Posted on May 11, 2015
GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad
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The deal would allow Beijing to buy more U.S.-designed reactors and pursue a facility or the technology to reprocess plutonium from spent fuel. China would also be able to buy reactor coolant technology that experts say could be adapted to make its submarines quieter and harder to detect.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obamas-quiet-nuclear-deal-with-china-raises-proliferation-concerns/2015/05/10/549e18de-ece3-11e4-8666-a1d756d0218e_story.html?hpid=z1
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SFC Michael Hasbun
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It's China. A peer country. This is just another trade agreement. It's not like it's huge leaps and bounds over what they already have. This just puts money in our pockets and grants them no further advantages. It's just efficient.

For the fear mongers', once again, this is China. Their Army is massively larger than ours. Give each one of them a rock, and they would be just as powerful as other armies with advanced weaponry, just by size alone. They could have nuclear powered Gundam robots and it wouldnt matter all that much. Alliance is pretty important, and business deals/mutual cooperation make for the best alliances...
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And we owe them millions of dollars as well.
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SFC Michael Hasbun
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Non issue. Everybody owes everyone millions of dollars. Side effect of a global economy.
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SrA Edward Vong
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I love your Nuclear powered Gundam Robots! LOL
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Edited 9 y ago
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This will be another highly debated topic just like the Iranian nuclear agreement was and still is! I agree with the author that the biggest issue that will hold this agreement back will be the sale of dual use items that could make their subs quieter and less detectable by U.S. Intelligence. We know for a fact that China is putting a lot effort into advancing their naval power. This combined with their controversial claimants in the South China Sea and over the Senkaku Islands have made for a tense climate in the Pacific. This is not the time to be assisting China, albeit unintentionally, with their nuclear sub capabilities. I understand we are trying to grow closer to China however we should not do so in a way that could hurt us or our allies in the years to come. I can see this deal going through if dual use issue was removed.
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GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad
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I have the same thoughts with regard to this. But, to be honest, I am also a bit troubled about how the Administration has apparently tried to keep this one under the radar.
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I am curious as to how politicians are gullible enough to believe the Chinese will keep up their end of the "deal".
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Yes it is a renewal but with a renewal come changes to the previous agreement to include additions like the ones mentioned in the article. This is news to me and I thank GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad for bringing the topic to our attention.
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Uhm "Deal with China" kind of says it all.
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