I don't think half of the people writing about intelligence and foreign affairs have half an idea of how complex the relationships are between large countries and all of their official personnel.
UB, ever get the feeling we lost our Country?
Let's ALL Sing ---- 1 and 2 and..........WE ARE THE WORLD........
We must see China clearly -- not through the filters of posturing and partisanship. China is rising, and that is inevitable. Here, our interests are plain: We welcome a free and prosperous China. We predict no conflict. We intend no threat. And there are areas where we must try to cooperate: preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction… attaining peace on the Korean peninsula.
Yet the conduct of China's government can be alarming abroad, and appalling at home. Beijing has been investing its growing wealth in strategic nuclear weapons... new ballistic missiles… a blue-water navy and a long-range airforce. It is an espionage threat to our country. Meanwhile, the State Department has reported that "all public dissent against the party and government [has been] effectively silenced" - a tragic achievement in a nation of 1.2 billion people. China's government is an enemy of religious freedom and a sponsor of forced abortion - policies without reason and without mercy.
All of these facts must be squarely faced. China is a competitor, not a strategic partner. We must deal with China without ill-will - but without illusions.[emphasis added]
This was prepared under the tutelage of Condolezza Rice. It represented a substantial "drawing back" from the Clinton position of "strategic partnership." This hardly seems the work of someone "soft" on Chinese communism.
And this makes Condoleezza Rice what, exactly? A woman who helped a Chinese guy document their missile systems for us? Oh yeah, she started looking into some professor's get-rich-quick scheme involving the sale of some fiber optic stuff to the Chinese Army. But then -- organ music, please -- she stopped the inquiry and now won't say anything about it. Plus it turns out the professor was also working for DOD at the time, as a consultant to the SecDef! This proves it! Except I don't know what it proves. Maybe it proves that the DOD would just as soon know what kinds of toys the Chinese are buying, and where they are getting shipped. It's not like the Chinese couldn't buy fiber optic stuff from Japan or Germany or Russia. Maybe it also proves that somebody from DOD paid a visit to Ms. Rice and, concerning her "investigation," told her to fuggedaboudit. |
It just amazes me the way the new idiots on FR can't seem to be bothered with Actual Reading. It's obviously impossible for them to remember ALL THE WAY BACK to when this was original news by Smith and WND.
The juvenile, never did anything but ask daddy for stuff, generation is rampant. I sure hope they enjoy the world they're about to inherit.
"Joseph Nye (CFR), dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security, is helping to facilitate an exchange of military officers between the U.S and China. Next spring, a group of Communist Chinese colonels will visit Harvard and the Pentagon. Joint Chiefs Chairman John Shalikashvili (CFR) will pay a visit to China in 1997, and a series of "military consultations at the vice-minister level" involving Walt Slocombe (CFR), Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, will begin next year as well. In addition, preliminary planning is underway for joint training exercises between American and Communist Chinese military forces."
In other words...... BUMP!!
I don't get it. Some guy came over here from China, went to Stanford where he documented Chinese missile systems for our government, went back to China, and was subsequently arrested by the Chinese for passing their state secrets to the U.S.