China: More US high-tech coming

BEIJING - US Commence Secretary Gary Locke said on Friday that the US government is expected to completely overhaul its export control policies by this summer, which might pave the way for the sale of more high-technology goods to China.

"We are reviewing the entire list of our export control system as some of the protections and restrictions make very little sense," Locke said at a press briefing in Beijing.

The US government is loosening controls over some commonly available high-tech goods, but will give more protection to the sensitive technologies that are important to national security, he said.

Locke also claimed that people often "overestimate" the export control laws of the United States.

"Currently, less than 1 percent of US exports to China require a license. Of those that do require a license, 98 percent are approved," he said.

"Streamlining items on the export control list will cause the license to be issued more quickly," he added.

Locke, already in China for six days with the intent to boost clean energy sales in the country, will attend the all-important second Strategic and Economic Dialogue between Chinese and US officials slated for next week in Beijing.

The reform of US export control rules is on top of the agenda of Chinese officials in their discussions with their US counterparts during the highest-level meeting.

Though Locke downplayed the impact of the control rules on the country's exports to China, some Chinese officials and experts said China is still facing many restrictions in importing military and even civilian technologies from the US.

As a result of the stringent controls imposed by the US, the nation's exports of high-tech products to China have declined from 18 percent of its total high-tech exports in 2003, to 7 percent in 2009, according to Yao Jian, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce.

Chinese Vice-Minister of Commence Ma Xiuhong on Thursday urged the US to take substantive measures to change its export control system. Otherwise the economic and trade cooperation between the two countries will face a "bottleneck," she said.

The current export control system, based on the export law issued by the US in 1979, is a result of the Cold War, according to spokesman Yao. The rules are outdated and weakens US companies' competitive edge in the global market, he said.

The Obama administration pledged earlier this year to double US exports in the next five years and create 2 million jobs from it. Green energy will play a critical role in these new jobs, officials said.

Locke said the US hopes to increase its exports to emerging markets, including China, India, Brazil and Russia. China especially will be a key part of the US strategy to boost exports.

In addition to the always-hot trade and economic issues, next week's dialogue will also include sensitive regional security issues.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton embarked on her three-Asian-nation tour, arriving in Tokyo on Friday. She stayed for a few hours and talked about the relocation of the US Marine's Futenma air base in Okinawa to the Japanese side.

After the two-day Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Beijing, she will fly to Seoul to discuss the latest developments in the sunken Republic of Korea (ROK) warship incident.

In Washington this week, Kurt Campbell, the State Department's head of East Asian and Pacific affairs, said Clinton, in her dialogue with China, will emphasize issues including regional security, global finance, and climate change.

Campbell also mentioned the US-led drive for new nuclear sanctions against Iran, instability in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and developments on the Korean Peninsula, where an ROK report released on Thursday accused the Democratic People's Republic of Korea of sinking one of its navy ships, causing the loss of 46 lives.The central issue during Clinton's Asian tour would be assessing how to respond to the latest development in the warship incident, Campbell said.

Winning concessions on other key topics such as the exchange rate reform of Chinese yuan, climate change and regional securities, won't be easy, analysts said.

Meanwhile, China will also challenge Washington over Taiwan, Tibet and the US naval presence off the Chinese coast, but few concrete breakthroughs are expected.

Despite low expectations, the two-day dialogue is a powerful demonstration of the depth and complexity of the US-China relationship, and will also be a gauge of the state of those ties after they hit a rocky patch earlier this year, said the Associated Press.

"I expect the (dialogue) to give us an atmospheric-barometric reading on just how much trust has been lost and just how important the two sides view their continuing strategic cooperation," said Richard Baum, a China expert at the University of California, Los Angeles, in an Associated Press report.

Professor Shen Dingli with Shanghai-based Fudan University said the dialogue is a stabilizing mechanism and each side wants to use it shape the other's behavior. "Only a mutually beneficial deal will work here; otherwise, it won't get very far," he said.

"the US government is expected to completely overhaul its export control policies by this summer, which might pave the way for the sale of more high-technology goods to China."

Here we go again! I suspect the Obamanation administration will do even more harm than Bill Clinton did!

"'We like your president. We want to see him reelected', former Chinese intelligence chief General Ji Shengde told Chinagate bagman Johnny Chung. Indeed, Chinese intelligence organized a massive covert operation aimed at tilting the 1996 election Clinton’s way."

The Idiot's Guide to Chinagate
By Richard Poe
May 26, 2003

CHINA WILL LIKELY replace the USA as world leader, said Bill Clinton in a recent Washington Post interview. It is just a matter of time. Clinton should know. He has personally done more to build China’s military strength than any man on earth.

Most Americans have heard of the so-called "Chinagate " scandal. Few understand its deadly import, however. Web sites such as "Chinagate for Dummies" and its companion "More Chinagate for Dummies" offer some assistance. Unfortunately, with a combined total of nearly 8,000 words, these two sites – like so many others of the genre – offer more detail than most of us "dummies" can absorb.

For that reason, in the 600 words left in this column, I will try to craft my own "Idiot’s Guide to Chinagate," dedicated to all those busy folks like you and me whose attention span tends to peter out after about 750 words. Here goes.

