Hu Says U.S. Should Give More High Technology to China

[kurth]

April 21 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. should export more high technology to China and stop making political judgments about the Asian nation to improve relations between the two countries, China's President Hu Jintao said.

``Ideological obstacles and prejudices shouldn't impede'' relations between the two countries, Hu said in an address delivered today at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. China also ``won't simply copy the political models of other nations,'' Hu said in answer to a question about political freedom.

The U.S. restricts exports to China of some products with technology that can be used for military purposes. China's government blames these restrictions for a widening trade surplus with the U.S., which has prompted some lawmakers including Senator Chuck Grassley to call for trade sanctions against China.

The trade partnership is contentious because of last year's record $202 billion U.S. trade deficit, which many companies blame on China's currency, weak intellectual property protection and curbs on market-access...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aCliFHFDa81Q&refer=top_world_news

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Why? So they won't have to go through the trouble of stealing it

themselves?

[MADem]

2. Awww, they want to trade it for plastic crap at WALMART!

Hell, no matter what we do, we're probably screwed...

[LiberalPartisan]

3. My thoughts exactly.

Capitalism, Mr. Hu, involves exchanging money for good and services

[lvx35]

4. I wonder how that effects the trade surplus...

If we sold China military technology, wouldn't they just start selling it back in the form of $12.99 stinger missiles at Wal-Mart? ;)

[flobee1]

5. I see another

Nukes for Mangoes deal in the making

[DrDebug]

8. China loves to buy weapons in massive amounts

And upto now they haven't been able. They are biggest weapons importer in the world, however upto now it's mainly Russian weaponry. Eventually they'll sell it back, but right now they have a technological disadvantage to the US, so Hu loves to be able to purchase the latest technology.

Don't forget that people like * only have short term objectives, so it'll be an advantage to the trade deficit until 2008 when China is a significant military power as well as a significant economical power.

[lvx35]

9. I'm just confused why they can't make their own

I mean, it seems like all kinds of our technology is manufactured over there, so its not for a lack of parts, I wonder what specifically they need from us.

[DrDebug]

10. Hi-tech military weapons

The Russian technology is nice, but they want a state of the art military force and they are more than willing to buy it to "balance the budget." They have state of the art normal technology but no weapons technology has been allowed to be exported yet...

The amount is a secret but China already buys more than $30 billion (and probably a lot more) worth of military technology and equipment each year and US and most of Europe is off limits because of the trade embargo after that "Tianamen Square incident."

[lvx35]

11. It seems like they are lacking innovation.

IT seems with that much money they could just pour it into research and development and come up with comparable stuff.

[DrDebug]

12. Buying is a lot cheaper

They can afford to buy $200 billion of weapons from the US each year. Just think of the weapons you can build yourself from simply cloning that. It's the easiest way to become a real superpower and I think * is greedy enough to allow it, because hey it'll be at least 10 years before they are comparable and by that time * is retired and only doing some odd jobs for Carlyle.

First get the economy. Then get the military...

[lvx35]

13. But wouldn't the benifit just be closing the trade gap with China?

Would that help * at all? I thought his constituency only understood oral sex and Pat Robertson. ;)

[enid602]

6. Iran

I'm sure Bush will give them the technology (and maybe even Taiwan, too) if Beijing gives Bushco the go-ahead to bomb Iran.

[lvx35]

7. Sadly, you are probaby right.

But that doesn't mean China would do it. The truth is that Iran seems to be valuable to China and Russia, and if they put their heads together they could rival us. I mean hell, Russia put the first man into space!