China's Arms Export Policy and Responses to Multilateral Restraints  

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Kamal, Nazir

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs vol. 14 no. 02 (Sep. 1992), page 112-141.
Topik: China

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In contrast to the pattern of preceding decades, financial considerations (namely, hard currency earnings) played a salient role in China's arms export policy during the 1980s. Earnings from arms exports rose sharply, mainly due to the Iran-Iraq war. Arms transfers by China aroused American concerns, particularly when ballistic missile sales began to undermine u.s. non-proliferation objectives in the Third World. Under considerable U.S. pressure (backed by credible threats to withdraw the most-favored-nation status to ,China), Beijing agreed to join the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and reluctantly offered to respect the U.S.-sponsored Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). Meanwhile, China continues to resist Western schemes for general restraints on conventional arms transfers as well as proposals for transparency in arms trade. China's status as a major arms supplier has been declining in recent years, in comparison to the 1980s, and its near-term prospects of regaining such a status do not look promising.

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