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U.S. High-Technology Exports to China Depend on End-Use Visits, U.S. Official Says
The United States could increase its high-technology exports to China if Beijing allows on-site inspections to verify the end-use purposes of U.S. exports that could be used to develop weapons of mass destruction, U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans said today (see GSN, Oct. 21).
China is the only country where U.S. officials have been frustrated in gaining access to purchasers of controlled items, Evans said during remarks made at the end of a five-day visit to China.
“The big stumbling block right now is end-use visits,” Evans said. “As soon as we can get an end-use visit agreement in place … I feel confident that it will improve the environment, improve the conditions for increasing high-technology trade,” he said (Joe McDonald, Associated Press, Oct. 29).
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U.S. Nuclear Cooperation as Nonproliferation: Reforms, or the Devil You Know?
Nov. 27, 2012
Several U.S. bilateral nuclear cooperation agreements are set to expire in the next four years, and a long list of nuclear newcomers are interested in concluding new agreements with the United States. Jessica C. Varnum examines the debate over whether stricter nonproliferation preconditions for concluding these new and renewal "123" nuclear cooperation agreements with the United States would enhance or undermine their value as instruments of U.S. nonproliferation policy.
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