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THE WEEK, Page 16WORLDSelling Spree
The U.S. Commerce chief's Chinese trip reaps contracts and
controversy
Human-rights violations and military secrets notwithstanding,
George Bush just loves to do business with the Chinese.
According to officials in his own Department of Defense, he's
still at it, right to the end. Pentagon technology watchdogs
were appalled to learn on the eve of Commerce Secretary Barbara
Franklin's trade trip to Beijing that her department had cleared
the way for the Chinese military to buy 15 jet engines made by
Garrett, a division of Allied-Signal. Not only would the sale
enhance China's military capability, but it could further
destabilize the Middle East by extending the range of Silkworm
cruise missiles available to Chinese clients Iran and Iraq --
in certain cases to intercontinental distances, say the Pentagon
critics. "Now we wonder, what else did they cut loose?" said a
worried top Administration official.