“Chinese made shore to ship missiles which somehow feature the latest American designed guidance systems.”
Thank FReeper ‘Alamo girl’ for this very informative compilation of facts about how the Chinese got their fat little paws on our guidance systems. Great read!
Wall Street Journal 4/14/98 Editorial “ President Clinton approved the transfer of missile guidance technology to China at the behest of the largest personal contributor to the Democratic Party. He granted the needed waiver despite an ongoing Department of Justice criminal investigation of the same company’s earlier transfer of similar technology: a Pentagon study concluding that in the earlier episode “United States national security has been harmed.” That is the essence of a report yesterday by Jeff Gerth of the New York Times (who also reported the original Whitewater story in 1992) concerning satellite launch technology provided by Loral Space and Communications and Hughes Electronics, a subsidiary of General Motors. Loral Chairman Bernard L. Schwartz topped the personal contributions list in 1997; his 1994 trip to China with Commerce Secretary Ron Brown was quickly followed by a memo to the President from Harold Ickes saying Mr. Schwartz “is prepared to do anything he can for the Administration.” Lobbying jointly with Hughes Chairman C. Michael Armstrong, who has gone on to head AT&T, Mr. Schwartz succeeded in softening licensing requirements for export of guidance technology to China .”
http://alamo-girl.com/0041.htm
Thank you for your encouragements, dear panaxanax!