ISRAEL'S DANGEROUS EXPORT TO CHINA Washington -- The Clinton Administration is lobbying the Israeli government and an Israeli company to halt the sale to China of an advanced fiber-optics telecommunications system containing U.S.-made microchips. Although the system is for civilian use, intelligence officials fear the sale would give China the potential to build a sophisticated military command-and-control system that would be almost impossible to monitor. The trouble is that liberalized post- cold war U.S. export laws leave officials largely powerless to stop the transaction. Israel has agreed to halt the sale temporarily while the U.S. studies the problem.
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