1.   Beijing appears to have stopped shipping nuclear materials and technologies to installations that bar international inspectors.

2.   Iraq has barred its inspectors also.

3.   It also suggests that Baghdad continued renovating and repairing such illegal facilities after barring international inspectors from the country three years ago.

4.   Iraq has barred inspectors since last December after American and British warplanes struck Baghdad for not cooperating with the inspections.

5.   Since then, the Iraqi government has barred U.N. inspectors from returning, demanding instead that sanctions be lifted immediately.

6.   The solution is for China to refuse to sell to countries that bar inspectors from any facility.

7.   U.N. inspectors have been barred since last December, leaving Baghdad free to rebuild its stocks of deadly toxins, germs and nerve gas in secret.

8.   A party leader, standing on the steps of the two-story, stucco building, has declared that inspectors will be barred if they try to return.

9.   Baghdad has barred inspectors from the U.N. Special Commission from returning.

10.   Baghdad says it has done so, but it has barred inspectors from the country for nearly three years.