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Stroking The Dragon
The Red Chinese Have Penetrated The Clinton White House, They Are Ripping Off U.S. Technology And Now Are Learning How To Tamper With The World Economy
By Bonnie Edwards
U.S. Veteran Dispatch
December 1997 - January 1998

The recent spectacle of the New York Stock Exchange's balcony draped with communist China's blood red flag of oppression was enough to shock any true believer in democracy and capitalism. Add to that sight the aberration of China's president, Jiang Zemin, standing on the same balcony, sounding the bell to open a day of trading on Wall Street and gesturing thumbs up to a cheering crowd of clerks and traders, and there can be no doubt — China no longer sleeps, and the dragon is hungry.

There is more to Jiang's ringing of the Wall Street bell than harmless symbolism. Red China is a hard core communist thug government that still holds dear Mao Tse Tung's teaching that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

Chinese students at Tiananmen Square in 1989 learned the hard way about how far the Red Chinese are willing to go to suppress democracy. China's Communist Party leadership, including Jiang, treated the dissident movement in China to a bloody example of how "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

As a demonstration for the demonstrators, Chinese leaders summoned the Red army with its tanks. Before the night was over, more than 1,000 protesters lay dead and mangled on the ground.

The communists then hunted down 21 of the "most wanted" pro-democracy leaders and either jailed them.

Jiang admits that China has made some mistakes, but no dissidents have been released. Nothing has really changed in Red China since 1989. Anyone found disagreeing with the government or criticizing Communist Party leaders is still jailed without trial.

Let there be no misunderstanding. China is a communist state. Communism is a natural enemy of freedom and Democracy. The two cannot stand together without sooner or later falling into conflict, usually armed. History has witnessed that democracies do not usually go to war against each other. All of America's foreign wars have been against dictatorships and totalitarian countries, the bullies of the world.

The people of the world have suffered much less fear of world conflict since the Soviet Union collapsed and Red China's war machine eroded into obsolescence.

It is reckless of the United States to allow greed driven corporate merchants to ship China nuclear and electronic technology in exchange for trinkets.

Check a Kid's Meal toy in any fast food restaurant. Chances are about 99 percent that the tiny piece of useless plastic was made in China. The probability is just as high that the U.S. dollars paid for the toy will be used to rebuild China's nuclear arsenal.

Jiang's appearance on Wall Street makes it obvious that the Reds are acquiring a keen interest in the stock market, especially since they have been presented with Hong Kong and its world class stock market. The Reds have quickly learned how to manipulate the world's money markets and thus its economy - a chilling thought.

President Bill Clinton and Wall Street may get the picture sooner or later. Hollywood has already has a dose of China's way of dealing with dissent outside of the bamboo curtain.

The Chinese communists have threatened never to do business with three motion picture studios if certain movies are released - Red Corner by MGN, Kundun by Walt Disney and Seven Years in Tibet by Sony's Tristar Pictures. Jiang defended the boycott saying that the movies "hurt Chinese people's feelings."

Get real! The Chinese people are not allowed to feel.

China is waging a silent war on the United States, using bribery and greed as its weapons. As soon as the Reds have built their nuclear arsenal and the missiles to deliver them to the backyards of the American people, it could get noisy.

Trade economists say we should not really be all that surprised at China's use of bribery. China is engaging in Asian - not Western - business practices. "In China, like in many Asian countries, money buys influence," Greg Mastel, Vice President of the Economic Strategy Institute, told the Washington Times last Spring. "They're using tried and true business practices that have been tested in Asia. A lot of countries, not just Asian countries, are open to that kind of strategy."

China Resources Holding Company of Hong Kong is said to be the commercial arm of China's Ministry of Foreign Trade, and according to western intelligence sources, this international bank serves as a front for Chinese intelligence. China Resources owns half interest in Hong Kong Chinese Bank. The other half is owned by the Lippo Group, an Indonesian banking and real estate conglomerate which had close ties to President Clinton before all hell broke loose over illegal campaign contributions.

The so called campaign contribution scandal, as labeled by the national media, is actually a classical foreign intelligence operation which exploited corruptible politicians and lax security for strategic financial gain. China's intelligence interest and investments in Clinton is now bearing fruit in a windfall of one sided trade deals with the United States.

As Politics Now describes it, the Lippo controversy, as do many modern day scandals, "has many tentacles, multiple players of undetermined importance and no linear track. It snakes through the Commerce Department…. through the labyrinth of Arkansas politics, to the door of the DNC (Democratic National Committee)."

