Forum: Closer look at China
August 27, 2006


Herbert Klein's Aug. 13 column on China was a fine look into the economic situation of mainland China as it has evolved and from what, but was superficial. The communist ruling class of 80,000 people that he barely mentioned are engaged in a long, protracted economic and cultural war that, like the war on terror up to September 11, 2001, we have yet to fully appreciate or engage.

Chinese culture has a very patient, long-term view of world and cultural affairs. Either Chou En-lai and Mao Tse-tung, asked about the effects of the French Revolution, is variously quoted as saying it was too soon to tell.

The Communist Chinese, if you look at their actions over the time since they ascended to power after World War II, have slowly but relentlessly encroached upon the U.S. and are quietly waging war on us. During the Carter years, we gave up control of the Panama canal. During the Clinton years, they took advantage of the hand-over of that control and now manage both sides of the canal, which in time of conflict could effectively cut off shipping between our East and West coasts. Imagine what it would be like if we could not receive tankers of oil from the Alaskan pipelines, or the Middle East.

During the Clinton administration, the Communist Chinese managed to lease the Long Beach naval shipyard in California, which, given the volumes of containers coming in, could easily be used to ship weapons and explosives into our country for use against us. Again, and against the advice of security experts, President Clinton allowed a transfer to China of sensitive satellite information and technology (known as the Loral-Hughes Transfer, after receiving an illegal campaign contribution from a family with connections to Communist China). Less than a year later, all cell phones and pagers in the U.S. went out of service for a day, only because the satellites that handled the crashed systems had gone dead for that time.

China is responsible for giving the Iranians nukes, other arms to the Syrians, and long-range missile technology to the North Koreans who got nuclear technology from the Clinton administration through a poorly thought out foreign policy in exchange for a solemn promise from the mad dictator Kim Jong-il not to use the technology for anything but electricity generation.

Each of these countries now engages us in conflict, thereby stretching our military resources to their limits. This leaves us very vulnerable to anything China would try in the Straits of Formosa, and endangers our Democratic ally, the Taiwanese.


We must be very careful in our elections of the future, for if we select administration and Congresses that will allow further disastrous foreign policies like the Carter and Clinton years, we could find ourselves maneuvered into a Third-World condition relatively quickly, by the chesslike maneuvering of the Communist Chinese.
NORMAN HENDRICKSON

http://www.americaneconomicalert.com/ne ... ID=2223865
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Yet, we continue to allow our companies to move over there....our government is our worst enemy, along with big business!