A number of our allies no longer appear to regard China as being of strategic concern and have dismantled export restrictions on a range of dual-use technologies. The result is, that some U.S. controls have become increasingly unilateral and thus ineffective as restraints on China's ability to acquire advanced technology. Security and nonproliferation remain central to our dialogue with the Chinese, and have a profound effect in shaping high tech trade with China. We have serious differences with China on a variety of nonproliferation issues and have consistently engaged China to bring its practices into line with international norms. We have made notable progress in the nuclear area and are working to broaden this dialogue and to promote cooperation between the US and China on other security issues.
China is in the midst of broad social, economic and political change.
The Administration's goal of engaging China to influence its evolution to an open, market-oriented society shapes our technology transfer policies. A stable, prosperous and open China at peace with its neighbors is in the best interests of the entire world, including the United States, and appropriate transfers of civil technology can help achieve that goal. Export controls are one of the principal tools we use to manage technology transfer. Tiananmen Square sanctions prohibit the export of arms, satellites and dual-use items used for crime control unless there is a Presidential waiver. U.S. policy since Tiananmen Square is to deny export of controlled dual-use technology to the Chinese military and police.