December 1, 2006 700+ words
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 7, 2004 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Gertz, Bill June 18, 1997 700+ words
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- Press release article from: Business Wire November 29, 2006 700+ words
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...list on October 18. Gao said China instituted Regulations on the...would further strengthen China's export control of dual...technologies. As an important part of China's export control legal system...interests, and standardizing its export controls of sensitive items, she said...
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- Press release article from: Business Wire August 5, 2003 700+ words
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- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. October 21, 2003 700+ words
Washington, Oct 21 (PTI) China's performance in preventing proliferation of weapons and enforcing export controls on weapons' parts "has been less than fully satisfactory," the United States has said. Undersecretary of Commerce, Kenneth...