State Department Noon Briefing, Friday, October 19

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
DAILY PRESS BRIEFING
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2000   12:50 P.M.
(ON THE RECORD UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED) 



Q: The Chinese ICBM program. There are reports that suggest the US
Government may have new evidence, or newly translated evidence, that
the Chinese may have acquired technologies related to that that are of
special concern, that they might have acquired them even from US
sources.


Are those reports accurate?



MR. BOUCHER: I have a very simple answer, and that is we can't comment
on intelligence matters. So I am afraid I can't help you with that. I
don't know about the agencies responsible for the investigation,
whether they have anything they can say in public.


Q: Can you talk at all about the Chinese ICBM program and whether it
has advanced recently in ways that cause any concern?


MR. BOUCHER:  No, I can't.  Sorry.




(The briefing was concluded at 1:30 P.M.)