The Idiot's Guide to Chinagate

RichardPoe.com ^ | May 26, 2003 | Richard Poe

[Richard Poe]

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 no threat to the United States. Chinese missiles "couldn’t hit the side of a barn," notes Timothy W. Maier of Insight magazine. They could barely reach Taiwan and would likely miss their targets once they got there.

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 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.

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Richard Poe is a New York Times bestselling author and cyberjournalist. His book The Seven Myths of Gun Control is due out in paperback in August 2003. Poe’s forthcoming book, The New Underground: How Conservatives Conquered the Internet will be available soon.

[Republic If You Can Keep It]

To the best of my knowledge they're only able to mount 3 or 4 warheads on an ICBM.

Whew!

Thanks. That's a relief.

[Jeff Head]

Check out #15.

[Matchett-PI]

"someday billy boy will pay for his treason........"

[Matchett-PI]

"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."

And if Clinton is successful in landing that position as head of the UN and/or his marital partner in crime becomes the US president, you can bet that they will help China replace the USA as world leader as quickly as they can.

Bump for your "Idiot's Guide to Chinagate"! It's great!

[Paul Ross]

I have also not heard of this. Will have to do a lot of digging, I'm afraid.

But I have found a number of links to BWXT on the Web, which indicates that BWXT is currently held by the large energy conglomerate, McDermott. As to the linkage of Hutchinson-Wahampoa to McDermott, I am not aware. That is not to say they are not there.

Here is some self-history of BWXT:

			. . .  of Technical Innovation and Service 1953 Atomic Energy Division formed. First reactor fuel production facility announced. 1956 Company builds world's first commercial Critical Experiment Laboratory (CX-1). Nuclear Facilities Plant begins operation in Lynchburg, Virginia. 1957 Reactor components built for world's first commercial nuclear ship N.S. Savannah. 1958 Fabrication begins for research and test reactors for colleges, universities, and national laboratories. 1967 World's largest and longest running test reactor designed and fabricated. 1978 Acquired by McDermott, Inc., a world-wide energy services company. 1985 Contract for cavities for Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF). 1988 Contract awarded for design space nuclear thermal propulsion system. 1990 Contract for design of tritium production reactor at DOE Savannah River site. 1991 Contract for development and manufacture of superconducting magnets for particle physics facility. Selected to manage and operate Specific Manufacturing Capability project at DOE Idaho. 1994 On winning team to manage DOE's Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. 1995 On winning team to manage DOE's Rocky Flats Environmental Test Site. Contract for Solar Bi-Modal space power and propulsion system. 1996 On winning team to manage DOE's Hanford and Savannah River Sites. 1997 BWX Technologies, Inc. formed. Former nuclear fuels plant in Pennsylvania decommissioned and released for unrestricted use. Wins prime contract for clean-up of DOE's Mound Site in Ohio. 1998 First Solar BI-Modal space flight contract awarded for Solar Orbital Transfer Vehicle. 1999 On winning team to manage DOE's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. Subcontractor on winning team to manage Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 2000 Selected as prime contractor to manage and operate DOE's Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas. Selected as prime contractor to manage and operate DOE's Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant. 2001 Wins contract from University of California for work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. For additional information, please contact: BWXT Public Relations (434) 522-5937 bwxtinfo@mcdermott.com

[Paul Ross]

Ping.

[Paul Ross]

Did the Magnaquench deal go through? I thought the Dept. of Defense finally put a hold on that.

[ohmage]

Bill Clinton did it on purpose bump

[GOP_1900AD]

Richard, your article is getting some visibility and is very timely. Thank's for doing this; it's nice to have the "executive summary" version of this sordid tale.

[Travis McGee]

Got Rope?

[Maria S]

Thanks for the info; you came up with about all that I found.

The caller on the talk radio show only caught my attention with her comment about BWXT being associated with Hutchinson-Wahampoa because when Mason-Hanger lost the contract for Pantex (they'd had it since early 50's, I think), it was a huge surprise...and there seemed to be some question about the bids, I believe. I can't recall all of the details, but just hearing a caller ask if anyone was aware that BWXT was part of Hutchinson-Wahampoa gave me the chills! I don't think we need to have a potential enemy in charge of something like Pantex.

