No. of Recommendations: 3
Dope1: The committee's findings appeared to include detailed criticism of the Clinton administration's policy of loosening high-tech export restrictions as a way to promote trade.
Yeah, gotta' love those "appeared" qualifiers, right?
From your own link:
The Central Intelligence Agency partly disagreed with the Air Force, saying Loral did not give China much useful information. Adm. Joseph W. Prueher, chief of the U.S. Pacific Command, recently said the U.S. launches helped Chinese ballistic missile capabilities "only incrementally, not [by] any quantum leaps."
Cox hinted to reporters at the Capitol yesterday that the Loral and Hughes cases were less significant than other Chinese attempts to acquire restricted U.S. technology. "We were rapidly led to considerably more serious national security problems than the Loral-Hughes cases," he said.
Would I have preferred that Clinton not do what he did? Yes. Would I have preferred that Bush not do what he did? Yes. Would I have preferred that Reagan didn't open up this Pandora's Box in the first place. Yes.
But tell us, which recent president had (mostly) praise for China and Xi?
