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The article focuses on the completion of trade talks between U.S. and Chinese negotiators on July 31, 2019 without resolving a trade war that has affective global economic confidence. Topics covered include the topics discussed by negotiators including forced technology transfer and intellectual property rights and the statement issued by Chinese officials on the need to rely on domestic demand to manage new risks.

The article focuses on the status of the trade agreement negotiations between the U.S. and China as of February 2019. Topics covered include the possible resolution of the fate of Chinese telecom company Huawei as part of a final trade deal, U.S. concerns about China's trade barriers and its treatment of U.S. companies, and the gaps that remain between the two countries on structural issues that include technology transfer.

The article reports on the initiative of China to cut tariffs on U.S. cars and other goods as part of its strategy to end trade dispute with the U.S. and assesses potential response of the U.S. Topics discussed are Chinese government's adjustment of foreign economic policy, proposed law forbidding Chinese officials to force foreign firms to transfer their technology to Chinese businesses, and actions to strengthen China's intellectual property protections against counterfeits and piracy.

The article reports that the U.S. and China are anticipating a time when their economic engines are not so closely connected, particularly in the area of high technology. The trade relationship between the two countries covers more than 700 billion dollars in goods and services. A trade war has forced U.S. and Chinese policymakers to rethink the trade relationship. China's Made in China 2025 plan is aimed at reducing reliance on Western technology.

The article discusses efforts by the Chinese government to obtain research findings from scientists working in the United States as of June 5, 2013, highlighting allegations that scientists working at the New York University (N.Y.U.) School of Medicine accepted bribes to share information with a research institute in Shenzhen, China. Topics addressed include findings presented in the book "Chinese Industrial Espionage," and technology transfer in China.

The article discusses several efforts by other nations to set up services like the U.S.'s Global Navigational Satellite System. Russia is planning on launching eight satellites by the end of 2007 which will initially provide services for Russia, but will offer global services by 2009. Their services will in direct competition to the American system. China and the European Union have similar plans.

Reports that Iran declared that it would soon resume some of the nuclear activities it had suspended during negotiations with Europe, and accused the U.S. and other nations of using the fear of nuclear weapons proliferation to deny peaceful nuclear technology to developing nations. Overview of the Iranian announcement, which was made by the spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Hamid-Reza Asefi, at the conference at the United Nations reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty; Reactions of European and President George W. Bush administration officials, including U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Approach of Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to Iran; Comments of ElBaradei; How the U.S. and its allies are confronting nuclear breakouts on opposite sides of the world; Belief that North Korea already possesses nuclear material for six to eight weapons; Outlook.

CHINESE goods, from textiles to tools to toys, have been flooding into America for years. But despite their repeated promises, Chinese automakers haven't begun to make a dent in the car market in the United States. For at least half a decade, Chinese manufacturers including Brilliance, Geely, Great Wall and BYD Auto have displayed vehicles at the Detroit and Los Angeles auto shows, often with news releases announcing plans to sell cars in the near future. But the cars never materialized in the dealer showrooms -- which also remain missing. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The House of Representatives approved President Bush's ill-conceived nuclear agreement with India last week, shrugging off concerns that the deal could make it even harder to rein in Iran's (and others') nuclear ambitions. We hope the Senate shows better judgment. For 30 years, ever since India used its civilian nuclear program to produce a bomb, the world has been barred from selling any nuclear technology to India. The deal -- pressed hard by American business and India's lobbyists -- would allow the United States to break that ban and open the way for the rest of the world to sell reactors and fuel to India as well. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that the International Atomic Energy Agency has announced on February 9, 2007 that it has suspended 22 of its 55 technical aid programs with Iran. The announcement has given a modest victory to the U.S. administration in its efforts to isolate internationally. According to the report by the agency to its board, it has also suspended some minor programs. The U.S. administration has objected the aid programs dubbing these as help to nuclear efforts of Tehran.

The article offers information on a nuclear deal between China and the United States. Under the deal, China will buy four nuclear reactors from Westinghouse Electric Corp. A memorandum of understanding for the reactors was signed between U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman and Ma Kai, China's National Development and Reform Commission, in Beijing, China, on December 16, 2006.

