Hillary Clinton had her own plans for Ron Brown, and those included China. While alive, Brown knew more about the Chinese than he wanted to. After their attempted seizure of the Long Beach Naval Station, says Hill, "He never stopped being afraid." And Long Beach was just one thing out of many that he knew he shouldn't have known.In time, U.S. intelligence sources would learn of Chinese plans to use the naval station as a base for espionage – no surprise there – and Congress would kill the deal. But Congress intervened only after Brown had died. Like the other minorities in the Cabinet, Brown was not just exploitable. He was expendable.
Congress did not kill the Clinton deal which arranged for loans for COSCO to have ships built in Mobile, Alabama.
Congress did not kill the Clinton deal which arranged for a loan for a nuclear reactor that powers a warship-building yard in China.
Congress did not kill the subsequent arrangement for COSCO to build and lease a terminal in the Port of Long Beach.
Congress did not interfere with COSCO getting an exemption from US laws which "discriminate" against state owned shipping companies.