How Bill Clinton junked America’s supremacy

Spectator USA ^ | 18 April 20 | Freddy Gray

[Bruiser 10]

‘This is a good day for America,’ said President Bill Clinton on May 24, the Year of Our Lord 2000. ‘In 10 years from now we will look back on this day and be glad we did this.’ Clinton was talking about the House of Representatives’ vote to award normal trade relations to China. And he was right.

By 2010, despite the crash of 2008, the knowledge class still largely considered the decision to support China’s entry into the World Trade Organization as a great boon. China’s rise had turbocharged globalization and made us all richer — never mind the stupefying sovereign debts. Labour unions had opposed it, but leaders and corporations were still enthralled by the gargantuan consumer markets.

Fast forward another decade, however, and the US-China Relations Act, Clinton’s last significant legislative accomplishment, looks like a monumental mistake: the moment when America, perhaps the greatest superpower of all time, rolled over and invited its demise.

[FewsOrange]

The House and the Senate were both controlled by the Republicans.

In both the House and the Senate, the majority of Yes votes came from Republicans, the majority of No votes came from the Democrats.

https://votesmart.org/bill/3035/7879/us-china-relations-act-of-2000

[indthkr]

Bill Clinton didn't do it alone.

The entire Baby Boom generation consumed America's future.

[2banana]

They took in millions in campaign contributions from the Chinese.

[crazydad]

Where is Bill?

[Regulator]

YUP

They pushed this China Globalist crap and Clinton went along with it because of his basic racism against Caucasians and his love of the Communist Party

Win-Win for the Evil Alliance of Republican Globalists trying to burn down American unions and DemCom anti-white Christian thugs trying to stomp out the America that once dominated the world.

[EagleUSA]

Most likely hiding somewhere hoping that nobody says the word “ChinaGate”.....

[proust]

One two punch followup by Shrub making China permanent “most favored nation” status.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Good article.
IMO though, Clinton wounded it. Obama took the kill shot.
W didn’t help any either.

[Theoria]

The author failed to even mention the gop. Nothing gets done destroying America without the help of the gop.

[Olog-hai]

Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the UN.

— Communist goal #7

Just because the USSR went away (but did it, really?) does not mean the goals of the commies went away.

[Lurkinanloomin]

GHW Bush gave them a pass on Tiananmen, that’s what set the stage for MFN trade status.

The sell-out of America was bipartisan.

[wally_bert]

Still above room temperature.

Treason pays well when you are at the top.

[Olog-hai]

He mentioned the House of Representatives. Doesn’t take too much research (if one does not remember offhand) to find out that there was an establishment GOP majority in the 107^th Congress’ House.

[Voltage]

We did it to ourselves. We enacted agencies, rules, regulations designed to make our industries non-competitive. We can either clear the deck of such laws or accept a lower standard of living.

[Theoria]

Certainly proves the point. He could have easily mentioned it, but decided not too instead of blaming Clinton.

Newt and crew are on the list as well. He's always running around with all the answers, but his actions have helped to destroy this country for decades.

[Liz]

.......the monumental disaster of the US-China Relations Act, Bill Clinton’s last (cough) "legislative accomplishment,"
......is the historic moment when a Democrat president of the greatest superpower of all time,
sap-happily handed its demise to a backward country, poised to strip America of its intellectual and technological superiority.

SOURCE https://dailycaller.com/2016/09/02/flashback-bill-clinton-collected-donations-then-us-missile-tech-shipped-to-china/

(Lobbying a president at a WH function was unheard of till the greedy Me-First Clintons came to town....)
Pres Clinton was lobbied at a WH gala by big buck donor Bernard L. Schwartz, CEO of Loral Space & Communications Ltd......
First Clinton made sure to collect donations ........then he shipped US missile tech to China.

JOHNNY CHUNG: "Gotta put coins in---ka-ching---to make Clintons do something."

[Olog-hai]

I don’t see that omission as necessarily covering for the GOP-e. I for one recalled from memory the 107^th House as having a Republican majority.

What troubles me is the author’s seemingly self-contradictory claim that Clinton was “right” about being “glad” (who was?) over the vote to normalize relations with the remaining vanguard of the world communist revolution.

[Liz]

Arming China- The Bill Clinton Connection
Frontpage Mag ^ | March 19, 2020 | Michael Ledeen / FR Posted by CheshireTheCat

snip .....Remember this all happened about 25 years ago....
then Pres Bill Clinton and his foreign policy team were busily arming Beijing, which in turn armed “rogue nations” such as Iran, Iraq, Syria and Libya.

......on the one hand, it did make sense to sell a very limited amount of advanced military technology to the Communist Chinese, for example devices for nuclear safety, or for certain military systems with important civilian applications, such as satellite launchers.

But the Clinton Administration was not doing that.

Instead, it was executing a deliberate policy—apparently one that had full approval from the top levels of the Clinton Administration, despite the vigorous opposition from government agencies, and from individual officials infuriated at the flow of top technology to China.

This often took the form of Clinton okaying the selling off some of our finest factories to China, at pennies on the dollar, and included our finest supercomputers and the key element to modern jet engines, which had been blocked for export to the Soviet bloc... (Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...

[Liz]

Hillary Clinton’s Emails Were Sent to Gmail Address With a Chinese Company’s Name The Epoch Times ^ | 08-15-19 | IVAN PENTCHOUKOV
FR Posted on 8/15/2019, 1:09:29 PM by Monrose72

All but four of the 30,490 emails from Hillary Clinton’s unauthorized email server were forwarded to a private Google email address featuring the name of a Chinese company, according to documents released on Aug. 15.

Virtually every email which was sent to and received on the Clinton server was forwarded to “carterheavyindustries@gmail.com,” the documents (pdf) show. Frank Rucker, the intelligence community inspector general (ICIG) investigator who spotted the anomaly, searched Google for “Carter Heavy Industries” and came up with results for Shandong Carter Heavy Industry Co., Ltd, a Chinese manufacturer of excavators and heavy machinery, according to the documents. (Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...

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He took charge of Hillary's emails, but Paul Cambetta of Platte River Networks says he created the carterheavyindustries email address as a dummy used to transfer from Hillary’s second server to the one they were setting up.

He claims no knowledge of the Chinese company with a similar name and offers no explanation of why he used it. The Obama FBI and DoJ IG found that to be enough, since there wasn’t a spread of evidence left after Hillary destroyed the equipment.

Question for computer experts:
<><>why would you create an email address and burrow it into a server to transfer existing data into a new server?
<><>Wouldn’t there be straightforward ways to do that, such as copying a backup file onto a USB device?
<><>Why would you leave it on auto forward forever on the “new” server, if the point was to copy out the old server, and presumably shut it down?

The explanation sounds like a complete pack of lies, though the Chinese angle is headline hype.