DATE=5/20/99
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-249594
TITLE=CHINA / U-S (L-ONLY)
BYLINE=STEPHANIE HO
DATELINE=BEIJING
CONTENT=
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INTRO:  CHINA IS LASHING OUT AT AMERICAN ALLEGATIONS BEIJING 
STOLE U-S NUCLEAR SECRETS AND MADE ILLEGAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO U-S 
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS.  V-O-A'S STEPHANIE HO REPORTS THE CHINESE 
GOVERNMENT SAYS THE U-S ACCUSATIONS HAVE BEEN INTENSIFIED TO 
DIVERT ATTENTION FROM THE NATO BOMBING OF THE CHINESE EMBASSY IN 
BELGRADE.

TEXT:  IN RECENT MONTHS, CHINA HAS COME UNDER FIRE IN WASHINGTON 
FOR  TWO THINGS -- ALLEGED THEFT OF U-S NUCLEAR WEAPONS SECRETS 
AND  ALLEGED ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS.

BOTH ISSUES HAVE RECENTLY RESURFACED -- AS ETHNIC CHINESE 
DEMOCRAT CAMPAIGN SUPPORTERS GO ON TRIAL IN THE UNITED STATES FOR
MAKING ILLEGAL DONATIONS AND THE U-S CONGRESS REVIEWS ACCUSATIONS
CHINA STOLE U-S NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY.

AT A REGULAR NEWS BRIEFING THURSDAY, CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY  
SPOKESMAN ZHU BANGZAO -- SPEAKING THROUGH AN INTERPRETER -- 
DENIED THESE ACCUSATIONS.

       // ZHU / INTERPRETER ACTUALITY //

  SOME PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES CLING STUBBORNLY TO COLD-WAR  
MENTALITY AND TRY EVERY POSSIBLE MEANS TO CREATE RUMORS 
SLANDERING THAT CHINA HAS STOLEN THE U-S NUCLEAR WEAPONS 
TECHNOLOGY. 

         // END ACTUALITY //

HE ADDED THAT CHARGES OF CHINA'S INVOLVEMENT IN MAKING CAMPAIGN 
CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES ARE A FABRICATION.

MR. ZHU SAID THESE ALLEGATIONS ARE UNFOUNDED COUNTERCHARGES THAT 
WERE INTENSIFIED AFTER NATO MISSILES STRUCK THE CHINESE EMBASSY 
IN  BELGRADE EARLIER THIS MONTH.

       // ZHU / INTERPRETER ACTUALITY // 

 THEY ARE TOTALLY DRIVEN BY SOME ULTERIOR MOTIVES, FOR THE REAL  
PURPOSE OF INCITING A CHINA THREAT THEORY AND ANTI-CHINA 
SENTIMENT, AND SHIFTING PEOPLE'S ATTENTION FROM THE EMBASSY 
BOMBING CASE. 

         // END ACTUALITY //

THE NATO MISSILE ATTACK ON THE CHINESE EMBASSY KILLED THREE 
PEOPLE AND SPARKED FOUR DAYS OF HUGE AND SOMETIMES-VIOLENT 
PROTESTS IN BEIJING.  THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT CONSIDERS NATO TO BE
DOMINATED BY THE UNITED STATES.  (SIGNED)

NEB / HO / WD 

20-May-99 6:15 AM EDT (1015 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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