Originally posted by Sandman_SBM:
I'll bite. How is this Clinton's fault?
Here you go, sorry I didn't retype it myself:
In 1994 Bernard Schwartz, CEO of Loral Aerospace, went to China with
Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. Bernard Schwartz, by co-incidence, also
donated just over a million dollars to the DNC. When Mr. Schwartz flew to
China he hoped to make a sale or two, perhaps to offset the large DNC
donation checks he had just written. His company, Loral, makes some
pretty high tech equipment, so the China - low-tech - market had great
appeal. For example, Loral manufactures satellites, radars, global
navigation and world wide secure communications systems. All the fine
things a "wannabe" super-power would desire.
In 1994, just prior to traveling with Brown, Mr. Schwartz had his LORAL
staff prepare a shopping list for the Chinese and Ron Brown. This list,
complete with very big pictures, would make LORAL's large ticket items
easier to understand and digest at Ron Brown's (executive) level.
However, the same list would also make anyone familiar with military
equipment go bananas.
On that day Ron Brown stopped being Secretary of Commerce and started his
new career as an international arms dealer. The items LORAL carried to
the meeting with Ron Brown resemble a JANE'S Defense catalog of high tech
weapons. Some of the Loral suggested "red" ticket items up for sale
included "Airborne Reconnaissance Cameras, Weapon Delivery, Target
Acquisition, Missile Guidance, Shipboard Target Acquisition, Radar
Warning, Missile Warning, RF Jamming, IR Jamming..." and so on.
Please note - Anything that starts with "weapon", "missile" or "target
acquisition" does NOT qualify as a civilian application.
The result of the 1994 China trade trip?
Today, China is using Loral satellites to perform all weather bombing
using a "western" based navigation system in their modified Russia SU-27
FLANKER jet fighters. These navigation aids were originally sold to China
under the condition they would be used on "civilian" airliners. Of
course, now that the satellites are under PRC control, their civilian
operation has been shifted slightly. The SU-27s are made in Russia (soon
to be copied by license in China) and they are not going to complain about
the navigation gear being tuned to Schwartz's satellites. Thus, the next
bombs to fall in anger from a PLA warplane will come courtesy (and with
great accuracy) via the USA.
Another US, high-tech, upgrade for the benefit of China's Generals and
Commissars is their new secure military communication system. China is
now using US built secure encoding systems to protect their military
satellite and global communications. This 21st century system is a
decades leap forward for the Chinese, who previously depended on former
Soviet built analog scramblers to protect their highest military orders.
The great leap forward for the PRC did not come at the end of years of
costly R&D followed by careful deployment. Instead, the Princes in Beijing
can now issue nuclear launch code orders using C4 (Command, Control,
Communications, and Computers) systems that rival the best in the free
west. Basically, this is because their system was built in the free west.
So who is responsible for this? A dead Ron Brown? A very much richer
Bernard Schwartz?
We have Bill Clinton to thank for arming the Chinese this time around.
Bill Clinton personally tasked Bernard Schwartz on a "PRESIDENTIAL
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MISSION" for Red China. Schwartz actually carried
papers of authorization from his friend Bill with him to China. Thus, it
comes as no surprise that once in China, Schwartz met with Shen Rong-Jun,
Vice Minister for COSTIND (Commission of Science, Technology, & Industry
for National Defense). I do not know if Rong-Jun is related to Wang Jun,
the Chinese arms dealer who paid his way into the White House at about the
same time. However, I do know that COSTIND is an arm of the People's
Liberation Army; note the ND stands for "National Defense". In the end,
Rong-Jun and Wang Jun were really working for the same boss... The
People's Liberation Army.
Additional proof of who authorized the military exports to China comes not
from a SOFTWAR FOIA but from a recently published GAO report on US weapons
exports to China. The GAO published a report on May 7, NSAID-98-171,
which states "According to State (Department) officials, since 1990, 11
Presidential waivers have been issued removing export restrictions on 21
satellite projects. Presidential waivers were also granted to permit the
export of encryption equipment controlled on the Munitions List".
Thus, Bill Clinton determined it was in our national interest to arm Red
China. He wrote the waivers. He authorized the sales... He took the
donations.
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Notice Ron Brown ain't around anymore....
