DATE=5/31/99 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-250024 TITLE=CHINA / U-S (L) BYLINE=ROGER WILKISON DATELINE=BEIJING CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: CHINA HAS AGAIN HIT OUT AT A U-S CONGRESSIONAL REPORT ALLEGING THAT BEIJING STOLE U-S NUCLEAR SECRETS BY MOUNTING A 20-YEAR-LONG SPYING OPERATION TARGETED AT U-S WEAPONS LABORATORIES. V-O-A CORRESPONDENT ROGER WILKISON REPORTS A SENIOR CHINESE OFFICIAL SAYS CHINA HAS DEVELOPED ITS OWN NATIONAL DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY AND DOES NOT NEED TO STEAL FROM OTHER COUNTRIES. TEXT: USING WORDS LIKE "ABSURD", "RIDICULOUS" AND "NONSENSE", CHINESE CABINET SPOKESMAN ZHAO QIZHENG DISPARAGED THE CONGRESSIONAL REPORT MONDAY, CALLING IT A FARCE TO INSTIGATE ANTI-CHINA FEELINGS AND UNDERMINE SINO/U-S RELATIONS. THE REPORT, PREPARED BY A SPECIAL COMMITTEE CHAIRED BY REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE CHRISTOPHER COX, SAYS CHINA STOLE BLUEPRINTS FOR SEVEN TYPES OF U-S NUCLEAR WARHEADS AND THE NEUTRON BOMB. SPEAKING THROUGH AN INTERPRETER, MR. ZHAO DISMISSED THE CHARGE, SAYING CHINA IS AN INDUSTRIOUS AND INGENIOUS NATION AND HAS NEVER NEEDED TO STEAL INFORMATION FROM OTHERS TO DEVELOP ITS OWN WEAPONS. /// INTERPRETER ACTUALITY /// CHINA IS FULLY CAPABLE OF INDEPENDENTLY DEVELOPING ANY SOPHISTICATED NATIONAL DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY. COX AND OTHER ANTI-CHINA POLITICIANS IN THE UNITED STATES, TURNING A BLIND EYE TO (IGNORING) THESE FACTS, HAVE TRIED THEIR BEST TO PLAY DOWN AND DENY THE CHINESE PEOPLE'S INNOVATIVE CAPACITY IN DEVELOPING SOPHISTICATED NATIONAL DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY. /// END ACTUALITY /// MR. ZHAO ACCUSES THE COX COMMITTEE OF SLANDERING THE CHINESE NATION AND ENGAGING IN RACIAL PREJUDICE BY BELITTLING ITS SCIENTIFIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS. HE SAYS THAT, DURING THE 1960'S -- WHEN THERE WERE VIRTUALLY NO CONTACTS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES -- BEIJING DEVELOPED ITS OWN ATOMIC AND HYDROGEN BOMBS AS WELL AS ITS OWN MISSILE PROGRAM. MR. ZHAO SAYS THE COX COMMITTEE JUST CANNOT SEEM TO ACCEPT THAT CHINA WAS ABLE TO DEVELOP ON ITS OWN ADVANCED WARHEADS SIMILAR TO THOSE IN THE AMERICAN ARSENAL. /// INTERPRETER ACTUALITY /// IF WE GO ALONG THE LINES OF THIS LOGIC, THEN THAT IS TO SAY ANY SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ACHIEVEMENT ATTAINED BY OTHER COUNTRIES -- PARTICULARLY THOSE DEVELOPED FASTER THAN THE UNITED STATES -- COME FROM THE TECHNOLOGY STOLEN FROM THE UNITED STATES. THIS IS WILDLY ARROGANT. /// END ACTUALITY /// MR. ZHAO SAYS CHINA DID NOT NEED TO STEAL ANYTHING. HE SAYS BLUEPRINTS OF NUCLEAR WARHEADS AND OTHER U-S WEAPONS ARE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE AND CAN EVEN BE ACCESSED ON THE INTERNET. (SIGNED) NEB/RW/FC/KL 31-May-99 7:42 AM EDT (1142 UTC) NNNN Source: Voice of America .