Political Quotes

“this past weekend the Washington Post ran articles on a Bush administration decision to impose sanctions on a Chinese company that it found to be transferring sensitive missile technology to Pakistan in violation of last November's agreement to terminate such transfers. Two of my colleagues, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and I just returned from a visit to Pakistan, and we expressed concerns about the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction technology in that area of the world. We are very aware of the situation which could easily evolve in that part of the world because of tensions between different countries that could inadvertently result in the use of nuclear weapons, something no one in the world wants to occur. Part of that is because of the willingness of countries such as China to transfer technology to countries that could use those weapons. Sunday's Washington Post article to which I referred noted that the decision to impose sanctions on the Chinese Metallurgical Corporation came over the objections of Asia experts in our State Department who 'had warned that this could further fray Sino-American relations.'”