U.S.-Concocted "Cox Report" A Farce to Instigate Anti-China Feelings, Undermine Sino-U.S. Relations: Zhao Qizheng
BEIJING, May 31 (Xinhua) -- The U.S.-concocted "Cox Report" is
a farce to instigate anti-China feelings and undermine Sino-U.S.
relations, said Zhao Qizheng, director of the Information Office
of the State Council, here today.
At a press conference given this afternoon in Beijing, Zhao
delivered a statement on the "Cox Report" made by the U.S. Congress.
He said that a number of American anti-China politicians,
represented by Christopher Cox, dished out a tedious so-called
investigation report on May 25, after more than half a year of
careful scheming.
The report alleges that sophisticated national defense
technology and major scientific and technological achievements
related to national economic progress developed independently by
China through self-reliance are "stolen" or illegally "acquired"
from the United States.
"The Chinese Government and people are strongly indignant over
this groundless attack that is based on fabrications and confuses
black and white."
The Cox Report claims that "the People's Republic of China (PRC)
employs all types of people, organizations, and collection
operations to acquire sensitive technology. Threats to national
security can come from PRC scientists, students, business people
or bureaucrats, in addition to professional civilian and military
intelligence operations."
Zhao said, "This is a great slander against the Chinese nation
and is typical racial prejudice."
"China is a large country with a long history of civilization.
The Chinese nation is an industrious and ingenious nation," he
said, "China has always relied on its own efforts to handle its
own affairs. Never did China in the past, nor does it at present,
nor will it in the future, base its development of the
sophisticated national defense technology related to national
security and interests on the 'theft' of technology from other
countries."
"China relies on its own strength to independently develop its
national defense technology," Zhao said, "This is a basic
principle China has persisted in."
He said that as everybody knows, during the years when the
United States imposed an all-round blockade and used nuclear
blackmail against China, China relied on its own efforts to
develop atom bombs, missiles, satellites and other sophisticated
national defense technology.
Fifteen years before China and the United States established
diplomatic relations, on June 29, 1964, China successfully
launched the first domestically developed surface-to-surface
missile, and on October 16 the same year, China successfully
exploded its first atom bomb, he said. Twelve years before the
establishment of Sino-U.S. diplomatic relations, on June 17, 1967,
China exploded its first H-bomb. Nine years before the
establishment of Sino-U.S.diplomatic relations, on April 24, 1970,
China successfully launched its own man-made earth satellite,
he said.
These facts indicate that China has a full capacity to
independently develop any sophisticated national defense
technology, Zhao said. Cox and other anti-China politicians in the
United States, turning a blind eye to these facts, have tried
their best to belittle and deny the Chinese people's innovative
capacity in developing sophisticated national defense technology.
The Cox Report attacks China for extensively "stealing" various
military technologies of the United States over a long period, he
said. But, terms of conjecture such as "seemingly", "presumably",
"if", "perhaps", "probably" and "perhaps in the future", can be
found throughout the report while offering no substantive evidence,
he said. Without any solid, concrete facts, they even claim China
"stole" U.S. sensitive technology in an organized and extensive
way that threatens the national security of the United states.
This is utterly absurd, he said. This sensational conclusion
does not hold water.
The Cox Report also brands such normal academic activities as
investigating and studying open materials and international
academic exchanges as "stealing" U.S. technological secrets, he
said. This is extremely ridiculous. It uses the method of first
maintaining that China displays the behavioral pattern of "
stealing", and then fabricating facts subjectively by scraping
together deliberately concocted information.
Zhao said, "By the way, I'd like to tell you a fact that the
concept Simulated Nuclear Explosion by Laser used in the Cox
Report was developed on the basis of "ICF" (Inertial Confinement
Fusion by Laser), which was originally advance by Mr. Wang
Ganchang of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1964. China has never
said that the use of this theory by other counties is a theft of
technology."
China has been relying on its own efforts to manufacture and
develop its nuclear weapons, Zhao said. China has never, as the
Cox Report claims, "stolen" secrets from the U.S. nuclear weapons
laboratory. Performance data on the seven types of nuclear
warheads -- W56, W62, W70, W76, W78, W87 and W88 -- have long been
openly published in the United States, he said. They are no longer
secrets, so there is nothing to "steal".
For instance, the U.S. Nuclear Forces and Capability, the first
volume of the Nuclear Weapons Databook, written by Thomas B.
Cochran and other in 1984, and U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret
History, written by Chuck Hansen in 1988, all make a detailed
introduction to the aforementioned nuclear warheads' power, weight,
length, diameter, materials, circular error probability and other
relevant data, as well as development units, supporting carrier
system and the armed services to be equipped, he said.
The writers specifically pointed out that all the materials
they quoted came from the records of the hearing of the U.S.
Congress, the three major nuclear laboratories of the U.S.
Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Defense, in order
to emphasize the authority and reliability of the books, he said.
Moreover, in recent years, performance data about various types of
nuclear warheads, ranging from the early MK-1 to the latest W88,
can easily be found on the Internet.
The Cox Report says the United States has conducted about 1,030
nuclear tests, while China has only carried out 45 such tests. But,
China has developed advanced thermal nuclear warheads
technologically similar to those of the United States, Zhao said.
