- Several months ago, I focused attention on our peaceful northern neighbor, Canada, and the problems they were apparently having with the Communist Chinese. Inasmuch as the Communist Chinese successfully infiltrated every level of the Clinton Administration with a cash-for-access plan, a dual process was taking place in Canada. Massive land purchases and alarming dual-use technology business buy-outs were documented in Project Sidewinder, compiled by Canadian Security Intelligence Service (the full report still hasn't been released). Communist Chinese were filtering through Canada, only to disappear somewhere in America. Dual-use technology purchases of fiber optic gyroscopes, funneled through Canadian businesses to China, were exposed by custom agents. My concern over these activities, and my assertion that they were part of a coordinated effort, made some people speculate that I had tipped my bag and lost a few of my proverbial marbles.
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- Nevertheless, Chinese spies were successful in infiltrating the Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., (AECL) and making off with plans for their Slowpoke nuclear reactor. The AECL has recently been forced to shelve it's own plans to sell the reactor abroad because China's stolen copy is much less expensive. According to a Globe report dated January 24, 2000, China didn't even have the courtesy to change the reactor's name, calling their own a "Slowpoke." How did they gain access to this technology? A source indicated, "What they didn't buy, they stole." (Globe, January 24, 2000). Sound familiar?
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- When I attempted to focus attention on Senator Tom Daschle's plan to give the Soviets $1.2 billion on military aid (of which they ultimately received $444,000,000), decrying their continued cooperation with China's military [PLA] build-up, some folks were positive I had turned daffy.
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- Nevertheless, in August of 1999, China purchased 2 billion in Su-30MKK fighter jets, which are now in use, and on December 25, 1999, accepted delivery of a Russian Sovremenny Class destroyer, Type 956. We pay them millions to keep their military solvent, and China buys billions in Russian military technology. Who is kidding who?
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- When I chided Congress for not listening to FBI Director Louis Freeh's 1997 testimony before the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, regarding his concerns for expanding encryption code allowances, some folks thought I was uninformed.
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- Nevertheless, the United States is now pressing China's government to comply with new encryption regulations by February 1, 2000, in the hopes of getting the encryption horse back in the barn:
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- "Under regulations that take effect on Monday, all foreign and mainland companies or individuals using encryption technology, which protects electronic communication from eavesdropping, must register with the government." (South China Morning Post, "Encryption Rules Focus of US Talks," Reuters in Washington, January 29, 2000).
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- Given their past record of non-compliance, we have nothing to fear, right?
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- When I insisted that our disastrous policy of continued engagement with China could only hurt the United States, some folks were sure I was overreacting.
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- Nevertheless, "Andy Marshall, who takes charge of threats evaluation section of the US Department of Defense, recently said that he was worried that 'a nonsymmetrical war' would break out [over Taiwan] in which US weak points would be thoroughly exposed. Under Marshall's instructions, former Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Bai Bang-rui designed a war game with China as the opponent, which showed that although the US had the most powerful armament in the world, more often than not it became the loser in a fight against the PLA." (BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, January 17, 2000).
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- Don't mind me. I'm just counting my marbles.
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- Carolyn Katzan contributed to this article.
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- www.american-partisan.com
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- http://www.american-partisan.com/cols/razzano/020300.htm
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