Chinese Say Cox Report
Reflects Racial Discrimination
BEIJING, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Zhao Qizheng, the director of China's
State Council Information Office, said today at a press conference that the U.S.
Congress's Cox Report was a total fabrication and that it was tainted with racial
discrimination.
Asked to explain further, Zhao cited one example in the report where it alleged that China
had stolen nuclear secrets from the United States, because the U.S. has done more than
1,000 nuclear tests, in reaching its present development level of nuclear weapons, and
China only did some 40 tests.
"How could China succeed? It must have stolen the American nuclear technology, if one
follows the report's logic," Zhao said. "That is to say the Chinese race could
not be as smart and intelligent as the Americans."
Without going through the necessary legal process, Mr. Cox arbitrarily gave names of some
Chinese-Amercians in the United States who were spies or suspected of espionage, Zhao
said. "Isn' t that racial discrimination?" he asked.
Zhang Lihui, director of the Research and Development Department of the China Aerospace
Science and Technology Corporation, was invited to take questions at today's press
conference.
She said, "When you look at the world history of aerospace industry, you would find
that the Chinese were the first to invent ancient rockets; it was the Russians who
advanced the concept of interstellar travel; and the first who put forward the concept of
geo-stationary orbit is British."
"Now, according to the logic of Mr. Cox, can we say that the current aerospace
technologies of the United States are stolen from other countries?" Zhang asked. |