Here, the report, humming and hawing, drops a hint that China has
achieved this by "stealing" U.S. nuclear technology, otherwise,
the achievement would be impossible.
This kind of logic is quite ridiculous, Zhao noted. According
to it, any scientific and technological achievements attained by
other countries, particularly those developed faster than in the
United States, come from technology "stolen" from the United
States, he said. This is wildly arrogant, he said.
It only took China two years and eight months to go from the
explosion of the first atom bomb to that of the first H-bomb, he
said. China achieved this under the condition of severe U.S.
blockade. This fact, perhaps, cannot be denied by certain anti-
China politicians in the United States, stressed Zhao.
The Cox Report also offers a large number of distortions about
China's space undertakings, Zhao said.
China began developing its own space program during the period
of embargo and blockade by Western countries. China's space sector
has developed by totally relying on its own strength. Without any
foreign assistance, China has independently developed intermediate
and short-range missiles, long-range rockets, submarine-launched
solid-propellant rockets, recoverable satellites, the technology
to launch multiple satellites atop a single rocket, and
geostationary communication satellites.
When China announced it would enter into the international
commercial satellite launching market in 1985, the country already
had the experience of 20 successful launches, giving it the
ability to launch all kinds of satellites in high, medium and low
orbits.
China launched the first international commercial satellite in
1990. Launched by the Long March-III carrier rocket, the "Asiasat
I" satellite made by the Hughes Corp. achieved the most accurate
orbit insertion precision among the 31 satellites in the same
category launched by the company to that date.
The aforementioned facts all demonstrate that the space
technology of China has already ranked among the world's top
level, Zhao said.
Commercial satellite launching represents the peaceful use of
space technologies and is a normal commercial activity based on
mutual benefit. The Cox Report slanders China by saying it had "
acquired" US missile guidance technology through commercial
launches to promote the development of its own missiles.
"This is a totally deceptive statement that substitutes one
thing for another," Zhao said. Although China already had the high-
precision missile guidance technology, people with even slight
scientific knowledge will know that commercial satellite launches
require only an economical and rational guidance system with
moderate precision, instead of the high-precision guidance system
needed for ballistic missiles.
It is understandable if it is a non-professional who is saying
that the precision of the missile guidance system can be improved
through commercial launches, Zhao said. But it is very surprising
that such a statement comes from the so-called investigation
report of the Special Committee of the U.S. Congress.
The Cox Report uses many pages to exaggerate China's failures
in commercial satellite launches in 1995 and 1996, he said. It
alleges that because the reasons for the failures were all
determined under the guidance of American experts, China could
improve its carrier-rocket technology and then apply it to its
missiles.
"It is sheer nonsense," Zhao said. The rocket has been
developed by China itself, and the various flight data are kept by
the Chinese. The Chinese have been independently developing
rockets for more than 30 years, during which time they have
experienced numerous successes and failures.
"Do they still need others' guidance for clearing up any errors?
" Zhao said. "Moreover, the Chinese cannot easily give out the
details of their own rocket design. How can the Americans who
don't know the ins and outs of the thing give any guidance?"
Since China has the ability to independently develop the
carrier rocket, it certainly has the ability to solve the problems
related to its flight technology, Zhao said. China has never, and
has no such need to "acquire" the sensitive technology of the
Untied States through the investigation of errors.
China launches the U.S. satellites strictly in accordance with
the agreement between the governments of the two countries, he
said. The security of U.S.-made satellites was under the strict 24-
hour control of the U.S. side, he said. However, the Cox Report
claims, "It would be surprising if the PRC has not exploited
security lapses while U.S.-built satellites and associated
equipment and documents were in the PRC."
This is really surprising to wantonly make such a subjective
assumption, especially when it is unable to prove that China "has
stolen" sensitive U.S. technology through commercial launches,
Zhao said.
The Cox Report not only slanders China "stealing" U.S. nuclear
weapon and missile technology, but also charges that China has
applied the advanced U.S. technologies in the areas of high-
performance computer, civil aviation and precision machinery for
military purposes, Zhao said.
And, based on this, it suggests the United States intensify
control over the export of dual-purpose commodities and technology
to China. It even unreasonably demands China should establish a so-
called open and transparent system which enables American
nationals designated by the United States to examine on the spot
the end-users without advance notice, he said.
This is a hegemonic act that disregards China's sovereignty and
violates the basic norms governing international relations. China
by no means agrees with this, Zhao said.
A short time ago, the U.S.-led NATO used missiles to attack the
Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia, which has been strongly condemned
by the Chinese Government and people and the international
community, he said.
It seems totally intentional that the Cox Report was published
under current circumstances. It is another adverse current against
China among the series of anti-China incidents created by some
people in the United States over recent years. Their purpose is to
divert public attention, fan anti-China feelings, defame China's
image and try to hold back Sino-U.S. relations so as to contain
China in its development. This attempt is doomed to fail, he said.
China will unswervingly persist in taking economic construction
as the central task, adhere to reform and opening up, and stick to
the independent foreign policy of peace, Zhao said.
China is a peace-loving country. China develops its scientific
and technological undertakings and its national defense strength
for the purpose of safeguarding the national security and
interests, and maintaining the State sovereignty and world peace.
China opposes hegemonism, and China will never seek hegemony,
he said.
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