-Caveat Lector-
Clinton's own former CIA chief accused the Clinton administration of
"appeasement" toward the People's
Republic of China, calling the policy
"wrong-headed and dangerous." A Tuesday afternoon AP dispatch, caught
by the MRC's new Director of the Free
Market Project, Rich Noyes, relayed the comments of James Woolsey.
No network picked up on the criticism
Tuesday night, but keep your eyes open to see if you see any coverage
Wednesday.
In the article distributed at 1:11pm ET
on October 26, the AP's Barry Schweid wrote from Washington:
Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey today
accused the Clinton administration of pursuing a policy of appeasement
toward China and likened it to the way
Britain and France dealt with Nazi Germany on Czechoslovakia before
World
War II.
"It is wrong-headed and dangerous," Woolsey
said as a House committee prepared to hold a hearing on legislation that
would authorize the sale of conventional
submarines, a theater missile defense and other military assistance to
Taiwan.
The House International Relations Committee
separately approved a bill that would increase military links with
Taiwan by
promoting U.S. training of Taiwan's military
officers and opening up lines of communication with the Taiwan military
during times of crisis.
Committee Chairman Ben Gilman, R-N.Y., said
the bill was in response to "Beijing's outright refusal to renounce the
use
of force against Taiwan" and its
"overwrought saber-rattling."....
Woolsey, central intelligence director for
President Clinton in 1993-1994, said the administration policy is a
potentially
tragic attempt at "strategic ambiguity" like
the failed effort by Britain and France to discourage Hitler from
seizing
Czechoslovakia.
"The executive branch needs to be forced to
change its shortsighted policy," Woolsey said in backing the legislation
at a
seminar at the Nixon Center, a private
research group.
Woolsey said Clinton's declaration of a "strategic
relationship" with
China, his adoption of a one-China approach on the
dispute between Beijing and Taipei and
repeated U.S. apologies for NATO's mistaken bombing of the Chinese
Embassy
in Belgrade in May have encouraged hard-line
factions in Beijing.
Appeasement is "a proper word to describe
the administration's stand," Woolsey said....
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http://www.mrc.org/news/cyberalert/1999/cyb19991027.html#4
Bard
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