[FPSPACE] China to End Missile Part Exports

[Dwayne Allen Day]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Dan Barkley wrote:

> For American companies, the immediate effect will be the unfreezing of
> licence applications to launch American satellites on Chinese rockets.

Is this true?  I thought that the licensing problem was essentially
dictated by statute.  In other words, Clinton cannot simply open this up
on his own, since there is a law regulating it.

It is also worth noting that Congress objected to this stuff because of
concern that technology was going TO CHINA, not because of proliferation
to other countries.  The Republicans were worried that American technology
was going into Chinese ICBMs targeted at the US.



DDAY