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- <text id=91TT0823>
- <title>
- Apr. 15, 1991: China's Eager Missile Merchants
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 15, 1991 Saddam's Latest Victims
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 17
- China's Eager Missile Merchants
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- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- <p> Relations between the U.S. and China are being threatened
- by Beijing's renewed efforts to sell the weapons and technology
- of mass destruction. Intelligence sources say the Chinese
- delivered M-11 missiles to Pakistan last month. The M-11, with
- a range of about 180 miles, is capable of carrying nuclear
- warheads. Meanwhile China is offering Syria M-9 missiles, which
- have a range of about 375 miles. Last month Assistant Secretary
- of State Richard Solomon flew to Beijing to protest the sales.
- China's missile mongering means Beijing has turned its back on
- a commitment to Washington that it would no longer sell such
- weapons in the region. Despite the U.S. pressure, China seems
- determined to continue the arms bazaar. Beijing officials are
- well aware that the U.S. is reluctant to stop Syrian President
- Hafez Assad--an allied coalition partner in the gulf war--from making a major weapons purchase.
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- </body></article>
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