Nice. And I recall Duncan Hunter scuttling the Chicoms and Romney’s attempts to sell 3-COM to the PLA.
http://blog.barofintegrity.us/2007/12/15/republican-debaters-ignore-china-threat.aspx
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Just as in the Democratic debate, China was mentioned in the Republican debate only in connection with toxic toys imported from China. It was said by Rep. Hunter that China makes, by unfair trade, a lot of money, which China needs. Said Hunter: “They are clearly [!] arming.”
I nearly fainted: to recognize that China is “clearly[!] arming”! No other presidential candidate reached aloud such a horrible, cynical, dangerous conclusion!
The word “clearly” is worth comment. The fact is that the dictatorship of China can conceal the development of nano weapons able to annihilate the United States (or the West as a whole), just as the United States concealed the Manhattan Project’s “atom bombs” until two of them were dropped on Japan. But much weaponization of space or oceans cannot be concealed and hence the word “clearly” — China is “clearly arming.”
For example, last year, a former U.S. top naval official said that China’s navy is to consist of 600 battleships, while the U.S. navy is to consist of 150 battleships. Of course, battleships on high seas cannot be concealed.
McCain defined as “isolationists” those “who were for bringing our troops home from Iraq.” But what about those who do not even mention the “China threat”? Surely China is more dangerous than was Saddam Hussein’s Iraq with his (mythical) “weapons of mass destruction.”
It is forgotten that China began to test its nuclear weapons in 1964. And today “nuclear weapons” are obsolete as offensive weapons (due to Mutual Assured Destruction), and China is developing post-nuclear (such as nano) super-weapons.
Unwilling to notice the military development of China, McCain and all the other Republican presidential candidates at the Nov. 28 debate, except Rep. Hunter, are not just isolationists, but suicidal fugitives from the geostrategic reality of today’s world.
Well, in the Democratic debate, even that four-word sentence that Hunter uttered was not heard.
Indeed, of all presidential candidates in the CNN debates, Duncan Hunter is the only one who can be taken seriously. To my inquiry “Duncan Hunter on the China threat,” Yahoo! yielded 2,760,000 items, and the second item was: “Duncan Hunter Speaks to Nevada about Chinese Threat.”
Not to understand or not to admit that a dictatorship whose population exceeds that of the United States more than four times poses a mortal threat is more irresponsible than it was to fail to understand in 1938 that the dictatorship of Germany was a threat.
It was Hitler himself who cured the free West of that blindness by seizing the “rump” of Czechoslovakia, swallowing Poland and France, fighting Britain furiously, grabbing Russia up to the Volga, and declaring war on the United States.
>>>Romney’s attempts to sell 3-COM to the PLA
Bain Capital, which was co-founded by former partner Mitt Romney, a Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as a partner, would own 83.5 percent of the shares and appoint the other eight members.
Rep. Dingell among lawmakers tightening scrutiny of 3Com sale
A congressional committee is investigating the purchase of 3Com Corp. by a consortium that includes a Chinese company, intensifying scrutiny of the deal.
In a letter sent Friday, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich, said there is “growing apprehension in the Congress” about the security implications of the transaction. Dingell chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, the senior Republican on the panel, and two other members also signed the letter sent to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.
Network equipment maker 3Com agreed in late September to be purchased by private equity firm Bain Capital Management and Huawei Technologies for $2.2 billion. Bain would own 83.5 percent of the company, while Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications company, would own 16.5 percent.
Huawei’s alleged ties with China’s military have raised security concerns on Capitol Hill and in some government agencies. Last fall, 14 senators alleged the company is the “preferred provider” of telecom equipment to China’s People’s Liberation Army, in a letter to a Treasury official.
The transaction is under review by a government panel charged with scrutinizing foreign investment for national security concerns. The 12-agency panel, called the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States or CFIUS, is chaired by Treasury and includes the Defense, Homeland Security and Justice departments.
Bain Capital, in a statement Friday, said it is “engaged in a constructive dialogue with CFIUS regarding our proposed acquisition of 3Com Corp.,” and working with U.S. officials.
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Dingell’s letter cited reports that China’s military has tried to hack into the Pentagon’s computer network and said such actions make security concerns more relevant because 3Com develops network security software.
“Given that 3Com Corporation manufactures communications network components — some of which it supplies to the Pentagon, including firewall technology — this transaction raises significant concerns about its potential effect on the national security of the United States,” the letter said.
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I should also add that China and 3Com got around the scuttling.
http://blog.barofintegrity.us/2008/04/30/3com-gets-around-cfius-ruling.aspx
CFIUS ruled that 3Com couldn’t enter into a take over bid with Huawei Technologies due to National Security issues. But, that doesn’t seem to have stopped them. Now 3Com has named Robert Mao as their new CEO. Robert Mao will be based out of China.