China under The Wassenaar Arrangement Restriction. Options

[antimatter]

This is the about dual use technology restrictions formed by group of countries. The members are
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States.

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Take a look at the list, and think, CHina, soon to be number 2 biggest and one of the most impoertant economies in the world has to subject to this type of restriction. What's Estonia, Malta, Romania, Slovakia ..et doing there?? And I see communist countries inside too.

I only see asian countries there, Korea and Japan the two supposedly well behaved Asian model citizens according to the west.

Is this some kind of exclusive club??

http://www.wassenaar.org/introduction/index.html

Do you think it's comical and a farce? Something serious wrong with the picture?

If you take a look at that list, with exceptions of few exceptional minority model countries that follow the west... I tempting to use the word racist.

obviously, with Russia being a member, one of hard core dictatorship communist country.. So, this tells me it has nothing to do with ideologies.
Communist and Democratic. Race is a much bigger factor.

[bigbomb]

you guys really misunderstand this. please spend at least five minutes reading their site before making your comments.

they are not just directed towards china. they have guidelines against terrorism and sale of small arms too. the actual export controls are implemented by each individual country. the inclusion of Russia tells you it's not a geopolitical "club" that shares among themselves but restricts others. It's just like one of those many "philanthropic" "feel good" organizations western countries love and J and K love to emulate.

the real teeth against china are the US arms embargo and EU arms embargo. these are specifically controlling exports to china citing the tiananmen incident. Wassenaar has nothing to do with those.

[antimatter]

the real teeth against china are the US arms embargo and EU arms embargo. these are specifically controlling exports to china citing the tiananmen incident. Wassenaar has nothing to do with those.

To me, this is the real deal, dual usage restriction has hampered China's commercial development which far more fundamental across the board in one country advancement than its arms embargo.

Because if China 's commercial advancement to certain degree, its arms development would advance naturally as a byproduct .

This post has been edited by antimatter: Jun 20 2009, 06:26 PM