Chinese authorities 'have taken a markedly harder line than in previous years' in insisting on state-of-the-art technology from foreign companies, according to an article earlier this year in the China Business Review by two Beijing-based lawyers, Douglas C.

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As recently as November, an independent panel, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, encouraged the Bush administration to initiate discussions with Beijing designed to curtail space militarization.

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But industry officials and legal experts say Beijing could lift its suspension of approvals for new nuclear plants when it releases a report on the review, possibly by year's end.

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