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The article focuses on a debate between delegates from China and the U.S. at the United Nations conference on climate change in Bali, Indonesia. China seeks the sharing of cutting-edge renewable energy technology between developed and developing countries at reduced costs. The article relates that companies from the U.S. are not willing to support technology transfer that infringes their intellectual property rights. It is also stated in the article that China wants access to carbon capture and sequestration technology.

Talks about the espionage and illegal transfer of missile technology to China by American corporations like Hughes and Loral. Reason United States President Bill Clinton is to be blamed on the issue; Details on the memo written by Jonathan Fox, an attorney on the arms-control staff of the Defense Special Weapons Agency; Congress' behavior towards the espionage.

Comments on the modernization of the Chinese armed forces using stolen or imported United States (US) technology. Testing conducted by China on W-88 missile technology; Technology transfer policy of the US; Issues faced by US legislators.

Reports that on June 18, 1998, the United States (US) House voted to create a panel to investigate the transfer of United States technology to China. Details on the vote; Investigation of the waivers granted to American satellite manufacturers by President Bill Clinton; Significance of the vote; Details on the US Justice Department investigation involving Loral Space and Communications Limited and the Hughes Space and Communications Company.