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Focuses on the report of a bipartisan select House committee on Chinese acquisition of secret United States military technology including nuclear weapons design. December 30, 1998 approval of the report by committee members; Statement from Representative Christopher Cox (R-Calif.) on the report's findings; Details from witnesses and intelligence officials.

Reports that United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers in China informed their headquarters in March 1966 of payments made to Chinese officials in hopes of securing contracts. Failure of CIA headquarters to respond to reports of payments by Bansang W. Lee, a consultant who worked for Hughes Space and Communications and for Loral Space and Communications; Comments from US officials, Hughes and Loral spokesmen.

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.

Looks at the policies of United States President Bill Clinton on exporting technology. Reforms of Clinton; Ties between high-technology companies and the Democratic Party; Criticism of Clinton's policies by Republicans; Claim that the exporting of technology strengthened countries that the US considered to be adversaries; How China has benefited from the policies.

States that the United States Justice Department is near a decision on whether to indict one of China's most powerful state-owned corporations. Indictment charges on China National Aero-Technology Import Export Corp.; Possible violations of American export laws by McDonnell Douglas; Relation between Beijing and Washington.

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.

Reports the May 25, 1999 release of a Congressional report that describes a pattern of systematic and successful Chinese espionage to learn American nuclear weapons information. Identification and response of the committee that commissioned the report; President Bill Clinton's acknowledgment of the need for heightened national security; Implications for relations with China and for domestic politics; Details of the report.

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 the unanimous May 20, 1999 conclusion of a United States House of Representatives committee that China systematically stole significant US nuclear design secrets. Impact of the stolen information on the acceleration of China's weapons program and the parity of Chinese weapons information with that of the US; Scheduled release of the report; Details; Implications.

Reports that United States intelligence assessments show China close to deploying a nuclear missile known at the Dong Feng-31 with a warhead whose design draws on stolen American weapons information. Details of May 1999 estimates of China's nuclear intentions; President Bill Clinton's response to the intelligence report.

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 a November 1998 secret report to top officials of President Bill Clinton's Administration warned that China posed an intelligence threat to United States nuclear weapons laboratories and that laboratory computer systems were being penetrated. Timetable of the investigation of the breaches in security; Details and source of the report; Distribution; Connections to Chinese scientist Wen Ho Lee; Report conclusions.

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 that China has used nuclear weapon secrets stolen from a United States Government laboratory, according to administration officials. Details of the rapid progress that China made in the development of nuclear weapons; Approximate date at which the espionage occurred; Date at which it was detected; A suspect, an American scientist at the Los Alamos laboratory where the first atomic bomb was developed.

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.

Reveals that China has benefited from spying on the nuclear weapons technology from the United States. Investigation conducted by the United States government on the spying activities of China; Highlights on the reports presented by the government; Future nuclear development program of China from technology stolen from the United States.

Reports on the objection of the United States Department of Energy to the public disclosure of the China spy data. Comments from Representative Christopher Cox, a California Republican; Support for the decision to block the release of nuclear weapons information.

Reports that the United States House of Representatives extended the life of a special committee examining Chinese acquisition of American technology on January 6, 1998. Plans of the committee; Secrecy of the committee's findings; Hearings conducted by the committee.

Discusses the Clinton Administration's reconsideration of whether to allow the sale of communications satellite equipment to a Chinese-controlled company with close ties to the military. Approval of the deal in 1996; The satellites' role in a commercial mobile phone network planned for China and other Asian nations; Inclusion of an antenna that could also be used by the military; Details of the arrangement and growing United States concern.

Discusses the classified intelligence documents released in June of 1998 which reveal that the United States had knowledge that the Chinese military was using American-made satellites sold for civilian purposes for communication among disparate garrisons. Efforts to determine whether US national security has been damaged; Why the Clinton Administration feels it is impossible to stop China from using American satellites; Plans to prevent China from developing their own satellites.

Reports that the White House released internal documents showing that President Bill Clinton approved the Chinese launching of an American satellite on February of 1997. How Clinton approved the launching after his top staff advised him that the economic and diplomatic advantages outweighed the opposition of Federal prosecutors; How Clinton overruled Justice Department objections; Why Republicans question the President's decision.

Looks at the easing of rules that shifted the balance between United States security and commerce with China. Changes in control of export licensing for communications satellites; Secretary of State Warren Christopher's 1995 order preserving limits on China's ability to launch US-made satellites aboard Chinese rockets; Shift of control to the Commerce Department under Ron Brown; Chronology of the change and details of the turf war.

Questions the role of United States business in policy on China as of April 1998. Case of satellite technology exported by companies that gave money to Democrats; What was illustrated by an examination of the Administration's handling of the case; The roots of the criminal investigation of Hughes and Loral Space and Communication; A key issue being whether Hughes satellites were civilian or military, a murky question in the export control laws.

Reports that a federal grand jury is investigating whether two United States companies illegally gave China space expertise that significantly advanced Beijing's ballistic missile program. Impact on the inquiry of President Bill Clinton's early 1998 approval of the export to China of similar technology by one of the companies under investigation; Justice department opposition to the approval.

Reports that a United States federal criminal inquiry has uncovered evidence, as of April 22, 1997, suggesting that the state-owned Chinese company Catic intended to divert American machine equipment to a military plant that builds missiles and fighter aircraft. The equipment, bought in 1994 from the McDonnell Douglas Corporation supposedly for civilian purposes; The evidence as presenting a challenge for the Clinton administration.

Reports that United States Commerce Department approved the sale of American machine equipment in 1994, despite the warning that China might use the equipment for military purposes. Diversion of the equipment to a Chinese military factory in 1995; Equipment sale under investigation by a Federal grand jury.

Focuses on China's purchase of American-made supercomputers. Number bought since the Clinton administration deregulated the export of computers in 1995; Fear among some United States intelligence officials and nuclear experts that the computers could be used by China to design more efficient or lighter nuclear warheads; Clinton administration officials defending the export policy; Provisions of the policy.

Comments on the satellite transfer deal Loral Space and Communications made to China. Views of the United States Justice Department, the Pentagon and senior White House officials on the deal; American President Bill Clinton's authorization of the deal in February 1998; Why President Clinton's approval of the Loral satellite launching was deemed as important; In-depth look at the issue.

Reports on the investigation being conducted by several United States Congressional committees into the policy of the American President Bill Clinton Administration for exporting space satellite technology to China, on April 15, 1998. Purpose of the investigation; Circumstances surrounding the investigation; Details on the investigation.

Presents information on the methods used by the United States Government pertaining to Chinese intelligence and military activities that affect the United States. Introduction of a bill; Creation of a center; Comments from Representative Nancy Pelosi.

Discusses the ramifications of the decision of the Chinese government to divert an American supercomputer to one of its military research facilities in early 1997. Information on original destination of the supercomputer; Issues raised as a result of the diversion; Measures taken by the United States to retrieve the computer.

Discusses the reaction of U.S. President George W. Bush to the proposed takeover of a major American oil company by a Chinese rival. Details of the offer by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation for Unocal, which had already made a deal to be acquired by American oil giant Chevron; How the issue is forcing the administration to confront its own internal rifts over U.S. relations with China; Focus on related economic and foreign-policy issues; Likelihood that the administration's numerous ties to the oil industry will become a political issue; Observation that the White House is avoiding taking a position; Divisions among Bush's advisers over how to proceed; Strategic reasons to keep the U.S.-China relationship stable; Implications of the proposed oil deal for the U.S. administration.