2012-07-23 — (freebeacon.com and by Bill Gertz) The Obama administration recently notified Congress that it has agreed to license exports of sensitive U.S. space technology to China from a U.S. company that was fined in the past for illegally supplying space support that improved Chinese ballistic missiles.
The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, the unit that licenses exports of sensitive technology, notified House and Senate leaders on Wednesday of plans to go ahead with an export license for a deal between Space Systems/Loral and AsiaSat, a company owned in part by a Chinese state-run investment company linked to past satellite deals in the 1990s.
Additionally, U.S. government reports indicate that China’s People’s Liberation Army, which is currently engaged in a major space warfare program that involves anti-satellite missiles and lasers, used AsiaSat communications satellites in the past.
An intelligence report produced by the National Air and Space Intelligence Center stated that AsiaSat satellites were used by the People’s Liberation Army for military-related communications.
Congressional investigators who have been probing the Loral-AsiaSat deal since earlier this year are questioning whether it is legal under U.S. export laws and restrictions on transfers to China.
Documents obtained by the Free Beacon reveal that the Obama administration appeared to ignore two U.S. laws prohibiting space cooperation with China. They include sanctions against selling military goods to China imposed after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre by Chinese military forces, and a 1999 law requiring all space exports to China to be treated as military transfers.
The State Department justified its approval of the Loral license as permitted under the 1992 U.S.-Hong Kong Policy Act, which the department said exempts Hong Kong from other U.S. laws restricting exports of space technology and defense goods to China. The British colony reverted to Beijing control in 1997.
Investigators determined that AsiaSat is owned under a joint venture between General Electric Co. and state-owned China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC). The two companies set up AsiaSat in the British Virgin Islands and named it Bowenvale Ltd.
GE’s plan to create the joint venture as a 50-50 ownership structure was opposed by State’s Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance in 2007. Instead the ownership was structured so that GE and CITIC each owned 37.2 percent, with the remaining 25.6 percent ownership sold as stock on the Hong Kong exchange.
The State Department opposed the 50-50 ownership split over concerns it could give China a potential controlling interest.
However, congressional investigators also learned in June that AsiaSat plans to privatize the publicly held portion of the company in an apparent bid to avoid regulatory sanctions and compliance obligations of public companies.
The State Department told investigators in response that it held discussions with AsiaSat and agreed AsiaSat would not allow the privatized stock shares to be purchased by Chinese or other entities restricted from gaining access to U.S. space technology.
David S. Adams, assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, stated in a July 18 letter to Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Sen. John Kerry and House Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and their minority counterparts that unless Congress objects, the export license will be issued for the $263.4 million deal between Loral and Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co., Ltd (AsiaSat) and its Hong Kong representative, Barry Turner, a Canadian resident of Hong Kong. Thailand’s Thaicom Public Co., Ltd. also is part of the deal.
U.S continue to develop missile defense system and spread them around the globe, in which the missiles can turn into nuclear weapon with simple change of warheads. There is no need for china to hold back any nuclear weapon development with this fake “nuclear nonproliferation” the u.s been preaching for the past 2 decades.
This is bullshit. America is trash.
ZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZ…….Wake me up,when you guys have something inteligent to say….And you stop making bias statements…..but we all know that will never happen!
“This is bullshit. America is trash.” China is a joke!
america is garbage.
If it wasn’t for America,China would have no economy,so to say that,makes you look like the idiot you really are….YOU ARE GARBAGE!
america doesnt export coal, oil, or gas to China to run its economy. Its biggest export to China is its debt. Im going to say something very non-biased and very objective. At this very moment, if the us was to disappear, China’s economy would be infinitely much better off.
China would be much better off. I only support Chinese products and Chinese companies because the Chinese think that competitiveness in the global market is beneficial to China. In some ways, this is true. But under the current circumstance, it isnt.
Because China isnt exporting its goods and services to pay down a foreign debt that it owes. It isnt exporting its goods and services in order pay for the import of goods and services. China exports and goods and services so that it can collect global debt.
That debt doesnt produce any benefit to China. Until that debt is cashed, its just mis-allocated resourced. Hence why China would be infinitely better off without america and its debtors.
If it wasn’t for China, there would be no U.S debt spending to invade a single country in the past 2 decade.
If it wasn’t for the two world wars, U.S remains the isolationist soft-power.
Pyro if you hate China so much so, wouldn’t you agree that america is garbage for making china strong? rofl
We will beat philipine poor and china, and Truong Sa will we get back into the sovereignty of Vietnam, because we are the largest power in southeast asia
The only nation that can beat the Americans on the battlefield is that we the people of vietnam and this is the pride of our nation
@ pyro fuck you
Take your blinders off and cut the crap!
If it wasn’t for greedy,American politicians,appeasing to corporate America,China would not be part of the WTO! Therefore,China would still be poor,and have no economy or technology to speak of! So stop praising the commie Govenment,they had nothing to do with theitrecinomic rise! Thank Greedy coporate America,who wanted cheap labor,so they can make record profits!
Don’t worry my friends,China’s rise,will be one of the shortest in history! The signs are already there! Plus,oppressing the people of China will not last forever,they will rise up and crush their oppressors one day soon!
If anyone is sucking on grapes,its you,just look at your face lol
american investment in China is like 3 billion dollars a year. In case you dont know what 3 billion looks like, globally speaking, its chump change. HK invests around 50 billion dollars a year in China. China invests over 200 billion in the us.The truth of the matter is, China would be infinitely better off without america. There would be less resource consumption, less competition for the global market. China would wouldnt also have to waste resources on accruing american debt.
I dont even buy american technology and american brands. Its all trash. americans dont buy them either hence the trade deficit.
CCP will always be around, america is garbage.
Don’t worry, China did rise and fall in history. But even under imperial rule, they lasted longer than U.S, which already begin to fall in less than a century.
Usually day dreaming of pyro’s, projecting his “great” “prophecy” on China with his 2 cents of imaginary garbage based on signs.
I recommand Feng Shui class if you like signs so much pyro.
Take your blinders off and cut the crap!
becouse greedy, american politicians,appeasing to corporate oil ,american agression attack ! to irak , libya and south china sea Therefore,China would still be strenght ,and american have no economy or technology to speak of china ! So stop saying the human right , they had nothing to do with human right ! Thank’s Greedy America goverment ,who wanted cheap oil ,so they oil coorporate can make record profits!
Don’t worry my friends,oils cheap,will be one of the longest in history! The signs are already there! Plus,oppressing the people of libya , irak , suriah and iran will crushed for agression america do it one day soon!
If anyone is sucking on grapes,its you,just look at your face lol
I swear,its like the blind,leading the blind!
Good job on letting people use the same username on this board! What a fucking joke,must be one of the two idiots,that run this website!
Ever since the big change with this site,there are like five people that post,great job screwing it up!
At least dick and head post everyday,thats all that matters I guess,right?
I swear,its like the blind,leading the blind!
good job on all my posts are always using the Pyro username , there are no one cloning usernames run this website , only a idiots would assume there are username cloning
remember there is no one cloning username on this website , Pyro is my username , you must known it now
At least dick and head post everyday,thats all that matters I guess,right?
Pyro ist mein Benutzername