Trading missile tech for Chinese money

by Eugene on October 16, 2009

in World

In his latest move President Obama fails in foreign, military, and economic policies all at once:

President Obama recently shifted authority for approving sales to China of missile and space technology from the White House to the Commerce Department — a move critics say will loosen export controls and potentially benefit Chinese missile development.

The president issued a little-noticed “presidential determination” Sept. 29 that delegated authority for determining whether missile and space exports should be approved for China to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke.

This “presidential determination” is baffling, considering that U.S. missile and space  technology should be a guarded secret and a matter of national security. I can understand that communist China has opened up its economic and diplomatic gates to the world, but that doesn’t preclude it from being a threat, especially with the military modernization we’ve witnessed.

Additionally, China has been known to export weapons technology to rogue nations such as Iran and North Korea, knowingly pouring gasoline to a fire that are the world’s most unstable regions.

The rise of the Chinese military machine has so worried its nearby neighbors that they have abandoned hope in complete dependence on America’s military might. Japan, South Korea, Australia, and Taiwan are all working to strengthen their defense systems and even developing their own offensive machines.

But thanks to the deteriorating U.S. economy and the administration’s poor decisions to fix it, we now depend on China to prop up the U.S. dollar and therefore, our financial well-being. The president is so scared of China that he’s refused to meet with the Dalai Lama and now, giving up our missile and space technology to appease the communists halfway around the world.

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