Keep An Eye on China

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"Russia, meanwhile, says it is satisfied the mullahs are not playing with nuclear fire and it will go on helping Iran’s peaceful nuclear power program. Score one for a rapprochement between the EU and Russia over Iran.

Next comes the EU plan to lift a 15-year-old arms embargo against China next June. Mr. Bush said this would be a mistake, but he is withholding judgment until he sees a promised new EU regime that would carefully regulate nonlethal military sales to China.

Until now, EU members have done pretty much what they can get away with. Germany, for example, has sold diesel engines to China for its submarine fleet. This sale was approved on the laughable ground the engines were widely used for civilian purposes all over the world.

Like it or not, say the Europeans, China is headed for superpowerdom in the foreseeable future. Its human-rights record, while still poor, has improved immeasurably since the Tiananmen Square massacre June 4, 1989. The Chinese government doesn’t bother anyone who wants to make a fortune in business so long as they keep their nose out of politics.

And China has become a global economic behemoth. There is little doubt China will use some of its $200 billion in U.S. Treasury paper to buy the wherewithal to become strong enough to overwhelm Taiwan in a showdown."…

washingtontimes.com/commentary/20050228-084038-2488r.htm
 
“…American policymakers and analysts are constantly reminding us that China will soon have the largest economy in the world,” Wu wrote. “What seems to be lacking in this discussion is the implication of an economic giant’s turning into a military and political giant.”

Couple that with a recent warning by Lisa Bronson, a Pentagon security director. At a recent conference that included FBI and CIA officials at Texas A&M University, she was quoted as warning that “China has somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 front companies in the U.S., and their sole reason for existing is to steal, exploit technology.” She added it is difficult to assess what technologies that China has already obtained through front groups, spying, etc.

To put this in some perspective: If the Pentagon estimate is correct, there is a spy network in this country that – in numbers at least – surpasses even the Soviet penetration during World War II, when communist operatives were able to maneuver postwar strategy to the benefit of Joseph Stalin and stole atomic secrets before the rest of the world even knew of the Manhattan Project that developed the bomb.

Thomas Fleming, in his 2001 book, “The New Dealers’ War,” says that at the height of World War II, there were 349 Soviet agents ensconced in the halls of U.S. government agencies. Postwar congressional probes revealed that they had penetrated every government agency except the FBI…"

“…Whereas that spying of 60 years ago concentrated most heavily on government, in 2005 spies for the Chinese Communist government are running – at a minimum – 2,000 so-called “private” companies, presumably with potential links to the U.S. government or to those who may have sensitive contracts with the government. That at least is the goal. This is spying that seeks to steal technology secrets for the express purpose of building a war machine that someday may be turned against us…”

"As to what is being done to counteract the huge industrial spy network that China has in place right here on our own soil, Bronson( whose full title is Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Technology, Security Policy, and Counterproliferation) says that while “the number of Munitions List exports to China has been extremely small over the past several years,” her colleagues at the Commerce and State departments have in place an export licensing system that provides the U.S. with “a useful set of procedures for controlling dual-use commodities that could be used for military purposes.”

“She also refers to Export Administration regulations to address commodities issues of military sensitivity, national security, nuclear proliferation, missile technology and chemical and biological weapons…”

"…That goes to the whole issue of the economic assistance the U.S. and other industrialized nations give China through trade policies, the results of which you can see on the ubiquitous “Made in China” labels at your local shopping mall. That’s an additional can or worms for discussion on another day.

For now, we can only pray that efforts behind the scenes to keep track of the 2,000 to 3,000 Chinese front companies are successful. Chinese spying in this country is not new, of course. Whistle-blower Notra Trulock, a former director of intelligence in the U.S. Department of Energy through the 1990s, outlines in his book “Kindred Spirit” his findings that Chinese agents were compromising America’s nuclear security. His warnings were rationalized by bureaucrats and ignored by President Clinton and the Congress…"

newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/3/14/161447.shtml
 
Excuse me folks but China has always been a superpower. For the last 5,000 years, with the exception of the last 150 or so China had been, at the very lowest the third largest economy in the world. China was a force of economic power when Europe was still in the dark ages and before America was blabbed about by Columbus.

Occasionaly China “rattles sabres” (and we don’t?) so? big deal. I suspect the greatest fear is that China will overtake America in the industrial stakes and relegate it to another second class country. It would seem that a deflated ego is more important than an inflated respect for others.
 
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