Posted on 06/28/2004 11:38:59 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
A congressional commission on China stated in a report recently made public that Israel has become China’s largest arms and weapons technology supplier after Russia.
The report stated that the panel "continues to be concerned over Israeli transfers of U.S.-origin technology to China."
In the 1990s, Israel was caught selling China Patriot anti-missile technology that U.S. officials say has ended up in Chinese air defense weapons.
Israel in January 2003 suspended sales of arms to China that could harm U.S. security and a U.S.-Israeli discussion channel was set up to deal with the transfers.
The report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, established under a 2000 law, disclosed that Amos Yaron, director-general of Israel’s defense ministry, restarted Israeli arms transfers to China in March 2004.
According to the report, while the details of the talks are not known, "the commission understands that Israel has offered training facilities, including one for urban warfare, to train China’s security forces for the Olympics."
Israeli companies are discussing a range of sensitive weapons-related sales to China, including exports of sensor and observation systems, security fences, microwave and optics, training, metal detectors and packages for airport and vital facilities security."
The report said Israel is also helping China develop unmanned aerial vehicles and is selling Tavor personal assault weapons, pilot training systems, advanced communications and surveillance gear and several types of UAVs.
Israeli HARPY anti-radiation drones have been spotted during Chinese exercises near Taiwan.
"The HARPY is designed to detect, attack, and destroy radar emitters," the report said. "These systems pose a significant threat to various critical military C4ISR facilities on Taiwan as well as to U.S. operational forces operating in the region. The UAV has a range of about five hundred kilometers and contains a high-explosive warhead."
uh oh I don't like the sound of this
One-way friendship.
This isn't the first time I've heard of this. Sometimes though, any anti-Israeli comment posted bashed bloody here.
For me, the bottom line is...every political power is in bed with each other; they just don't realize who's f*cking who.
Israel's selling advanced weapons to the PRC is the surest way to lose a friend. I'm going to be watching this closely from here on out.
Israel doesn't give these countries squat. The technology that we call "advanced" is 1980's technology to Israel.
I lived in Israel for a while in the 1980's. My firends were in the IAF and used to joke about how out of date the systems were that the US sent to Israel. They would rip them out and put in their own.
Anything Israel is sending to China, the US more than likely already knows about it and has effective countermeasures for it.
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