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发帖数: 4978 | 2 好像没有对中国领导层的评价，就有帮助朝鲜伊朗发展武器的cable。
China pressed over Iran and North Korea's nuclear trade
Embassy cables show US urging Beijing to stop shipments amid claims Chinese
firms may be supplying materials
The US insisted that China act "urgently" to halt a transshipment of
ballistic missile components from North Korea to Iran via Beijing and
complained that at least 10 similar missile-related deliveries had been
allowed to proceed unhindered.
The US also accused Chinese firms in May this year of supplying Iran with a
key chemical weapons precursor and assistance with operating a chemical
manufacturing plant.
An internal cable dated 3 November 2007 and signed by Condoleezza Rice, the
then US secretary of state, says a North Korean cargo of missile jet vanes
destined for the Shahid Bagheri Industrial Group, which runs Iran's solid-
fuelled ballistic missile programme, was due to be shipped to Iran from
Beijing on the following day aboard a scheduled Iran Air flight.
In what is termed an "urgent action request", Rice instructed the US
ambassador to raise the issue "at the earliest opportunity" and "at the
highest level possible" to persuade the Chinese authorities to halt the
delivery. Rice told the envoy to remind the Chinese that George Bush had
personally raised the shipment with the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, at a
recent meeting – an indication of the importance Washington attached to the
issue.
"The [state] department is seeking both immediate action ... and a strategic
approach with regards to this critical issue," Rice's cable states. "We now
have information that the goods will be shipped on 4 November and insist on
a substantive response from China ... We assess that the best way to
prevent these shipments in the future is for Chinese authorities to take
action ... that will make the Beijing airport a less hospitable transfer
point."
Washington's worries about Iran's conventionally armed short- and medium-
range ballistic missiles are linked to suspicions that the missiles could be
used to deliver a nuclear warhead should Iran develop the capability.
It is not known whether the US demarche induced the Chinese to halt the 4
November 2007 delivery, but regardless of that Iran's missile programme is
making rapid advances. In May last year Iran successfully tested the Sejjil-
2 two-stage solid fuel missile. Its range of up to 2,500km means it could
reach Israel, Arab countries and parts of Europe. Both the Sejjil and the
liquid-fuelled Shahab-3 missile, derived from a North Korean design, are
theoretically nuclear capable.
Although North Korea continues to resist international anti-proliferation
efforts, the US has put pressure on China to curtail its missile-related
collaboration with Iran, which dates from the 1980s. The cable refers
specifically to Iran's attempts to obtain tungsten-copper alloy plates from
China's Dalian Sunny Industries.
In another cable, sent by secretary of state Hillary Clinton in May[205348],
the US said it was concerned that exports by named Chinese firms "could be
used for or diverted to a CW [chemical weapons] programme". Clinton asks
whether the suspect transfers were approved by the Chinese government and
warns that sanctions may be imposed.
"We request that the Chinese government take all steps necessary to
investigate this matter and to prevent Iran from acquiring dual-use
equipment and technology that could be used in its CW program."
Analysis of the Iranian missile threat last month by Arms Control Today
suggested US pressure on Beijing has produced mixed results. "In a November
2000 commitment to the US, China pledged that it would not assist 'in any
way, any country in the development of ballistic missiles that can be used
to deliver nuclear weapons' ... Nonetheless the US state department assesses
that Chinese companies have continued to assist Iran's ballistic missile
programme," it said.
In an almost desperate bid to get Beijing's attention the cable contains a
so-called non-paper – an unofficial, non-binding message – for
presentation to the Chinese. With American frustration barely concealed, the
non-paper notes the US has raised its concerns with Chinese officials on
numerous occasions and lists at least 10 instances in which it claims North
Korean shipments of ballistic missiles parts to Iran passed unimpeded
through Beijing.
"We believe that this trade will continue to utilise regularly scheduled
commercial passenger flights ... We urge you to prevent such shipments via
whatever action you deem appropriate," it says.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/28/china-iran-north-korea-nuclear |
