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China: U.S. Ambassador Criticizes Lack of Nonproliferation Efforts China must do more to control the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, U.S. ambassador to China Clark Randt said yesterday in Hong Kong. “Our experience to date is that China does not have an effective export control regime for sensitive materials and items,” he said. “I should be crystal clear on this point. Nonproliferation is a make-or-break issue for us.” Improvement in the sphere of nonproliferation is possible with China, Randt said, because nonproliferation is in China’s own security interests. “Having these weapons of mass destruction — in fact a lot of them in their neighborhood, not ours — is not good for them or for anybody else,” he said. U.S. officials have long urged China to do more to stem the spread of materials and technology for weapons of mass destruction to unstable countries. The United States has said China gave missile technologies to Pakistan in violation of a November 2000 agreement to stop exporting dangerous technologies (see GSN, Nov. 30, 2001). China has denied it violated the agreement. Randt praised China for its cooperation in the war on terrorism, calling it “no less than a paradigm shift” in U.S.-Chinese relations (see GSN, Jan. 2). He criticized China’s human rights record, however, and said that the war on terrorism would not be an excuse for China to persecute ethnic minorities (Joe Leahy, Financial Times, Jan. 21).
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