Israel’s defense minister said he had received assurances that China would not pass on technology to Iran that could be used for weapons of mass destruction. Yitzhak Mordechai made his comments after a 90-minute meeting with Chinese President Jiang Zemin in Beijing. Mordechai is in Beijing to build defense ties between Israel and China.
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