ARE TECH TRANSFERS TO RED CHINA WORSE UNDER BUSH?
“The Bush administration has been as bad, if not worse than the Clinton administration when it comes to the transfer of sensitive technologies to the People s Republic of China (PRC), claims Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a nonpartisan public-interest law firm. Fitton says the Bush administration even has relaxed the rules put in place during the Clinton years. Specifically, he tells Insight, the administration has allowed the transfer of computer technology [whose] only practical purpose is for nuclear-weapon design. Fitton says that from the beginning the administration went full-speed ahead with China trade and efforts to get the PRC into the World Trade Organization (WTO), which Fitton tells Insight only gives China more opportunities to modernize its military and get cash with which to buy high-tech weapons elsewhere.” DUBYA BUSH OPENS WIDER BILL CLINTON S BARN DOOR “While few have gone so far as Fitton with such complaints, criticism of U.S. transfers of sensitive techn
