While this initiative has important technology security implications in its own right, it is doubly troublesome for the strategicrepercussions that will likely attend increased Soviet energy exports.
This disparity can only exacerbate New START's negative strategicrepercussions at a time when the Kremlin is trying to intimidate U.S. allies by moving such weapons closer to their nations.
Disputing Secretary of Defense William Cohen's recent assertions that rejection of PNTR with China would have serious strategicrepercussions on the United States and Asia, these organizations have made clear that increasingly aggressive Chinese behavior should not be rewarded by removing the annual review of China's trading status.