John Huang (pronounced "Wong") moved to Little Rock, Arkansas in 1984 while working for the Hong Kong Chinese Bank.

After a "waiver" of security clearance, he went to work for Ron Brown at the Commerce Department. (According to the Washington Times, First Lady Hillary Clinton hired Huang.)

After he had started working at the Commerce Department, Huang is said to have stayed in close touch with his old Lippo boss, Mochtar Riady, whose family owns Lippo. After serving at the Commerce Department 16 months as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Economic Policy, Huang went to work at Vice Chairman for Finance at the Democratic National Committee in 1995.

Commerce Department investigators are now looking into whether Huang began raising campaign contributions before he left the government post.

Riady and Huang are said to have been instrumental in Clinton granting China Most Favored Nation (MFN) trade status, which resulted in sweetheart deals for Lippo involving billions of dollars (some underwritten by U.S. Export-Import Bank) and a softening of Clinton's stance on Indonesia's labor practices (protested by Amnesty International).

After the light of day exposed the shady deals and illegal campaign contributions, President Clinton portrayed himself as the innocent victim of Huang, who he said came into his "home" and took advantage of his "hospitality."

Paul Bedard of the Washington Times, however, didn't buy the routine of the "unknowing victim who trusted too much." He said there was strong evidence that Clinton played a major role in the shady fundraising deals.

Republican Congressional investigators questioned whether the Riady family (Lippo) was given preferential treatment or allowed to influence foreign policy toward Asia in return for millions of dollars in donations to the Democratic Party.

A March, 1993 letter has surfaced in which Mochtar Riady asked Clinton to re-normalize relations with Vietnam. In the letter, Riady told Clinton that Lippo "managers" were checking our "investment opportunities" there.

Five months later (August of 1993), Lippo opened a representative office in Vietnam.

Six months after that (February of 1994), the U.S. embargo was lifted.

And in July of 1995, the U.S. government normalized relations with Vietnam.

As the scandal began to surface, a lot of people started dying in "accidents" and from "unknown causes.

CHINA IS CONNECTED TO LIPPO WHICH IS CONNECTED TO CLINTON WHO HIRES BROWN WHO HIRES HUANG WHO ALSO WORKS FOR LIPPO WHO GETS CAUGHT HELPING THE CHINESE GAIN ACCESS TO THE WHITE HOUSE— THEN A BUNCH OF PEOPLE DIE

Commerce Secretary Ron Brown died in a controversial plane crash in 1996 during a trade mission to Croatia. Fifteen Commerce Department employees, 12 business executives and one CIA agent died with Brown. All of the Commerce Department employees were working projects dealing with China and most of the corporate executives represented U.S. companies with business interests in China.

Mohammed Samir Ferrat, an Algerian business associate of Brown who had been scheduled to accompany Brown on the Croatian trip but withdrew at the last minute for reasons still unclear, died in July of 1996 on the ill fated TWA Flight 800.

Ferrat was investigated by the FBI because he was the sole passenger on the flight roster listed only by last name. Within hours of beginning their investigation of Ferrat, the FBI oddly withdrew, telling the New York Times, "Ferrat was not at all the kind of person to take a bomb on a plane."

Ferrat was involved in international business dealings, including some with China.

In November of 1996, a Commerce Department employee was found dead in her office. Barbara Alice Wise, age 48, of Maryland had been a secretary for 14 years with the department's International Trade Administration. After Washington, D.C. police told the media that Wise died from "natural causes," they continued investigating her death as a homicide.

Records from Wise's office, which had been subpoenaed in a lawsuit, suddenly turned up missing.

The "Judicial Watch" lawsuit alleged that Ron Brown's "trade missions" to Asia were actually fund raising junkets for Clinton. The London Times speculated that Brown would likely have faced indictment on charges of corruption if he had not died first.

REMEMBER LIPPO IS A PARTNER TO RED CHINA

According to Roll Call newspaper, more than two dozen members of Congress (mostly Democrats) received a total of $91,000 from Lippo-tied contributors between 1988 and 1996. Huang was said to have raised $4 million for the Democratic Party.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) had to return much of the money raised at the His Lai Temple near Los Angeles. The fund raiser brought in $140,000.

One contributor told the Wall Street Journal that "others" gave her the money for her $5,000 contribution. Man Ya Shih, who is said to have been affiliated with Lippo, said a "Democratic (Party) Activist" gave her the $5,000 in small bills and told her it came from another source who wanted to remain anonymous.

DNC officials later called the event at His Lai Temple "inappropriate" and claimed it would repay the temple the $15,000 that had been spent on the event. (Tax exempt organizations are not allowed to make political contributions.)