When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, China presented little threat to the United States. Chinese missiles "couldn’t hit the side of a barn," notes Timothy W. Maier of Insight magazine. Few could reach North America and those that made it would likely miss their targets.

Thanks to Bill Clinton, China can now hit any city in the USA, using state-of-the-art, solid-fueled missiles with dead-accurate, computerized guidance systems and multiple warheads.

China probably has suitcase nukes as well. These enable China to strike by proxy – equipping nuclear-armed terrorists to do their dirty work, while the Chinese play innocent. Some intelligence sources claim that China maintains secret stockpiles of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons on U.S. soil, for just such contingencies.

In 1997, Clinton allowed China to take over the Panama Canal. The Chinese company Hutchison Whampoa leased the ports of Cristobal and Balboa, on the east and west openings of the canal respectively, thus controlling access both ways. A public outcry stopped Clinton in 1998 from leasing California’s Long Beach Naval Yard to the Chinese firm COSCO. Even so, China can now strike U.S. targets easily from their bases in Panama, Vancouver and the Bahamas.

How did China catch up so fast? Easy. We sold them all the technology they needed – or handed it over for free. Neither neglect nor carelessness are to blame. Bill Clinton did it on purpose.

As a globalist, Clinton promotes "multipolarity" – the doctrine that no country (such as the USA) should be allowed to gain decisive advantage over others.

To this end, Clinton appointed anti-nuclear activist Hazel O’Leary to head the Department of Energy. O’Leary set to work "leveling the playing field," as she put it, by giving away our nuclear secrets. She declassified 11 million pages of data on U.S. nuclear weapons and loosened up security at weapons labs.

Federal investigators [Cox Report] later concluded that China made off with the "crown jewels" of our nuclear weapons research under Clinton’s open-door policy – probably including design specifications for suitcase nukes. Meanwhile, Clinton and his corporate cronies raked in millions.

In his book The China Threat, Washington Times correspondent Bill Gertz describes how the system worked. Defense contractors eager to sell technology to China poured millions of dollars into Clinton’s campaign. In return, Clinton called off the dogs.

Janet Reno and other counterintelligence officials stood down while Lockheed Martin, Hughes Electronics, Loral Space & Communications and other U.S. companies helped China modernize its nuclear strike force.

"We like your president. We want to see him reelected," former Chinese intelligence chief General Ji Shengde told Chinagate bagman Johnny Chung. Indeed, Chinese intelligence organized a massive covert operation aimed at tilting the 1996 election Clinton’s way.

Clinton’s top campaign contributors for 1992 were Chinese agents; his top donors in 1996 were U.S. defense contractors selling missile technology to China.

Clinton recieved funding directly from known or suspected Chinese intelligence agents, among them James and Mochtar Riady who own the Indonesian Lippo Group; John Huang; Charlie Trie; Ted Sioeng; Maria Hsia; Wang Jun and others.

Commerce Secretary Ron Brown served as Clinton’s front man in many Chinagate deals. When investigators began probing Brown’s Lippo Group and Chinagate connections, Brown died suddenly in a suspicious April 1996 plane crash.

Needless to say, China does not share Clinton’s enthusiasm for globalism or multipolarity. The Chinese look out for Number One.

"War [with the United States] is inevitable; we cannot avoid it," said Chinese Defense Minister General Chi Haotian in 2000. "The issue is that the Chinese armed forces must control the initiative in this war." Bill Clinton has given them a good start.

The Idiot's Guide to Chinagate:
http://www.richardpoe.com/column.cgi?story=125

or,
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/5/26/214938.shtml
(this version hasn't the necessary hyperlinks, but the above doesn't seem to be available any longer)
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Related Stories
Richard Poe, "Chinagate: The Third-Way Scandal" (June 3, 1999)
Christopher Ruddy, "Russia and China Prepare for War: Parts I - VIII," NewsMax.com (March 9 -18, 1999)
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"As a globalist, [Bill] Clinton promotes "multipolarity" – the doctrine that no country (such as the USA) should be allowed to gain decisive advantage over others."

From a 2003 Washington Post article:

"...a statement [Bill] Clinton made in February 2002, in which he told an audience in Australia, 'This is a unique moment in U.S. history, a brief moment in history, when the U.S. has preeminent military, economic and political power. It won't last forever. This is just a period, a few decades this will last.'

Clinton continued...

'In all probability, we won't be the premier political and economic power we are now' in a few decades, he said, pointing to the growth of China's economy and the growing economic strength of the European Union.

Whether the United States maintains its military supremacy, he said, depends in part on how much those other entities invest in their militaries, and Clinton said working cooperatively is essential to U.S. interests.

But he said he did not want to be misunderstood. 'I never advocated that we not have the strongest military in the world...I don't think a single soul has thought I was advocating scaling back our military.'

Source: Washington Post article from May 2003:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A62253-2003Apr30&notFound=true

or find his remarks here (Talon News):
Clinton Predicts America's Decline:
http://mensnewsdaily.com/archive/newswire/nw03/talonnews/0503/newswire-tn-050503d.htm
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From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html

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