Pakistan Deal Signals China's Growing Nuclear Assertiveness - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publica...p;id=40685 Wrote:Contrary to guidelines adopted in 1992 by nuclear equipment supplier states in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), China is poised to export two power reactors to Pakistan. This transaction is about to happen at a time when China’s increasingly ambitious nuclear energy program is becoming more autonomous.

Guidelines of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), representing 46 NPT states, call on parties to the NPT not to supply nuclear equipment to non–nuclear-weapon states without comprehensive IAEA safeguards, including Pakistan. China joined the NSG in 2004.

The United States and other NSG states may object to the pending transaction but they cannot prevent China from exporting the reactors. Senior officials in NSG states friendly to the United States said this month they expect that President Barack Obama will not openly criticize the Chinese export because Washington, in the context of a bilateral security dialogue with Islamabad, may be sensitive to Pakistan’s desire for civilian nuclear cooperation in the wake of the sweeping U.S.–India nuclear deal which entered into force in 2008 after considerable arm-twisting of NSG states by the United States, France, and Russia. The United States may also tolerate China’s new nuclear deal with Pakistan because Obama wants China’s support for United Nations Security Council sanctions against Iran this spring.

Maybe (Probably) Obama won't say anything because we wants China to keep buying our bonds......

SonOfaMotherFuckingBitch, this pissesmeoff to the nth degree. I say if China goes through with this we should threaten to nationalize the Chinese debt.

How will India play now that China has signed a deal w/ Paki? Does this mean we are about to p*** on India? Obviously India will need a powerful friend and we know how Americas friends are being treated these days. Do the Pakis take offense we have been lobbying bombs in there lately? Does China want to support enemies to slow play us to death? ....Geopolitics.....

The Russians have been the "usual" supporters of India in its conflict with Pakistan.

However, I don't know what the fuss is about. Pakistan already has nuclear weapons, so the Chinese selling them reactors is no big deal.

(04-27-2010 06:07 PM)SumOfAllFears Wrote:  SonOfaMotherFuckingBitch, this pissesmeoff to the nth degree. I say if China goes through with this we should threaten to nationalize the Chinese debt.

HAAAAAAAAAAAA HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA


You know, I actually hope that happens. Get our financial apocalypse and the potential formal death of this once great country over with.

(04-27-2010 09:59 PM)NIU05 Wrote:  How will India play now that China has signed a deal w/ Paki? Does this mean we are about to p*** on India? Obviously India will need a powerful friend and we know how Americas friends are being treated these days. Do the Pakis take offense we have been lobbying bombs in there lately? Does China want to support enemies to slow play us to death? ....Geopolitics.....

Don't forget that under the Bush administration, we have already reached agreement with India to be the supplier of choice of nuclear fuel. This is actually encouraged under the NPT - the idea is that US Enrichment facilities are used and there is no incentive for India to develop (expand) their own, thus being a net benefit wrt to the NPT. One of the interesting subtexts is that India's fuel cycle will produce Plutonium as an intermediate fuel, but supposedly the end product results in plutonium that is not weapons grade.

(04-27-2010 10:05 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  However, I don't know what the fuss is about. Pakistan already has nuclear weapons, so the Chinese selling them reactors is no big deal.

Agreed. The symbolic value is important, IMHO. First of all, the cost of IAEA compliance is probably negligible, and this could all be done by complying with the treaties. But, it seems to me a harbinger of what life will be like when China transitions to the most powerful nation on the planet (after the end of this administration, it's hard for me to conceive of any other result).