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October 29, 1997 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Ð Extensions of Remarks E2117 you would be proud to take home to Mother. Equipment to develop deadly biological knowledge and nuclear weapons to states They are working hard to achieve this goal, weapons was sent to Iran. A Chinese-supplied that did not possess them. in their ham-fisted way. ``We try to make factory that produces glass-lined equipment Three years later, U.S. intelligence discov- some PR job,'' one Chinese ``expert on the was opened earlier this year. ered that the China National Nuclear Energy United States'' tells the Washington Post. 400 metric tons of chemicals used in pro- Industry Corporation, a Beijing-controlled And how depressing it is, nauseating even, ducing nerve agents and riot-control agents operation, had sold 5,000 ring magnets to to see elite America eagerly collaborate in were shipped to Iran last year. In May, sanc- Pakistan, which is trying to match India's the construction of this spinÐwhich is, at tions were imposed on seven Chinese compa- nuclear-weapon potential. Experts say that bottom, after all, a lie of gigantic propor- nies that sold chemical weapons goods and sale could increase Pakistan's weapon capa- tions, Jiang Zemin, Time magazine tells us, equipment to Iran. bility by jumping its enriched-uranium ca- loves Benny Goodman, Mozart, and Elvis, Accelerometers and gyroscopes for missiles pacity 100 percent. too. He knows the Gettysburg Address by were supplied to Iran in 1996. The magnets are a product China sold to heart. He has ``favorite American authors,'' Furnace and diagnostic equipment with Saddam Hussein before the gulf war. the Los Angeles Times reports: ``Mark Twain nuclear weapons applications were sold to The U.S. also found that the magnets went and''Ðwe're not making this upÐ``Zbigniew Pakistan in late 1996Ðafter a May 1996 to ``unsafeguarded'' Pakistani facilitiesÐno Brzezinski.'' He's a big, cuddly teddy bear of pledge by Beijing not to sell nuclear tech- international inspection permitted. Teams of a man, apparently. nology. U.N. inspectors have spent almost six years Jiang is also a man, of course, who tells Five French-made Super Puma helicopters trying to find all of Saddam's American journalists that ``democracy and with Chinese air-launched missiles were ``unsafeguarded'' hidden nuclear capability. human rights are relative concepts.'' And promised to Iran under a 1996 deal that also Violating the treaty should have brought that Wei Jingsheng is a common criminal, involved Indonesia. sanctions. Washington complained but im- not a ``so-called'' political dissident. And 5,000 ring magnets were sold to Khan Re- posed no penalty. that China's rape of Tibet was in fact a suc- search Laboratories in Pakistan in 1996. The China denied the sale. Then on May 11, cessful effort to rescue that country from magnets were assessed by U.S. intelligence 1996, it promised not to do it again. Mr. Clin- slavery, like our own Civil War, and that to be a major boost to Islamabad's produc- ton's speech said nothing about China's nu- ``the American people should be happy'' tion of nuclear-weapons fuel. clear deals and treaty-breakingÐor what the about it. Jiang issues these spectacular in- M±11 missiles were sold to Pakistan in 1995 C.I.A. told Congress in June 1997. sults, all of them in the last few weeks, but and 1996. U.S. intelligence believes the mis- The C.I.A. reported that during the second draws no official and direct American rebuke siles are operational, but the administration half of 1996, after the pledge to the U.S., or demurral. Rebuking him wouldn't be nice, ignored the finding to avoid applying sanc- China was still the ``primary source of nu- you see. tions. clear related equipment and technology'' to The master of the Nanpu New Life Salt Missile-patrol boats equipped with scores Pakistan. Also, said the report, China is the Works has no business invoking Abraham of advanced C±802 anti-ship cruise missiles world's ``most significant supplier of weap- Lincoln, or appearing next to the Liberty were sold to Iran in 1996. They provide a new ons of mass destruction-related goods and Bell, or drinking champagne at the White capability to attack U.S. or allied ships in technology''Ðwhich means nuclear, chemi- House. It diminishes American principle that the Persian Gulf. cal or bacteriological. he has been invited to do such things. It di- Missile technology was sold last year to The President did not mention China's minishes American principle further that he Syria. breaking its pledge to America after break- will be applauded for it by our elected lead- A complete factory for producing M±11 ing its treaty pledge to the world. Nor did he ers, by our college presidents and Kissingers, missiles or systems of similar ranges was say that he was planning to reward China by by our business chieftains, by our ``sophisti- sold