Obama loosens missile technology controls to China

**PocketProtector** · October 15th, 2009, 02:07 PM

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EXCLUSIVE: Obama loosens missile technology controls to China

By Bill Gertz INSIDE THE RING

President Obama recently shifted authority for approving sales to China of missile and space technology from the White House to the Commerce Department -- a move critics say will loosen export controls and potentially benefit Chinese missile development.

The president issued a little-noticed "presidential determination" Sept. 29 that delegated authority for determining whether missile and space exports should be approved for China to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke.

Commerce officials say the shift will not cause controls to be loosened in regards to the export of missile and space technology.

Eugene Cottilli, a spokesman for Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security, said under new policy the U.S. government will rigorously monitor all sensitive exports to China.

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The presidential notice alters a key provision of the 1999 Defense Authorization Act that required that the president notify Congress whether a transfer of missile and space technology to China would harm the U.S. space-launch industry or help China's missile programs.

The law was passed after a late-1990s scandal involving the U.S. companies Space Systems/Loral and Hughes Electronics Corp.

Both companies improperly shared technology with China and were fined $20 million and $32 million, respectively, by the State Department after a U.S. government investigation concluded that their know-how was used to improve China's long-range nuclear missiles.

Section 1512 of the 1999 law requires the president to certify to Congress in advance of any missile equipment or technology exports to China that the export will not harm the U.S. space-launch industry and that "missile equipment or technology, including any indirect technical benefit that could be derived from such export, will not measurably improve the missile or space launch capabilities of the People's Republic of China."

The new policy appears aimed at increasing U.S.-China space cooperation, which has been limited since the Loral and Hughes case. It follows the Chinese military's test of an anti-satellite missile that produced potentially dangerous space junk after the missile destroyed a Chinese weather satellite in a January 2007 test.
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**velkly** · October 15th, 2009, 02:11 PM

Great, not only do they own most of the country (thanks for taking up that Nat'l Debt), they now get our missle technology. I certainly hope I am not the only one that is extremely concerned over this. What China has, so do the North Koreans.

ETA: Guess they can free up their spies from the missile side and focus them on other facets of ours that they want.

**ByAnyMeans** · October 15th, 2009, 02:22 PM

This is insane, between the technology Clinton and now possibly Obama is allowing to be sold to China and the massive debt Bush and now Obama have allowed to pile up with them we have our hands tied behind our back.

**PocketProtector** · October 15th, 2009, 02:46 PM

O is POTUS!!! errrr I mean POROC...errr I mean POTWW

**BSH** · October 15th, 2009, 03:24 PM

It's the golden rule - them that have the gold make the rules. And China has the gold. They hold our economy in the palm of their hand; USA is pwned. Excessive national debt is actually a national security problem, but nobody will acknowledge it.

**Dredly** · October 15th, 2009, 03:59 PM

I have a feeling there is a whole lot more to this then we are being told... i wouldn't doubt that this move is in exchange for something else, either support with North Korea or appeasement for the union/tire bullshit that he pulled a few weeks ago.

then again China does own us... so if they wanted to they could just demand it and we would have to do as they command

**PocketProtector** · October 15th, 2009, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by Dredly

I have a feeling there is a whole lot more to this then we are being told... i wouldn't doubt that this move is in exchange for something else, either support with North Korea or appeasement for the union/tire bullshit that he pulled a few weeks ago.

then again China does own us... so if they wanted to they could just demand it and we would have to do as they command

Missiles in their Hummers ?

**Brick** · October 15th, 2009, 06:33 PM

Absolute horseshit! This is the same stuff Clinton pulled when he taught the Chicoms how to use our technology to launch missiles and sold them new computers and Multiple Re-entry Vehicle tech also. Then the Chinese turn around and give the technology to nK and Iran.

I wonder if this means Obama will have to send Biden to a Chinese Buddhist Temple to get the "campaign donation"