Anne Bingaman's husband is Senator Jeff Bingaman, junior senator of New Mexico, whose Bingaman Commission to Beijing and other Asian capitals seated Charlie Yah Lin Trie. This was as a favor to Clinton and a reward to Trie for channeling bags of cash and sequentially numbered money orders to Clinton, the DNC, the Presidential Legal Expense Trust.
Trie will be remembered as the author of the "Dear President" letter to Clinton during the 1996 Taiwan Strait crisis--obviously parroting the voice of his ChiCom puppetmaster.
Terry McAuliffe took his 100K in Global Crossing and made it into an eighteen million dollar windfall, selling before the company nosedived.
The Hutchison Whampoa award of ports Balboa and Cristobal over Bechtel was obviously rigged. Clinton sent Carville to install the right dirty Panamanian pols. Our recalcitrant Ambassador was recalled. And shazaam, "I'm sure the Chinese will do a good job of managing the Canal."
pssst, traitor-rapist42, you said Chinese--don't you mean. . .oh, never mind
It is not clear what leverage Bush has had to block the current arrangement--which is the continuation of decades of persistent intent.
Will this actually put ChiCom intel into headsets monitoring U.S. economic and military communications?
As for PLA Gen. Xiong Guangkai--traitor-rapist42 had him as honored guest of the White House January 24-26, 2000, to "reestablish military-to-military ties".
Uh-oh.