Beijing devoted to weakening 'enemy' U.S., defector says

The Washington Times ^ | June 27, 2005 | Bill Gertz

[neverdem]

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Beijing devoted to weakening 'enemy' U.S., defector says

By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published June 27, 2005

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China's communist leaders view the United States as their main enemy and are working in Asia and around the world to undermine U.S. alliances, said a former Chinese diplomat.

    Chen Yonglin, until recently a senior political officer at the Chinese Consulate in Sydney, Australia, said in an interview that China also is engaged in large-scale intelligence-gathering activities in the United States that, in the past, netted large amounts of confidential U.S. government documents from agents.

    "The United States is considered by the Chinese Communist Party as the largest enemy, the major strategic rival," Mr. Chen told The Washington Times in a telephone interview from Australia, where he is in hiding after breaking with Beijing in May.

    All Chinese government officials are ordered to gather information about the United States, "no matter how trivial," he said. "The United States occupies a unique place in China's diplomacy," Mr. Chen said.

    A pro-democracy activist who took part in the 1989 demonstrations in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, Mr. Chen, 37, spent 10 years as a Foreign Ministry official. He said he defected and sought political asylum in Australia to highlight repression of the Chinese people by their government and the ruling Communist Party, as well as the repression of dissidents such as democracy activists and the Falun Gong spiritual group.

    Most Chinese government activity in the United States involves information-gathering carried out by military-related intelligence officers or civilians linked to the Ministry of State States and sent it back to China through the Cosco ship,"

[Echo Talon]

Just nuke it and get it over with already. load up wht b-2's, F-117's & F-22's after the first strike unleash the subs. have the country leveled in 30 minutes.

[lewislynn]

Beijing devoted to weakening 'enemy' U.S., defector says

Why did "Walmart" come to mind?

[snowsislander]

"I know that China once got a heavy load of confidential documents from the United States and sent it back to China through the Cosco ship," Mr. Chen said, referring to the state-owned China Ocean Shipping Co.

I think it would be wise for our intelligence and counter-intelligence folks to take a close look at Cosco.

[ex-Texan]

'Surprise, surprise, surprise . . . Sheezam!'
-- Gomer Pyle

[jonrick46]

It is good that the media is starting to report what we at the Free Republic knew about the Chicoms. You can trust the Communists to be Communists.

[Terpfen]

"Starting to?" Gertz has been on China for a long, long time, probably longer than Free Republic has existed.

[Rockitz]

...netted large amounts of confidential U.S. government documents from agents.

No $sh1+! Yet, another Clinton Legacy.....

[Mr. Keys]

What's so bad about that? Cheap junk, corporate profits, and cheap labor trump national security anyday. Plus, we've been told many times that relations with our "friends" have never been better.

[Wiz]

ping

[TigerLikesRooster]

RE #10

Oh, nothing surprising, just more corroboration.

[expatguy]

You mean "Supplies! Supplies! Supplies!"

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[IronMan04]

Wal-Mart is a Chinese Agent.

They even had Hillary on their Board of Directors.

[BringBackMyHUAC]

I think it's about time our leaders started dealing with this issue head-on. Is that too much to ask?

[WestVirginiaRebel]

It's the Asian Long View. They've had years to plot and plan.

[AnimalLover]

I think it would be wise for our intelligence and counter-intelligence folks to take a close look at Cosco.

They won't - no one pays any attention. I wrote Jane Harman about the COSCO entry into the Port of Los Angeles. Her reply, not to worry, all is well and we are watching closely.

Incidentally, it was COSCO that was caught smuggling MK-17's at Oakland some time ago. How do you suppose the gangs get want they need? Nothing ever happened as far as I know.

Aloha Ronnie can give even more input on this subject. AR, are you there?

[CaptSkip]

Who would a thunk it???

Arkansas' Billary and Hillary and Wal-Mart, hand in hand with the ChiComs, doing everything they can, each in their own way,

To TOTALLY F*** this Nation!

[Rebelbase]

Sun Zu's 2000 Millennium Maxim: "Weaken your enemy by dominating his economy and making his population lazy and deliriously happy to buy cheap goods that fund your military buildup".

[libertylover]

China's communist leaders view the United States as their main enemy and are working in Asia and around the world to undermine U.S. alliances, said a former Chinese diplomat.

Yes, and they're getting help from within the U.S. by an organization called the Democrat Party.

[tkathy]

That should really please the hate America democrats.