Eric Hirschhorn, the U.S. Commerce Department's Undersecretary for Industry and Security, this week criticized as disproportionate the Chinese complaints about U.S. export controls being trade barriers. "Licensed trade accounts for less than half of a percent of U.S. exports to China," Hirschorn said in a Nov. 2 press conference. "The Chinese make a bigger deal out of it than they should." He spoke before the Nov. 10 meeting of the U.S.-China High Technology Working Group, a government and private-sector dialogue...