Analyzes the motivation behind U.S. President George W. Bush's recent shift in dealing with Iran's nuclear program. Bush's goal of rewriting the main treaty governing the spread of nuclear technology, without actually renegotiating it; How Bush has convinced European allies that Iran must give up its right to enrich uranium to produce electric power; Suggestion that Bush's argument amounts to a reinterpretation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty; Background on the treaty, whose intellectual roots date back to the Eisenhower administration; Administration's effort to close loopholes in the treaty letting Iran and others enrich uranium; Why Bush has not called for renegotiating the treaty; Analysis of the treaty; Agreement between Bush and the director general of the IAEA, Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, that established nuclear nations should supply fuel to countries that need it.

Focuses on the U.S. and the issue of nuclear nonproliferation. How lines have blurred as nuclear technology has spread; Suggestion that the President George W. Bush administration has sent conflicting signals about what it will do if diplomacy fails to disarm Iran and North Korea; Reference to Israel, India and Pakistan and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty; Comments of analysts; Question of how far the Europeans are willing to let the Iranians go in developing a civilian nuclear capability that could be converted to military use; Outlook.

Reports that, roughly a year after Libya disarmed and Pakistan put Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan under house arrest, the intelligence agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are still far from fully understanding Khan's atomic black market. Background on the rogue nuclear network led by Khan, chief architect of Pakistan's bomb; How the inquiry into Khan's global enterprise has been hampered by discord between the U.S. President George W. Bush administration and the IAEA; Khan's role as mastermind of the largest illicit nuclear proliferation network in history; Concerns; Outlook. INSET: A Nuclear Network Partly Revealed.

Reports on the plans by U.S. President George W. Bush to expand high-technology cooperation with India by easing export restrictions. Effects of the proposals on safety and regulatory issues on civilian nuclear activity, civilian space programs and peaceful uses of space technology and improved conditions for trade in sensitive technologies; Pros and cons to the proposals; Implications for international relations and world politics.

Reports the discovery by United States authorities of evidence that Chinese political contributions to the 1996 election were part of a campaign to obtain access to US high technology. Evidence of Chinese motivation that differs from the initial view of Federal investigators and a Senate investigatory committee; Basis of the view that the money was to enhance the political standing of the contributors. INSET: Big Contributor to Democrats..., by Christian Berthelsen.

Documents the conclusions of a Pentagon report on Hughes Space and Communications' assistance to Chinese missile programs. Conclusion that Hughes scientists helped Chinese engineers improve the success of rocket launches; The assistance's violation of United States policy against helping Beijing make better satellites and missiles; Security concerns; Details. INSET: The Trail of Dealings With China's Rocket Gear.

States that the United States Justice Department is investigating the Central Intelligence Agency for obstruction of justice. The issue of giving an American aerospace concern information about a Congressional inquiry involving the company, Hughes Electronics Corporation; Hughes being under scrutiny regarding the transfer of American rocket technology to China; Possibility that the inquiry of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was hampered by the leaked information.

Reports that an IBM subsidiary pleaded guilty in July of 1998 to illegally exporting advanced computers to a Russian nuclear weapons laboratory. IBM's agreement to pay a fine to the United States federal government; Russia's secret purchasing of the computers; The use of the computers improve Russia's simulation of nuclear weapons testing; The federal approval that is necessary to sell any computer to a Russian nuclear weapons plant; The difficulties of adhering to American legal standards in markets like Russia.

Reports on legislation approved by the United States Senate that would impose controls on the export of equipment and technology with military uses to Hong Kong and Macao in China. Statement issued by Senator John Aschroft, Republican of Missouri; Reaction of Victor Fung, chairman of Hong Kong Trade Development Council, on the accusations in the Congressional report led by Representative Christopher Cox.

Reports the October 19, 1999 indictment, by a United States grand jury in Washington, D.C., of the McDonnell Douglas Corporation and a state-owned Chinese aerospace company on charges of conspiring to hide details of a 1994 sale of machining equipment. Chinese military use of the equipment; Implications for relations between China and the US; Details of the indictment and responses.

Looks at technology transfer policies of United States President Bill Clinton's administration in light of the May 1999 release of a Congressional committee's report on the theft of US atomic secrets by Chinese spies. Role of the release of nuclear weapons information in US strategy to end nuclear proliferation; Criticism of the policy; Clinton Administration response to the Chinese espionage scandal; Discussion of implications.

Discusses the United States congressional investigation into China's suspected theft of American nuclear weapons information. Role of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in the initiation of the investigation; Planned publication of the report on the investigation; Implications for US national security, foreign policy and technology transfer.

Reports that American scientist Peter Lee, working on a classified United States government project in 1997, provided China with secrets about advanced radar technology being developed to track submarines. History of the case; Effects of the espionage charge and that of Wen Ho Lee in 1999 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory on the US.

