RED FLAGS OF TREASON SUBSECTION: SHIPPING AND PORTS

RED FLAGS OF TREASON
SUBSECTION: SHIPPING AND PORTS
Revised 8/10/00
GENERAL Information
PANAMA Information
COSCO Information."Washington Times 3/16/99 Frank Gaffney, Jr. "…Clinton policies, practices and personnel that will, if uncorrected, give rise to a far more ominous problem for this country emanating from the People's Republic of China in the 21st century.

(1) Policy. Ever since it came to office (on a platform that correctly castigated the Bush administration for coddling China's communist dictators), the Clinton administration has pursued a policy it calls "engagement"…

• Ignoring or downplaying the significance of Chinese trafficking in weapons of mass destruction and other dangerous materiel….
• Helping China penetrate this country (notably, through four personal interventions by the president on behalf of COSCO, the Chinese merchant marine, in its bid for the U.S. Navy facility at Long Beach, Calif.), its capital markets (through unscrutinized bond and equities offerings); its economy (through inequitable trade arrangements that would be exacerbated by China's admission to the World Trade Organization under present circumstances); and even its political system (through the solicitation and use by the Clinton-Gore campaign of funds provided by Chinese intelligence and PLA operatives).
• And discouraging U.S. allies in Asia from expressing alarm over, let alone resisting, China's expansionist impulses in the region…."

(2) Practices: The W-88 episode has put into sharp relief the Clinton administration's appalling, systematic disregard of the most basic of security procedures…

• A Customs sting operation blown by an as-yet-unidentified Clinton official before it netted a Chinese "princeling"…
• Withholding from Congress information it is entitled to have about the PRC's malevolent intelligence and proliferation activities….

NEWSMAX 3/10/99 Christopher Ruddy "…Here are the shocking facts:
CLINTON URGED TURNOVER OF LONG BEACH PORT TO THE RED ARMY … COSCO -- the Chinese Overseas Shipping Company, a subsidiary of China's People's Liberation Army -- would be allowed to lease the navy shipyards in Long Beach, California for 16 annual payments of $14.5 million a year (total: $232 million). The deal would also have required the Port of Long Beach to spend $235 million to modernize the facilities….
AUTHORIZED IMPORTATION OF 100,000 CHINESE COMBAT RIFLES In 1996, soon after Clinton had signed a law outlawing importing foreign semi-automatic weapons into the US, he signed a waiver allowing the Chinese Overseas Shipping Co. -- COSCO (a subsidiary of the Red Army) -- to allow them to import 100,000 semi-automatic military rifles into the US, as well as millions of rounds of ammunition. Not content to just bring in semi-automatic weapons, COSCO also tried to smuggle in 2,000 illegal, fully automatic Chinese AK-47s. According to press reports, these weapons were destined to be sold to street gangs in Oakland. That seems like a phony cover story. We still need to know why China tried to smuggle into California enough weapons to equip an army....
GIVES CONTROL OF THE PANAMA CANAL TO CHINA… President Clinton has allowed a company controlled by Chinese communists -- Hutchinson-Whampoa Ltd. -- to take control of the Canal cities at both ends of the Canal. Further, under Panamanian Law #5, Hutchinson-Whampoa will determine which ships are allowed to enter the Canal and many of the Canal's operations. This is utterly absurd and frightening…. "

USA Today 1/7/00 Laura Parker "….Immigration officials on the West Coast are investigating what may be a new trend in immigrant smuggling after having caught 99 Chinese nationals hiding aboard cargo container ships. The discoveries started in late December. The Chinese, all men, were found concealed in cargo containers aboard six cargo ships that sailed from Hong Kong. Two of the vessels were owned by the family of Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, the highest public official in Hong Kong. "There is a working group of law enforcement that's taking a closer look at this smuggling in the soft-top containers to see what's behind it," said Sharon Gavin, a spokeswoman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service's western region. "This is a relatively new trend." The latest arrests were made Tuesday in Seattle when 14 Chinese nationals hidden in a container tried to flee as immigration officials searched the docked ship Norasia Shamsha A day earlier, 25 Chinese were taken into custody in Vancouver, British Columbia, when they were discovered aboard the Seattle-bound California Jupiter, and 18 Chinese were apprehended in Long Beach, Calif., when they were discovered in a filthy container on the Zim Shekou as the ship came into the harbor. …."