China, Japan Cooperate on WMD Export Controls

Japan and China have pledged to work together on strengthening export control laws throughout Southeast Asia to prevent WMD technologies from getting into the wrong hands, the Asahi Shimbun reported today (see GSN, Jan. 28).

Japan would share export-control expertise and a list of export-restricted products that might be converted to military use.

A seminar on export control in Beijing, the first of that Japan has ever held with another nation, has been scheduled to open the effort Friday. Beginning in April, Japan plans to conduct similar seminars with countries throughout Southeast Asia, with an eye toward keeping dual-use technologies away from North Korea, according to Asahi Shimbun.

China has in recent years made efforts to increase regulation of such sales, including enactment in 2002 of a missile export control law (see GSN, April 5, 2002; Asahi Shimbun, March 1).

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