about it when it was a republican effort to begin with to get cheaper corporate satellites in space to begin with :rofl: it is well past time for republicans to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsdd/index.htmland of course they tried to blame Clinton
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/missile/keystories.htmbut it was Reagan that got the ball rolling and now we are here, what a bunch of duuphs...hm, well wha'da'ya know...guess who:
TESTIMONY OF PAUL WOLFOWITZ ~ aren't these guys just everywhere
As it happens, I served in both the Reagan and Bush Administrations. In fact, as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1982-1986, I played a role in the process by which the Reagan Administration decided to liberalize controls over the transfer of dual-use technology to China. I believe that President Reagan’s decision to liberalize those controls in 1983 was a correct one. However, to continue that same policy fifteen years later, in a world that has been fundamentally transformed strategically, would be a serious mistake.
Permit me to go over a bit of history. When George Shultz became Secretary of State in 1982, our relations with China were troubled. I accompanied him on his first visit to China in February 1983. During that visit it became clear that the most serious Chinese concern was over the very tight controls imposed on the transfer of all dual-use technology. Deng Xiaoping personally complained to Shultz that we were treating China just like the Soviet Union and that, although many U.S. officials had promised China greater access to Western technology, instead of “rain” China had received only a few “drops.”
When we returned to Washington we undertook a fundamental review of U.S. technology transfer policy toward China. We concluded that it made no sense to have the same restrictions on China that were being applied to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. In fact, China was then a counter-weight to Soviet military power, helping us to offset the Soviet threat to U.S. allies in Europe and Asia. It was in the interest of the United States to help China develop the military capabilities needed to deal with the formidable threat that it faced from the Soviet Union. Moreover, China at the time was cooperating with the United States on a number of important strategic issues, particularly in Afghanistan, and some degree of reciprocation on our part was warranted.http://cryptome.cn/cn-sat-export.htm#wolhttp://cryptome.cn/cn-sat-export.htm
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