[HighRoadToChina]

BUMP!!!!

[Paul Ross]

Ugh! Bad news. GWB ignored all warnings. And is going ahead with that nonsense:

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Tuesday, May 27, 2003

Valparaiso magnet plant closing despite lawmakers' appeal

STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS

VALPARAISO - A northwestern Indiana plant that makes magnets used in smart bombs is closing despite lawmakers' request to President Bush to keep that from happening.

Cliston Brown, a spokesman for Rep. Pete Visclosky, D-Ind., said the White House had not responded to a request by Visclosky and Sen. Evan Bayh that an investigation be made into whether there were national security concerns because the facility owned by Magnequench Inc. might move to China.

"Congressman Visclosky is very upset about that," Brown said. "We have been in contact with the White House on numerous occasions and there has been no response at all.

"Now we have around 200 people and their families in northwest Indiana who are going to pay the price for the White House's negligence."

Magnequench has said its process for manufacturing magnets was not a secret and the same magnets the lawmakers referred to were widely available in China and Japan and made by other U.S. companies.

"We'd prefer to have that answered from the administration rather than the company, that's part of the reason we've pursued this course," said Mark Kornblau, a Bayh spokesman.

Magnequench employees were notified Monday that the company planned to start laying off workers in mid-July. Under the U.S. Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, employers are usually required to give 60 days notice of layoffs of 50 or more workers.

The plant will close about Sept. 30, Magnequench spokesman Bob Collevechio said. He would not comment on whether the plant's operations were moving to China.

Collevechio told The Star Press Wednesday that Magnaquench's Indianapolis headquarters would be unaffected by the closure. The company's Anderson plant, where General Motors first developed the magnets, has been closed for more than a year. A small U.S. plant is still located in New Jersey, he said.

Three years ago, the company had 1,500 employees worldwide, including 300 workers in Anderson. At that time, a company official explained the Chinese link by noting that neodymium, a rare-earth element, was most plentiful in China.

In 1995, then-Congressman David McIntosh announced that he had secured commitments from the new owners to keep the Anderson plant open for at least 10 years.

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[Paul Ross]

I should also mention that among the disengenuous positions made by the Chinese-appointed 'Chairman' of Magnaquench, the most egregious is that there are plenty of CHINESE COMPETITORS for these magnets. These magnets are all protected under heavy-duty patents, which are being flouted by the Chinese. They are not paying the royalties they were supposed to among the manufacturing line set up by the US company. They never had open bidding for any of this equipment. Why is there no sharehold derivative suit?

[Bogolyubski]

I was unaware of the patent violations, but I can't say I'm surprised. While US patent and copyright laws are enforced vigorously when Americans violate foreign intellectual property, China and other countries are able to brazenly violate our intellectual property as often as they wish - with no consequences.

Magnaquench is just the tip of the iceberg, I expect. There are evidently plenty of Republicans deeply involved in this treasonous activity in addition to Beelzebubba and the RATS, which explains why there has never been a serious investigation - much less charges.

[Tailgunner Joe]

bttt

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

BUMP all of Clintons' accomplishments!!!!

[StellarOne]

After many years of being an FR reader, I've finally signed up here Alamo-Girl and I must compliment you on all the great work you've done here.
Over the past many years I've read most all of your Chinagate articles. With the coming election, I'd like to post to many of these past Chinagate articles in hopes that more of the voting general public will find them.

[StellarOne]

Thank you for this important thread. bttt

[Alamo-Girl]

Welcome to Free Republic, StellarOne!!! And thank you so very much for the encouragements!

With the coming election, I'd like to post to many of these past Chinagate articles in hopes that more of the voting general public will find them.

Indeed. By posting to the articles, they will appear in the "latest posts" list and improve the chances of their being read by a passer by.