to Pakistan in 1996. giving it clearance to shop nuclear in Amer- cated'' opinion leaders. ica. But he will, unless Congress can block The task of rescuing American honor this CLINTON'S NUCLEAR DECEPTIONÐON MY MIND him. After China's broken pledges, will Ameri- week will fall to those allegedly unsophisti- (By A.M. Rosenthal) cated protesters who will dog Jiang Zemin cans be fools enough to believe Beijing will Craftily, ever so craftily, President Clinton wherever he goes, exercising their rights keep new promises to become a reformed is deceiving the American public about a under what Yu Shuning calls ``the First proliferator or use U.S. nuclear technology critical danger to world security: China's Amendment of the Constitution, et cetera.'' for ``peaceful purposes''? Just this year, after international sales of the materiel and tech- We hope the protests are as large and loud the usual denials, Beijing admitted that U.S. nology of nuclear warfare. and obnoxious as possible. It won't be machinery sold for civilian manufacture was The motive is to allow China to buy Amer- ``nice.'' But it will be right. transferred to a military aviation plant. ican nuclear materiel and information, in- That Clinton remark about China's devel- A particularly astonishing feature of this cluding advanced U.S. nuclear reactor tech- oping export controls is cynical acceptance week's sham summit will be President Clin- nologyÐas U.S. nuclear manufacturers are of Beijing's cynical pretense that any illicit ton's laughable attempt to implement the 1985 urging. nuclear exporting was the fault of sleepy Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. Presumably No previous President, and not even Mr. customs officials. with a straight face, President Clinton will ac- Clinton himself until now, would take the The stuff of nuclear, bacteriological or step required to permit Chinese nuclear chemical warfare is not exported from China tually send a piece of paper to Congress shopping in AmericaÐcertifying that China shortly which will ``certify'' that China is a re- unless top officials approve. Mr. Jiang is the was not illicitly peddling its own nuclear toppest. sponsible steward of nuclear technology. Of goods abroad. President Clinton is crafty, but not crafty course, this is a lie. For proof, the Washington The U.S. knew that was not true. enough. He has turned China's broken Times has provided us with a succinct box The U.S. knew that despite Beijing's deni- pledges into a guilt of his ownÐdeception score that sums up China's criminal record of als and pledges, for more than a decade about a matter of life and death, many lives nuclear and other weapons proliferation. The China has made important nuclear sales to and perhaps, some hideous day, many deaths. list is long and frightening, and the President's countries intent on achieving capability to make nuclear bombs. f policy is a dangerous disgrace. No one has Under a 1985 U.S. law, nations illegally written on this more eloquently than Abe proliferating nuclear materiel and tech- CONGRATULATIONS TO COL. Rosenthal in the October 28 New York Times, nology are subject to American sanctions. WILLIAM D. McGILL II and I insert both his article and the Washing- They are also forbidden to buy U.S. nuclear ton Times proliferation list for the RECORD. products and technology. HON. IKE SKELTON Now Mr. Clinton is ready to permit Amer- CHINA'S PROLIFERATION RECORD ican nuclear sales to China. So last Friday, OF MISSOURI China in recent months has sold an array in his speech setting the stage for the state IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of nuclear-, chemical- and biological-weap- visit of President Jiang Zemin, he made this Wednesday, October 29, 1997 ons technology and missile technology to na- statement: tions seeking weapons of mass destruction. ``China has lived up to its pledge not to as- Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, today I want to Here are some of the known transfers: sist unsafeguarded nuclear facilities in third congratulate Col. William D. McGill II, who will Telemetry equipment was provided to Iran countries, and it is developing a system of retire from the U.S. Army on October 30, for missile tests on the medium-range export controls to prevent the transfer or 1997, after a long and distinguished career of Shahab±3 and Shahab±4 missile program in sale of technology for weapons of mass de- service to our Nation spanning nearly 30 violation of the Missile Technology Control struction.'' years. Regime. Neither part of that sentence is honest. Rocket motors and test equipment were In 1992, after selling nuclear-war materiel Colonel McGill enlisted in the Army in 1967, shipped to Iran for a new short-range missile to Iran, Iraq and Algeria among other coun- shortly after graduating from the North Caro- known as the NP±110, which was tested in tries, China signed the worldwide Non- lina State University at Raleigh.