DATE=5/31/99
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-250024
TITLE=CHINA / U-S (L)
BYLINE=ROGER WILKISON
DATELINE=BEIJING
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: CHINA HAS AGAIN HIT OUT AT A U-S CONGRESSIONAL REPORT
ALLEGING THAT BEIJING STOLE U-S NUCLEAR SECRETS BY MOUNTING A
20-YEAR-LONG SPYING OPERATION TARGETED AT U-S WEAPONS
LABORATORIES. V-O-A CORRESPONDENT ROGER WILKISON REPORTS A
SENIOR CHINESE OFFICIAL SAYS CHINA HAS DEVELOPED ITS OWN NATIONAL
DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY AND DOES NOT NEED TO STEAL FROM OTHER
COUNTRIES.
TEXT: USING WORDS LIKE "ABSURD", "RIDICULOUS" AND "NONSENSE",
CHINESE CABINET SPOKESMAN ZHAO QIZHENG DISPARAGED THE
CONGRESSIONAL REPORT MONDAY, CALLING IT A FARCE TO INSTIGATE
ANTI-CHINA FEELINGS AND UNDERMINE SINO/U-S RELATIONS.
THE REPORT, PREPARED BY A SPECIAL COMMITTEE CHAIRED BY REPUBLICAN
REPRESENTATIVE CHRISTOPHER COX, SAYS CHINA STOLE BLUEPRINTS FOR
SEVEN TYPES OF U-S NUCLEAR WARHEADS AND THE NEUTRON BOMB.
SPEAKING THROUGH AN INTERPRETER, MR. ZHAO DISMISSED THE CHARGE,
SAYING CHINA IS AN INDUSTRIOUS AND INGENIOUS NATION AND HAS NEVER
NEEDED TO STEAL INFORMATION FROM OTHERS TO DEVELOP ITS OWN
WEAPONS.
/// INTERPRETER ACTUALITY ///
CHINA IS FULLY CAPABLE OF INDEPENDENTLY DEVELOPING ANY
SOPHISTICATED NATIONAL DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY. COX AND OTHER
ANTI-CHINA POLITICIANS IN THE UNITED STATES, TURNING A BLIND EYE
TO (IGNORING) THESE FACTS, HAVE TRIED THEIR BEST TO PLAY DOWN
AND DENY THE CHINESE PEOPLE'S INNOVATIVE CAPACITY IN DEVELOPING
SOPHISTICATED NATIONAL DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY.
/// END ACTUALITY ///
MR. ZHAO ACCUSES THE COX COMMITTEE OF SLANDERING THE CHINESE
NATION AND ENGAGING IN RACIAL PREJUDICE BY BELITTLING ITS
SCIENTIFIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS. HE SAYS THAT, DURING THE 1960'S --
WHEN THERE WERE VIRTUALLY NO CONTACTS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES
-- BEIJING DEVELOPED ITS OWN ATOMIC AND HYDROGEN BOMBS AS WELL AS
ITS OWN MISSILE PROGRAM. MR. ZHAO SAYS THE COX COMMITTEE JUST
CANNOT SEEM TO ACCEPT THAT CHINA WAS ABLE TO DEVELOP ON ITS OWN
ADVANCED WARHEADS SIMILAR TO THOSE IN THE AMERICAN ARSENAL.
/// INTERPRETER ACTUALITY ///
IF WE GO ALONG THE LINES OF THIS LOGIC, THEN THAT IS TO SAY ANY
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ACHIEVEMENT ATTAINED BY OTHER
COUNTRIES -- PARTICULARLY THOSE DEVELOPED FASTER THAN THE UNITED
STATES -- COME FROM THE TECHNOLOGY STOLEN FROM THE UNITED STATES.
THIS IS WILDLY ARROGANT.
/// END ACTUALITY ///
MR. ZHAO SAYS CHINA DID NOT NEED TO STEAL ANYTHING. HE SAYS
BLUEPRINTS OF NUCLEAR WARHEADS AND OTHER U-S WEAPONS ARE PUBLICLY
AVAILABLE AND CAN EVEN BE ACCESSED ON THE INTERNET. (SIGNED)
NEB/RW/FC/KL
31-May-99 7:42 AM EDT (1142 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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