It is important to recognize that this is not accidental or random. Cox said his committee informed the president about its findings on January 3, more than two months before that news conference. On Sunday, China's ambassador to the United States, Li Zhaoxing, strongly denied that his country stole U.S. nuclear secrets.
China is innocent.
The Chinese espionage, I believe, is probably the most serious that we have ever had in this country. He did not give a date. The National Security Council and the CIA asked in recent days to take a complete look through the whole report again. Cox's bipartisan investigation initially focused not on espionage but on two American companies, Hughes Electronics Corp. and Loral Space and Communications, which allegedly supplied rocket technology to the Chinese after the failure in 1995 and 1996 of Chinese rockets carrying U.S. satellites. Our laws do not permit this.