New U.S. export controls on China too risky: report
By Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new U.S. government program that makes it easier to sell items with potential military uses to some companies in China should be suspended because it threatens national security, a watchdog group said on Wednesday.
The program increases the risk American goods will be illicitly sold to Syria or Iran or help China improve its armed forces, the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control said in a report.
Two of five companies selected in October for the plan have close ties "to China's military industrial complex or to companies that have been punished by the U.S. government for proliferation or other improper export behavior," the report said.
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By Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new U.S. government program that makes it easier to sell items with potential military uses to some companies in China should be suspended because it threatens national security, a watchdog group said on Wednesday.
The program increases the risk American goods will be illicitly sold to Syria or Iran or help China improve its armed forces, the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control said in a report.
Two of five companies selected in October for the plan have close ties "to China's military industrial complex or to companies that have been punished by the U.S. government for proliferation or other improper export behavior," the report said.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0265139520080102