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- THE WEEK, Page 16WORLDSelling Spree
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- The U.S. Commerce chief's Chinese trip reaps contracts and
- controversy
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- 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.
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