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The issue is also entangled in the -- increasingly bitter partisan debate over the administration's own eagerness to trade with China at a time when ten- sions between Taiwan and the main- land are growing. In unusually blunt language, Defense Secretary William S. Cohen blasted the Israeli sale at a Jerusalem news conference on Monday. "I have indicated before that the United States does not support the sale of this type of technology to China, because of the potential of changing the strategic balance in that region, with the tensions running high as they are betWeen China and Taiwan," he said. Cohen's demands were turned aside by Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who said he was "aware of the sensitivity in the United States with regard to China," but insisted that Israel has to fulfill "our commitment in the con- tracts we have signed." Israeli officials say the sale does not include any sensitive U.S. technology, and does not violate U.S. law; U.S. officials say that the advanced radars could be used against Taiwan, or even against U.S. forces defending the besieged island. Israeli officials also quietly point to Washington's own China trade — including the sale of supercomputers needed to produce and test nuclear weapons. Those same computers were held back from Israel on nuclear-pro- liferation grounds. The steadily increasing pressure couldn't have come at a worse time for pro-Israel lobbyists, who are working to ensure Israel's regular aid package • ••• 64 441 . • • .4•:- .3. 43 ••••••• a• ••• 3• • ••••••••••• d••••••••• •••••-- t•t.',3.•••••••• i 131 •4••••••34••••••••••:••••••• • • • • • • • • • • ► • • • • • • .• • • • • • • • • • ••Ik ili•4 • ••••14.3.31a.a.aa.aa a for the upcoming fiscal year in the midst of strong election-year pressure for more budget cuts. And pro-Israel groups, backed by a procession of Israeli officials, continue to prepare the political ground for a huge supplemental security package — upwards of $17 billion, by most estimates — that they hope to get from Congress in the event of a peace agreement with Syria. "There's almost no way we could do a new aid package without some kind of commitment from Israel that they'll scale back the China enter- prise," said an administration official. "We're already hearing enough talk from Congress that we know it is an issue we have to address. It creates both a military problem and a huge political problem." State Department spokesman James Rubin refused to directly link foreign aid to Israel's China sales, but he came closer than ever before. "I am not aware of any plan to respond by cutting aid as a result of this," Rubin said on Monday. "On the other hand, it's fair to say that if Israel were not to respond to our concerns that it would have some effect. Precisely what, I'm not prepared to speculate." Pro-Israel sources say the China controversy could inflame congres- sional Republicans, whose support for foreign aid is always tentative. Missiles For Egypt Even as Washington was putting Israel through a public wringer over its high-tech arms sales to China, the United States was announcing a sale of its own that is unlikely to go over well with military planners in Jerusalem. During his Mideast swing this week, Defense Secretary William Cohen announced that Egypt will get a new air defense missile, to - upgrade aging Soviet-era equipment. On the trading block: a new,. ground-launched version of the AMRAAM missile. Cohen made the announcement during a stop in Cairo on Monday. At the very least, some Jewish activists say, the sale represents a sig- nificant military reward for a country