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Chinese see weaknesses in U.S. military By John Diamond -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Chinese military officers studying U.S. forces are developing ways to overcome America¹s high-tech weaponry and defeat what they see as a superpower in decline, a Pentagon analyst said Thursday. In a laborious translation of hundreds of Chinese military books and journals, the Pentagon found no sign of a post-Cold War warming of relations but rather a military hierarchy calculating its chances in a hypothetical conflict with the United States. "Chinese military officers and analysts are writing very unfriendly things about the United States," Pentagon analyst ...

Sino-US Defence Ties:Whys and Hows of Their Recent Engagement -Swaran Singh, Research Fellow, IDSA   The Sino-US defence ties have certainly come very far from their nadir during the long winter of 1995-96. This sudden slide had started with a Chinese diplomatic showdown following the US decision to ignore Chinese protestations and threats and allow President Lee Teng-hui's "private visit" to New York in June 1995. To recall, China regards Taiwan as its renegade province and abhors any international recognition of its ruling regime. However, despite the fact that Beijing went to the extent of recalling its Ambassador from Washington, ...

Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas takes on Gore-Lieberman Updated 6:59 PM ET August 28, 2000 By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) - Joe Eszterhas, the once high priced screenwriter behind such sexually charged films as "Showgirls" and "Basic Instinct," wants Hollywood to withhold support from Democrat Al Gore because of the anti-media rhetoric of his running mate, Sen. Joseph Lieberman. The Hungarian-born Eszterhas, whose own work has often been critically panned for its lurid nature, comes out swinging against Gore and Lieberman in an open letter to be published Tuesday in the entertainment trade paper Daily Variety. "No more Hollywood money for ...

Indonesia Alert : Economic Crisis Leads to Scapegoating of Ethnic Chinese - Background INDONESIA ALERT Economic Crisis Leads to Scapegoating of Ethnic Chinese Background The ethnic Chinese constitute some 3 percent of the Indonesian population. They are not a homogeneous group. Most come originally from China's southern coastal provinces of Guangdong and Fujian, but they speak different languages -- Hokkien, Hakka, Cantonese, Kek, Teochiu -- and may be Buddhist, Catholic, Protestant, or, more rarely, Muslim. Some are more assimilated into Indonesian society and speak Indonesian as their first language, while others have kept more to Chinese cultural traditions, depending ...

Hubbell Meetings With Riady Draw Probers' Scrutiny By Susan Schmidt Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 23 1997; Page A01 Three months after he left his Justice Department job in disgrace in 1994, Webster L. Hubbell scheduled a 7 a.m. breakfast meeting in Washington with an old friend just in from Indonesia, James Riady. A few hours after breakfast, Riady was at the White House, but not for long; Hubbell had his friend penciled in for a midday luncheon meeting at the elegant Hay-Adams hotel. What Hubbell and Riady talked about, and what transpired in a flurry of meetings Riady ...

Findings Link Clinton Allies to Chinese Intelligence By Bob Woodward Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February 10, 1998; Page A01 Mochtar Riady and his son, James, who control the Indonesian-based Lippo Group conglomerate and have been friends and supporters of President Clinton since his days as Arkansas governor, "have had a long-term relationship with a Chinese intelligence agency," according to an unclassified final draft of a report by the Senate committee that last year investigated campaign finance abuses. The report was drawn from highly classified intelligence information supplied by both the CIA and the FBI that was not revealed during ...

Clinton Watch · Vol 17 · Issue 828 · 10/16/96 Foreign Affairs by Doug Ireland Bill Clinton's Indonesian connection brought him campaign cash in exchange for influence--and continued inaction on the country's notorious human rights abuses. HOW IRONIC THAT the very same week two human rights activists from East Timor received the Nobel Peace Prize for helping their annexed country fight for independence from Indonesia's military dictatorship, national newspapers exposed Bill Clinton's seamy relationship with a billionaire Indonesian family whose cash for Clinton's campaign coffers bought them sweetheart trade deals and influence over U.S. diplomatic and trade policy--which included keeping ...

NORTHERN EXPOSURE By Richard Woolcott Source: The Age, 1 June 1999 WE SHOULD FOCUS ON THE CHALLENGES FACING INDONESIA, RATHER THAN OLD CONFLICTS Indonesia faces a difficult and unpredictable period with a general election next Monday and a planned referendum on autonomy in East Timor on 8 August. It is important that Australian focus on the main issue, namely the successful transition to an elected government for more than 200 million Indonesians to our immediate north and the recovery of the Indonesian economy. In these circumstances, fanning public hostility towards Indonesia and an excessive preoccupation with the situation in East ...

Indonesian Financier Sought Senators' Favors Politics: Before backing Clinton, James Riady raised money for Democratic lawmakers, records show. By WILLIAM REMPEL, ALAN C. MILLER, Times Staff Writers Indonesian financier James Riady, a central figure in the controversy over campaign donations supporting President Clinton's reelection, sought direct business benefits from earlier fund-raising alliances with U.S. senators, according to documents obtained by The Times. A memo by Riady in April 1988 outlined a plan to press senators to urge Taiwan to ease its banking rules and allow Asian American banks, "or at least [the Riady-owned] Bank of Trade," to open a branch ...

September 2000 09/14 Insurance 101: A Practical Introduction August 2000 08/9 Spain Wins Right to Protect Sunken Vessels July 2000 07/19 Togo D. West, Jr., Secretary of Veteran Affairs, to Return to Covington & Burling 07/17 Theodore L. Garrett of Covington & Burling Becomes Chair of the Environment, Energy and Resources Section of the ABA 07/10 The Washington Post's Annual Review of How Firms and Their Lawyers Did Before the Supreme Court 07/5 American Lawyer Media Publishes Covington Partners' Book "The Contingent Workforce: Business & Legal Strategies" 07/3 Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act June 2000 06/29 Covington ...

