After promising to let the Russians inspect our nukes last week, now Obama wants to make sure the commies in China don’t feel left out, so we’re going to loosen up our restrictions on missile exporting so that they can buy our components.
So Russia gets to steal our nuke technology we’ve protected for 60 years and China gets to buy our missile parts we’ve protected for, well, about the same amount of time. This has EPIC WIN written all over it.
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.
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Edward Timperlake, a Pentagon technology-security official during the George W. Bush administration, said he agrees that the new policy likely will loosen export controls on dual-use technology that could be used to boost China’s large-scale missile program.
China’s military recently displayed new long-range and cruise missiles during a military parade in Beijing marking the 60th anniversary of communist rule.
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Mr. Timperlake said the new policy is “greenlighting engagement with China in very bad areas that will negatively impact United States’ national security.”
More sacrificing of our national security to promote “transnationalism” and “extend the open hand” to tyrants. Obama’s complete and utter ineptitude when it comes to national security is only matched by his ignorance of the Constitution.
