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Last week, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig suggested on national television that I should be "jailed for perjury" for criticizing U.S. government plans to permit a company controlled by the Chinese military to operate a strategic port facility in Long Beach, Calif.Gen. Haig has always been something of an authoritarian control freak. No one conscious at the time President Reagan was shot will ever forget his chilling "I'm in control here" statement from the White House. But his offhand call to jail a journalist exercising his First Amendment rights raises other questions. Haig is proudly listed in official publications...

After a 2.5 hour briefing to the Senate Armed Servicess Committee today by CFIUS representatives from various Departments on the facts and details of the UAE port acquisitiong from P&O, Sen Clinton (who will no doubt have company in this) will still introduce legislation bent on stopping the port sale until there is an additional 45 day investigation into potential security risks. CFIUS members, including Robert Kimmitt (Dep Treasure Sec'y), Michael Jackson (Dept DHS Sec'y), Radm Gilour (Asst. Commandant for Prevention), Jayson Ahern (Asst. Commissioner, Customs & Border Protection) were among the plethora of experts willing and able to answer...

Clinton linked to 'international trafficking in women' Documents show presidential mission invited organized crime members Posted: October 26, 19991:00 a.m. Eastern By Charles Smith © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com Despite White House denials, the Clinton administration has had major contacts with Asian organized crime syndicates such as the Triads, and has befriended kingpins of international prostitution operations. Unraveling the tangled web involving Bill Clinton, Beijing and Asian organized crime starts with the president's close, and self-described "old," friendship with Arkansas restaurant owner Charlie Yah Lin Trie. Trie, who managed to donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bill Clinton and the Democratic party, is...

China COSCO Holdings Ltd., a unit of China's largest shipping firm, made a lackluster debut Thursday on Hong Kong's stock market, opening 11 percent down from its initial public offering price. The company raised $1.22 billion in third big mainland Chinese IPOs this month. The stock started trading at 3.80 Hong Kong dollars (49 cents), quite a bit below its IPO price of HK$4.25 (55 cents) and even worse that analysts' gloomy projections. The stock dipped as low as HK$3.70 (47 cents) during morning trading. "It's a disaster for a major issue of this size," said Francis Lun of Fulbright...

I am trying to help a friend write an article, but we need a graphic that we both once saw. Does anyone know of a map that shows the location of Chinese owned ports in the western hemisphere that they have taken over in the last 10 years?

China Cos. Show Appetite for Brand Names By ELAINE KURTENBACH, AP Business Writer Wed Jun 22, 8:50 AM ET China is moving into the merger-and-acquisition major leagues, as its star corporations shop for American household names like Unocal, Maytag and IBM, hoping that global ambitions will mean bigger profits. State media reports quoted unnamed officials at China National Offshore Oil Corp., or CNOOC, as saying the company's board would meet this week and decide whether to go ahead with a $20 billion bid for Unocal Corp., the ninth-biggest U.S. oil and gas company. The CNOOC purchase, if it went through,...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned on Friday that China's failure to match economic freedoms with democratic reforms could raise tensions and undermine its growing influence in the world. On way to a regional security conference that is expected to focus on China and North Korea, Rumsfeld drew a stark contrast between China and India, the world's largest democracy, which America is courting as a counter-weight to the communist nation. "We anticipate that the relationship with India will continue to be strengthened. With respect to China, it's not completely clear which way they are going because you have...

Operation Sidewinder. It sounds like a Hollywood spy movie starring Harrison Ford. For a long time, Sidewinder moldered on the shelf as just another conspiracy theory. In reality, Sidewinder was a controversial report put together by a small but hard-working team of RCMP and CSIS (Canadian Security & Intelligence Service) officials. It was Sidewinder that sounded the first alarm bells that China is one of the greatest ongoing threats to Canada’s national security and Canadian industry. But even after Sidewinder was side swiped by former Prime Minister Jean Chretien, intelligence proves that there is no doubt that an active Chinese...

Cosco Pacific to bolster container business

As San Jose prepares to rebid a botched $8 million contract that favored Cisco Systems equipment for its new downtown City Hall, City Manager Del Borgsdorf on Tuesday said he has launched a nationwide search for legal and technical experts to help keep the process clean. In reporting to the council on the latest from the technology scandal, however, Borgsdorf provided no new details about expected construction delays or cost overruns to the $388 million project. And not one council member, or Mayor Ron Gonzales, questioned him about the problems. Borgsdorf said only that city officials were attempting to ``restore...

Wang Jun's excellent White House adventure By Jack Cashill © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Soon after Ron Brown returned from New York to pick up a reported $1.2 million from Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz, he learned he would be meeting – by order of the White House – with a character by the name of Wang Jun. The sheer bravado of Wang Jun's petition and the brazenness of the Clintons in welcoming him leave one awestruck. Wang Jun chaired Poly Technologies, a company controlled by the People's Liberation Army. According to a Rand Corporation report forced from the U.S. Department of Commerce...

QUESTION: If the Chinese were denied use of the old Naval Shipyard at the Port of Los Angeles due to security reasons, why are they taking over the old Todd Shipyard a short distance away? I have tried for over a year and no one can or will answer this for me. Can anyone help me?

With eyes of the world focused on the Middle East and Korean peninsula, the United States must not ignore signs of trouble emanating from its strategically important and friendly neighbor in Central America: Panama. This country houses the famous Panama Canal that, for nearly a century, has served as a prime U.S. economic and national security interest. The 50-mile American-made waterway is a spectacular engineering feat. It separates North and South America and provides merchant ships and military vessels an 8,000-mile shortcut to U.S. ports on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. In today's dollars, it cost about $7 billion to...

Hutchison Whampoa Teams With U.S. Defense Firm for Port Security Li Ka-Shing Seeks U.S. Contract Hutchison Whampoa Teams With U.S. Defense Firm for Port Security Hutchison Whampoa, the firm that currently runs both ends of the Panama Canal, is teaming up with an American technology company in a bid to win tens of millions of dollars in U.S. port security funding. Three companies - Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., PSA Corp. Ltd. of Singapore, and London-based P&O Ports - will test an advanced electronic system manufactured by California-based Savi Technology to ensure the security of cargo entering U.S. ports. Hutchison Whampoa's effort...

Vancouver and Halifax Ports Go Unguarded Amid renewed concern over new terror attacks against America, Canada has left its ports unguarded. Canada has removed its police on the ground inside the port facilities of Vancouver and Halifax, reportedly in response to budget shortfalls. According to U.S. and Canadian intelligence officials, the ports are currently "wide open" for terrorist infiltration. The lack of police to patrol and inspect these ports of entry has raised concerns inside the U.S. that al-Qaeda terrorists may use the unguarded entry points as landing areas for attacks on America. Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston are...