The report, Proliferation Security Initiative, 2006, to the congress was to confirm if the advances of US policy alongside the interests of the public to reduce China’s role in missile and proliferation of weapons. China’s technology was under criticism by its recipients like Pakistan for supporting terrorism and supporting countries like North Korea and Iran. The CRS report is a warrant which discusses China’s role and its national security problem in weapon proliferation.
These issues are related to the US policy and the mid 1990s legislation in weapon proliferation. China’s supplies have led to ambiguous technical aid which has led to aggravated trends in longer-range missiles, indigenous capacity and secondary proliferation. According to the Director of Central intelligence report to the congress, China is a predominant supplier of chemical and missile technology and a key supplier of weapons.
In 2000 the Bush administration in collaboration with various United Nations Security Councils addressed North Korea’s and Iran’s nuclear programs. These two countries were given multilateral suctions to pressure them in ending their enrichment in nuclear. However, China’s previous vote for these resolutions in various occasions, it started to water and delay the terms in collaboration with other Security Council members.
This resulted to weakening the results of the weapon sanctions imposed by the US resolutions. These sanctions meant that Iran was not too supported financially in any trade because of its involvement in sensitive nuclear activities and development of systems for nuclear weapon development. All states were required to inspect any ship in it territory.
As a member of the P5+1 Countries, the Principle Deputy Assistant secretary Mc Nernet told the congress that China has retaliated from the P5+1 Countries which include Russia, UK Germany, France, US and china. China blocked talks on further sanctioning Iran (Wetzel, 2009, pp 131)
Reference
Wetzel, L (1999) Report to Congress of the U. S. -China Economic and Security Review Commission DIANE Publishing, pp 131.