Reports that Wen Ho Lee, a scientist suspected of spying for China at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, transferred secret data on United States nuclear warheads from a computer system there, compromising most nuclear weapons in the US arsenal. Date and details of the transfer; Utility of the information; Evidence of access to the information; Details of the investigation of Lee.

Reports that analysis by United States intelligence officials has concluded that China stole design data for the W-88 nuclear warhead from Los Alamos National Laboratory. Leadership of the committee that investigated allegations of illicit transfer of high technology to China; Other sources of information used by the Chinese; Controversy surrounding response of President Bill Clinton's Administration to reports of Chinese atomic espionage.

Reports United States President Bill Clinton's March 11, 1999 response to the suggestion that his administration had minimized evidence of nuclear spying by China and his defense of his policy of engagement with the Chinese. Details of his statement, made at a news conference in Antigua, Guatemala; Congressional investigation of the technology transfer from Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Reports the February 22, 1999 decision of the Clinton Administration to reject the sale of a Hughes Space and Communications telecommunications satellite to a business group with ties to the Chinese government. Role of national security in the decision; Impact of the decision on the future of high-technology sales useful to the Chinese; Implications for Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's March 1999 visit to China; Details of the rejected deal.

Reports that United States (US) President Bill Clinton approved the export of technology to China to permit the launching of a communications satellite aboard a Chinese rocket. Why the transfer would not pose security problems to the US; Effects of the decision to the launching of a Motorola Iridium satellite.

Focuses on the claim that China has stolen nuclear secrets from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States. Differences between the China espionage scandal and the Soviet atomic espionage; Fact about the dissemination of science and technology.

Focuses on the investigation conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into possible espionage at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Details on government officials' accusation that China stole nuclear weapons secrets from the laboratory; China's denial of the accusation; How the breach in American nuclear security occurred; Charges against Wen Ho Lee, a former computer scientist at Los Alamos.

Reports that a United States Defense Department review has concluded that two encoded circuit boards that disappeared after the failed 1996 launch of a US communications satellite in China were probably destroyed in the crash. June 1998 expressions of suspicion that the devices had been stolen from the wreckage of the Loral Space and Communications satellite; Lack of evidence of wrongdoing by Chinese authorities.

Reports that an encoded circuit board containing sensitive technology was missing from the wreckage of a United States satellite aboard a Chinese rocket that exploded in 1996. Disclosure of the information at a joint hearing of the US House of Representatives National Security and International Relations committees; Official suspicion that the circuit board was taken by Chinese authorities in violation of a technology agreement; Details of the investigation.

Reports that Loral Space and Communications engineer Wah L. Lim allegedly told the Chinese that he would help them improve the reliability of their rockets. Statement in an April 1996 letter to the China Aerospace Corporation; United States investigation of whether his participation violated export-control laws and damaged US security; Details of the governments arrangement with Loral and the inquiry. INSET: Letter to China company.

Comments on the efforts of the Italian auto company, Fiat to provide the technology of tilting trains to the United States rail network, Amtrak. Details of the technology; Fiat's comments on the efficacy of the technology. INSET: Leaning into the curves..

Reports the formation of Proximity X-Ray Lithography Collaborative Association by International Business Machines Corporation, the Loral Corporation, AT&T Corporation, and Motorola Inc. Advance research in building advanced memory and microprocessor chips as main aim.

Reports on the practice of the United States supplying technology to help Japan in its nuclear program, despite contradictory official statement. Greenpeace report on U.S. violation of Nuclear Nonproliferation Act; Announcement of U.S. Energy Department on curtailment of aid; Japan's statement on plutonium use; Description of nuclear reactors; Allegations against U.S. and Japan.

Reports on an investigation by the United States (US) Justice Department which examined whether official acts of US President Bill Clinton affected the US foreign policy and national security, while focusing on the involvement of US Vice President Al Gore, in the transfer of satellite technology to China. Reference to various presidential scandals in the United States; In-depth look into governmental investigations; Comments from President Clinton.

Discusses the investment of the American steel industry in technology to seek alternative methods for steel production. Reasons for seeking alternative methods by big companies and mini-mills; Description of the traditional method of making steel. INSET: Making steel in traditional mills requires a number of steps ....

Reports that the Clinton Administration will allow companies to market sophisticated spy satellite technology to commercial customers around the world. Gain for American industry; Administration's intention of emphasizing commercial and economic priorities over more traditional Cold War-era concerns about national security; Criticism; The new policy.