Critical Releases in Homeland Security: November 28th, 2007

"This Report sets forth the Commission's analysis of the U.S.-China relationship in the topical areas designated by the Commission's Congressional mandate; these are the areas the Commission is to consider, and about which it is to make recommendations to the Congress. These include China's proliferation practices; the qualitative and quantitative nature of economic transfers of United States production activities to China; the effect of China's development on world energy supplies; the access to and use of U.S. capital markets by China; China's regional economic and security impacts; U.S.-China bilateral programs and agreements; China's compliance with its accession agreement to the World Trade Organization; and the implications of China's restrictions on freedom of expression. Our analysis, along with recommendations to the Congress for addressing identified concerns, is chronicled in the Report and summarized herein. Congress gave the Commission the mission of evaluating 'the national security implications of the bilateral trade and economic relationship between the United States and the People's Republic of China,' and reporting its evaluation to Congress annually together with its findings concerning the topical areas listed above. The Commission adopts a broad interpretation of 'national security' in making its review and its evaluation of how the U.S.-China relationship affects the economic health and industrial base of the United States, the military and proliferation risks China poses to the United States, and China's threat to U.S. economic and security interests and influence in Asia. In its four previous major reports to Congress, the Commission outlined several trends in the economic and security relationship between the United States and China."