Temple founder Shing Yun had given the DNC $5,000, and several others who listed the temple as their address had contributed between $2,000 and $5,000. (Foreign companies and citizens are not allowed to make political contributions. However, individuals who have green cards can make the political contributions while they are in the United States.)

JESSE HELMS CONNECTED TO LIPPO TOO

Senator Jesse Helms, Chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who has been uncharacteristically quiet about China's intelligence penetration of the Clinton White House and the so called campaign finance scandal, got some of that Lippo money, too.

The Helms for Senate Committee received $7,500 from First Union Corporation of Charlotte, N.C. First Union also donated $183,000 in soft money to the North Carolina Republican Party which greatly benefited Helms. First Union is in a partnership with Lippo and the Red Chinese owned Hong Kong Chinese Bank.

No wonder Helms is quiet.

HEY, BUY THIS BIG GUN SO YOU CAN SHOOT ME WITH IT

The AP and Knight-Ridder Newspapers on October 27, 1997 unveiled a chilling scenario: "Beset by food and fuel shortages, China uses Russian-built submarines, destroyers and jet fighters to attack Vietnam and seize control of the South China Sea.

"Japan tests nuclear weapons. North Korea attacks South Korea. Only the likelihood of nuclear annihilation prevents World War III."

A thriller published recently by British journalists Humphrey Hawksley and Simon Holberton entitled Dragonstrike: The Millennium War portrays China deploying the best military technology in the world to reach far beyond its borders.

And, according to the AP report, China is this moment shopping for more advanced military hardware: "While reducing the size of its three million-man land army, it has put new emphasis on projecting naval and air power. It has acquired submarines, anti-ship missiles and advanced fighter aircraft from Russia, and sought to develop communications systems needed for modern warfare. . .

"China has denied reports that it diverted to military research a U.S. -made supercomputer intended for weather observation. There are also allegations that machine tools sold to China by McDonnell Douglas for manufacturing civilian jets ended up at a military complex. . ."

Commerce Secretary William Daley admits American business leaders are clamoring for first place in line to sell American nuclear "power" technology, airplanes and telecommunication equipment.

Although the giant corporations are aware of the nation's need to check proliferation of nuclear material, Daley admitted that "we would like to be in a position of advocating on behalf of U.S. business."

An AP report in early October revealed that China plans to build 20 new reactors in the coming years, and the U.S. nuclear companies are racing for approval to enter the Chinese market because of declining demand at home.

Daley admitted that he and China officials would be discussing between 12 and 24 Chinese projects in the areas of communications, aerospace, energy and infrastructure. U.S. companies are in hot competition for the business.

China Overseas Shipping Company (COSCO), owned by the Chinese Liberation Army, has been offered the closed Long Beach Navy base for expansion of its U.S. "shipping operations."

Tung Chee-hua, Director of COSCO and Chief Executive of Hong Kong, wasted no time in abolishing an elected legislature in Hong Kong. He then rigged the election laws for May's elections to ensure that appointees are returned to office; removed a number of political rights and freedoms; and abolished labor and worker rights laws.

The U.S. Navy has put on hold the lease of Long Beach Naval Station until after an intelligence briefing on the politically charged deal.

Republican Representatives Randy "Duke" Cunningham and Duncan Hunter sought the suspension, citing COSCO's record of gun-running, safety violations and kickbacks allegedly paid to shippers.

Republicans say COSCO is part of an illegal Chinese arms smuggling operation that surfaced last year when 2,000 automatic weapons headed for the streets of Los Angeles were seized off a company ship in Oakland, California.

OTHER LAWMAKERS GRILL JIANG OVER HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

Members of Congress met Jiang in Washington before Jiang's Wall Street performance. The U.S. lawmakers complained about abuse of jailed dissidents, religious persecution, forced abortion and nuclear proliferation.

Jiang told the congressmen in so many words to mind their own business.

U.S. lawmakers didn't like the responses they received from Jiang on human rights. Reactions to Jiang's admonition to keep out of his domestic business ranged from New Jersey Republican Congressman Chris Smith's "He told whoppers; he told big lies" to California Democrat Nancy Pelosi's "There was not very much candor."

After leaving the lawmakers, Jiang looked on approvingly as Chinese officials signed a $3 billion order for 50 Boeing jets.

Then, President Clinton reciprocated by stroking the dragon with a promise to lift the ban on nuclear power technology sales to China.

In return, Jiang had to promise that Beijing would be good and not sell any nuclear weapons to Iran.