In recent weeks, it has been reported that the Clinton Administration has knowingly allowed the transfer of American nuclear missile technology to China - an action that puts not only U.S. national security at risk, but also the world's. Those technology transfers may have helped the Chinese make their missiles more accurate by improving their guidances, more deadly through multiple warheads on each missile, and more likely to survive launch and hit their target.

That technology may soon improve Iranian missiles as well.  The attached CRS study documents nearly two dozen transfers of missile technology and materials by China to Iran and Pakistan - transfers that are clear violations of U.S. law and international treaties. Worse, as the chart shows, those dangerous, illegal, and destabilizing transfers have gone almost completely unacknowledged and not responded to by the Clinton Administration.

The Chinese have conducted at least 45 nuclear tests.  They have used U.S. technology to improve missiles pointed at U.S. cities, and they have been the world's worst offender in aiding the proliferation of the nuclear demon.  Yet despite the overwhelming evidence of continuing Chinese misbehavior, the Clinton administration has continued its failed policy of accommodation and acquiescence.

In stark contrast to the Clinton policy of accommodation toward Communist China, the Administration roared with outrage when a democratic Indian government chose to test it nuclear capability. India is a country facing a potential threat from China.  China has deployed nuclear missiles in neighboring Tibet, improved its missile capabilities with U.S. assistance, and never renounced it claim of Eastern India. As India's defense minister recently noted: "China is potential threat No. #1."

But the Clinton administration would much rather confront an Indian democracy than anger a Chinese dictatorship. The double standard in Administration actions - disregarding China's far more dangerous actions while sanctioning India - is appalling. With one hand the Clinton Administration gives China access to sensitive missile technology, while the other slaps India for trying to protect itself from the consequences of this improved technology.  I commend the attached to your review.

Sincerely,

Newt Gingrich
Speaker of the House