An Admiral's Price for Betrayal October-December 1996 Issue By Ted Sampley U.S. Veteran Dispatch Obscured in a maze of billion dollar conglomerate deals and huge foreign contributions to the Democratic Party is the reason why four-star Admiral Charles Larson lied January 18, 1994, when he reported Hanoi's cooperation on the POW/MIA issue was "excellent across all fronts." Larson was in Vietnam as senior U.S. military commander of all U.S. Forces in the Pacific and Indian Ocean areas. His U.S. stamp of approval for Hanoi came at a time when powerful business interests were pressuring President Clinton to betray the POW/MIA ...

THE CHINA PUZZLE PART VII By: Linda Prussen-Razzano During his 1992 presidential campaign, then Governor Clinton promised to receive a “full accounting” of our POW/MIAs from Vietnam. At the time, we did not have normalized trade relations with Vietnam; they were still under sanctions. Then Governor Clinton assured Americans that he would remain firm against our former enemies, until such time as they answered the questions of families who had “never forgotten” their lost loved ones. He lied. During his 1992 campaign, Clinton turned to his friends from Arkansas, the Riadys, for financial assistance. The Riadys, a powerful family from ...

WTI: The Perversion Continues - Part 10 From Waste Not, The Reporter for Rational Resource Management July, 1997 The following text was scanned for expediency. The errors are ours and ' not the author's. If you wish to see the original copy in PDF format, please Click Here for the PDF version. Jackson Stephens: the Father of WTI By Brian Lipsett and Ellen Connett. "This country trumpets to the world how democratic It is, but's it funny that I come from a community in which our President dare not visit because he cannot witness first hand the injustice which he ...

Indonesian tycoon lobbied Clinton Associated Press and Reuter WASHINGTON -- President Clinton acknowledged Monday that he received a letter in 1993 from an Indonesian tycoon whose family had contributed to Clinton and the Democrats, urging him to normalize relations with Vietnam. Clinton called it a "straightforward policy letter." Republicans demanded immediate release of the three-page letter from Mochtar Riady. Clinton responded that "we will make that letter available to Congress," but did not say when. Presidential press secretary Michael McCurry confirmed a Wall Street Journal report that Riady's March 9, 1993, letter asked Clinton to normalize relations with Vietnam. The ...

Clinton's Indonesian connection By Bill Vann WHEN THE Republican-led Congress reconvenes next month, it is certain to initiate investigations into the connections between the Clinton administration and the Lippo Group, the multibillion dollar Indonesian-based holding company headed by Mochtar Riady. Members of the Riady clan and their associates contributed millions of dollars to Clinton and the Democrats. Millions more in questionable donations were brought in by John Huang, a former Lippo executive. Huang, who was first named to a senior post in the Clinton Commerce Department, joined the Democratic National Committee, where he became a vice chairman and top fund-raiser. ...

The Suharto financial dynasty By Mike Head5 June 1998 Over the past four decades, starting before his 1965 military coup, General Suharto has amassed the tenth largest financial dynasty in Asia. Through his wife, sons and daughters and other relatives, the Suharto family has built vast interlocking billion-dollar empires in property, banking, industry, telecommunications, media and transport. Siti Hardijanti Rukmana, born in 1949, is the eldest child. Known as Tutut, she is married to businessman Indra Rukmana. Her main companies include Citra Lamtoro Gung Persada, controlled jointly with her husband and sisters, and the $780 million toll-road operator Citra Marga ...

Growing demands for the seizure of Suharto's empire By Mike Head 5 June1998 In the face of growing demands for the seizure of the colossal fortunes amassed by officials of the Suharto regime, including the ex-president and his family, the government headed by Suharto's life-long protege, B. J. Habibie, this week announced a vague, internal probe. Attorney-General Soedjono Atmonegoro described the investigation as "routine". He gave no details, except to say that his departmental officials would not specifically target the Suharto family, and the inquiry would be "long and drawn out". Two days later, armed forces chief and Defence Minister ...

Growing demands for the seizure of Suharto's empire By Mike Head 5 June1998 In the face of growing demands for the seizure of the colossal fortunes amassed by officials of the Suharto regime, including the ex-president and his family, the government headed by Suharto's life-long protege, B. J. Habibie, this week announced a vague, internal probe. Attorney-General Soedjono Atmonegoro described the investigation as "routine". He gave no details, except to say that his departmental officials would not specifically target the Suharto family, and the inquiry would be "long and drawn out". Two days later, armed forces chief and Defence Minister ...

The Riadys and the Suharto dictatorship THE Lippo Group, the giant conglomerate run by the Riady family, is one of several major Indonesian holding companies which have amassed huge fortunes while maintaining close ties with the 30- year-old Suharto dictatorship. Mochtar Riady began his rise at Bank Central Asia, the largest private bank in Indonesia, which is run by Liem Sioe Liong, Suharto's closest crony. He gained a 17.5 percent share in the bank, whose two other largest shareholders are Suharto's eldest son and daughter. In the late 1980s he left BCA to create his Lippo business empire. BCA and ...

British mini-submarine prepares for Kursk rescue bid Source: AFP|Published: Monday August 21, 1:01 PM Murmansk: The three-man crew of the British LR5 mini-submarine was preparing early today to dive to the crippled Kursk nuclear submarine, despite fears all 118 sailors aboard are already dead. Russia asked for the high-tech craft to attempt the rescue mission after a team of specialist Norwegian divers had spent a day making a video reconnaissance of the damage to the Kursk caused by a freak accident on August 12, the Ministry of Defence said in London. The British mini-sub will attempt to open the airlock ...