Meeting With U.S. Campaign Aides Shows China's Interest in the Race

The Washington Post ^ | June 28, 2007 | Michael Abramowitz

[Ike869]

One of China's top government officials reached out to the leading U.S. presidential contenders last week, holding an unpublicized meeting with several of their top foreign policy advisers during a visit to Washington for high-level talks with Bush administration officials.

Among those present for the dinner with Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo on June 19, according to people familiar with the encounter, were top advisers to Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), former senator John Edwards (D-N.C.), Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R).

Others present for the dinner meeting at the Metropolitan Club included former CIA general counsel Jeffrey H. Smith, representing the Clinton campaign; former Navy secretary Richard J. Danzig, representing Obama; former State Department official Derek Chollet, representing Edwards; former State Department policy planning chief Mitchell B. Reiss, representing Romney; McCain's national security adviser Randy Scheunemann; and Antony J. Blinken, staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an adviser to Biden. The campaign of former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani reportedly was invited to send a participant but did not do so.

[Ike869]

Nothing to see here...move along, move along...

[Nachoman]

No question which horse they’re going to put money on.

[JRochelle]

Horse?

Don’t you mean cow?

[rhinohunter]

They must be salivating at the possibility of the return of the two-headed dog from hell.

[Enchante]

"former CIA general counsel Jeffrey H. Smith, representing the Clinton campaign"

I realize it should be no surprise when top CIA or other gov't officials are in the tank with the Clintonistas, but I wonder if this guy has any connections with helping Plamegate to move forward in its squalid progress????

[americanophile]

"Among those present for the dinner with Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo on June 19, according to people familiar with the encounter, were top advisers to Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), former senator John Edwards (D-N.C.), Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R).

Hmmm, could there be a pattern here...let's see...Biden = Democrat, Clinton = Democrat, Edwards = Democrat, Obama = Democrat, McCain...

[TheZMan]

For all the McCain and Romney supporters...

HEY, GLOBALISTS, SEE, LOOK.

All your state are belong to China, dumb Americans.

[Bender2]

Re: Among those present for the dinner with Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo on June 19, according to people familiar with the encounter, were top advisers to Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), former senator John Edwards (D-N.C.), Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R)

Fred... what do we do if we find these candidates are receiving illegal Chinese funds?

Simple, Laura... we convict them sumbitches, then put them in the calaboose and throw away the key!

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Going by past history, the Chinese will buy them all.

[Ike869]

What is perplexing to me is how this article got missed even by Freepers...it’s 3 weeks old! If not for a post on World Tribune, I would have missed it, too.

Anybody know that Rush has this? I’m not a subscriber (yet).

[DBrow]

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