Mistrust From China Anti-Satellite Test

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Christopher Padilla, the assistant secretary for export administration under the US Commerce Department.

McCain Calls On China To Grow Up
Davos (AFP) Jan 27 - US Senator and presidential hopeful John McCain on Saturday said the time had come for China to justify its superpower aspirations and "step up" over issues like the North Korean nuclear crisis. "It's time for China to step up in the world and assume their responsibilities," McCain told reporters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos. "So far, some of us ... have been very disappointed in their lack of maturity," he added.

McCain, considered a frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, said allowing Pyonyang to develop nuclear weapons would likely lead to regional proliferation. "How can the Japanese not rearm if the North Koreans continue with this?" he said. "It's in China's interest to restrain North Korea and so far there has been very little, if any, assistance in that area on the part of China." Six-nation talks on the nuclear issue -- involving the United States, China, Japan, Russia and the two Koreas -- resumed in December after a gap of more than one year, during which Pyongyang tested its first atom bomb.

The last session made no visible progress, with North Korea sticking to its demands that the United States end sanctions against a Macau-based bank accused of laundering money for the impoverished communist regime. Chief US envoy Christopher Hill voiced optimism after rare one-to-one talks with his North Korean counterpart Kim Kye-gwan in Berlin last week. But McCain insisted that Beijing, which carries the most influence with the leadership in Pyongyang, needed to bring more pressure to bear. "If China is going to be a superpower ... it has to act like a superpower," the senator said.

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Beijing (AFP) Jan 26, 2007
A US trade official said Friday China's recent anti-satellite weapon test had contributed towards mistrust between the two countries, citing it as a reason for tighter US rules on high-tech exports. "Things like that contribute to international anxieties about China's military intentions and capabilities," said Christopher Padilla, the assistant secretary for export administration under the US Commerce Department.

"And the lack of transparency about this test, like the lack of transparency about China's military modernisation in general, contributes towards international concerns about what the purposes and intentions of this build-up are."

Padilla said he told Chinese officials during his visit that this was one reason why the United States had to be wary about the export of sensitive high-technology goods to China.

"I raised the point that the test is one more example of how a lack of transparency and clarity requires the US to hedge its relations with China," he said.

Padilla is in China to explain a proposed new policy to tighten controls on high tech US exports to prevent them from being used to advance China's military.

He said the policy was also designed to facilitate US exports for legitimate civil uses.

Padilla declined to give a date for when the policy would come into force.

But he said US exporters would have to apply for a licence to export products on a government list of 47 goods if they know the items are destined for a military end-use in China.

The US government is also proposing a "trusted customer programme" that enables licence-free exports to customers in China with a record of not using US goods for military purposes.

The US government has said the new policy would spare US exporters in critical sectors, such as semiconductor equipment and electronics, from applying for licenses for sales to companies in China.

Source: Agence France-Presse

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India To Set Up Aerospace Defence Command

New Delhi (AFP) Jan 28, 2007
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