-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.newaus.com.au/peter.html <A HREF="http://www.newaus.com.au/peter.html">The New Australian's China and Asia Report</A> ----- Clinton: Beijing's man in Washington The New Australian No. 111, 15-21 March 1999 Why anyone should be surprised at discovering what is common knowledge in China's intellectual and political circles still evidently puzzles some American commentators. Nearly nine months a go I pointed that among certain government and military officials Clinton is contemptuously referred to as "nanren men zai hua sheng dun" (our man in Washington). I think I should stress contempt. I do not believe Beijing has ever held any Western leader in such low esteem. The damage this thoroughly corrupt and venal man has done to America's reputation among the Chinese people is incalculable. Not only that, but his cowardice and vacillation has greatly strengthened the hands of military nationalists at the expense of those who prefer a more open policy with the West. The result has been rising tension as Beijing virtually annexes the Spratley Islands, sure in the knowledge that, unlike Truman, Eisenhower or Reagan, Clinton lacks the courage to act. This will not go unnoticed among Asian governments. As far as they are concerned, there is no American president. I shall now repeat what I wrote at the beginning of February: "There is no doubt that Clinton allowed military technology to be sold to the PLA for campaign funds." And this is in China, not Washington or New York. Any Western journalist could have picked this up if they had bothered to look. Now I see Democrats, much to the amusement of certain Chinese officials, blaming the Reagan administration for sensitive technology 'transfers.' Let me make something absolutely clear. No such transfers occurred under Reagan or any other Republican administration. Any Democrat or journalist who states otherwise is a liar. China has run a sophisticated spying operation in the US for many years and money was literally no object. Whatever was demanded was supplied. Under Clinton, however, the situation radically changed. Instead of having to steal technology, as they did under Reagan, they simply bribed Clinton into transferring it to them. And I mean bribe. For once operations did not have to be conducted through the Central External Liaison Department or the Central Control of Intelligence but directly through government officials, including intelligence and PLA officers, who visited the White House. This would have been like Reagan opening up the Oval Office to the KGB. The deal was simple — money for technology. Even better was the arrangement by which American corporations directly assisted Beijing to upgrade its weapons systems — for a price. The likes of William Hambrecht and Bernard Schwartz, well-known heavy contributors to the Democratic Party, have also benefited handsomely from arrangements with the PLA, as have a great many other big shot executives who seem to prefer the colour green to red, white and blue. What would get you the death penalty in Asia could buy you a New York estate in the US. What the activities of these greedy executives might eventually cost their fellow American citizens is something that only time will tell. Directly or indirectly Chinese money was funnelled into the Democratic machine. What sweet irony for Beijing. The party of containment had become the party of collaborators, with members actively sabotaging investigations into the Chinese intelligence connection. The rot is so deep that even John Glenn, along with Tom Daschle, deliberately crippled the Thompson hearings into the scandal, or should I say treason. After all, it might have revealed which Senators and members of Congress desperately tried to get their share of the loot. This brings us to why the Clinton White House ignored briefings that Chinese intelligence was running a number of spy operations at weapons laboratories. Simple: it did not really care because it already knew. A subsidiary reason is that Clinton and a number of other collaborators were now hopelessly compromised in any case. No wonder Chinese officials privately express nothing but contempt for these Quislings, what we Chinese call pan tu (traitor). Now don't misunderstand me. Just because Clinton and his buddies gave China a free ride don't think it let up on other intelligence activities, far from it, something that the Los Alamos National Laboratory scandal has made perfectly clear. Only time will tell how many other intelligence scandals are brewing and whether they will ever see the light of day. I suspect there will be a lot of document shredding during the rest of Clinton's term, not to mention hush money. The Clinton administration's collaboration with Chinese intelligence allowed it to allocate even more funds to its American operations. How many agents it has managed to place because of the Clintons' greed and indifference to the national welfare is known only to the highest Chinese officials as is the number of American officials that have been bought or compromised. The damage to American national security is very deep and longstanding. Rest assured, anything that would give China's military an advantage over the US is also bad for the Chinese people. If I thought otherwise I would not have written this. For example, Beijing was able to laugh at Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's mild comments about Beijing's treatment of dissidents. Why did Beijing correctly think that Albright's trip would come to nothing, despite the State Department's Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1998 which spoke harshly of China? How did it know that Congress and the White House would do nothing? How many taped conversations, for example, are sitting in Beijing government safes? Clinton had his FBI files but many believe Beijing has something much better. Without a doubt, its money was well spent. Whether the intelligence connection with Clinton goes back to the 1970s in any meaningful way is very unclear at the moment, and will probably remain so. But Chinese intelligence is always on the look out for a potential pan tu who might rise to an influential position and I would suggest that Clinton has it written all over him. The question now is how many more are there? Editor: It will come as no surprise to our American readers to learn that Australia's Clinton-loving journalists also buried the Chinese spy scandal. So if you think your media is corrupt, you should try to take a look at ours. ===== from: http://www.newaus.com.au/asia105clinton.html Is Clinton the Manchurian clone? By Zhang's Column No. 105, 1-7 February 1999 Many readers have asked whether there is more to Chinese officials calling Clinton "nanren men zai hua sheng dun" (our man in Washington)* than just mandarin-like smugness. Surely, they wonder, there is something more sinister afoot. Yes, is the answer, but not in the way they have construed it. What is not generally understood is that Beijing's 'control' over Clinton has been exercised by exploiting his venality, arrogance, intellectual vanity and immoral nature. As keen students of history (I do not mean that dialectical nonsense) with an unbroken cultural tradition extending back several thousand years, they have become astute judges of character. (An invaluable faculty in an environment where only the ruthless rise to the top and where an erroneous character assessment has been known to prove fatal). This is why Clinton's secret meeting with high-ranking PLA officers have gone so well for Beijing. Unlike Clinton and, to put it bluntly, his policy hacks Chinese officials have cultural continuity, a fierce nationalist pride and a sense and feel for history. For them, there is no short-term gratification; each move, tactic and manoevre is designed to promote the long term interest of the Middle Kingdom.** These people have only justifiable contempt for the Clinton administration's student-sixties view of the world. A view that could have dire consequences for the West if it is not dealt with. I have no doubt it will come as a surprise to Clinton's supporters to learn that Beijing officials have the greatest respect for Harry Truman. Here was a man who stood up for America, valued its traditions, never mocked its history or achievements and had no illusions about its enemies, recognising their true nature. The danger does not come from communism, which is truly dead in China, it comes from crude nationalism: the kind that fuelled Nazi Germany and motivated the Japanese military. Just as the economic mismanagement and political incompetence created conditions for the rise of Naziism, so a similar chain of events might arise in China. None of this is understood in the kindergarten that was once called the Oval Office. Instead of standing fast with China's reformers, offering them unstinting support, making clear there would be no truck with warlords, Clinton chose to abandon them. There is no doubt that Clinton allowed military technology to be sold to the PLA for campaign funds and other 'measures'. Not a soul in Beijing questions this view. Even some within the PLA were shocked at the willingness of the Clinton political machine to put at risk the very survival of its country. But perhaps what caused them the greatest shock (though a pleasant one) was that Clinton, his advisers and business supporters were incapable of understanding the nature of their offence. It was literally beyond their understanding. Disconnected from any moral moorings and totally alienated from the traditions and history of their own country, they were adrift in a cultural vacuum. No wonder Chinese officials could not believe their luck. However, these officials are not fools. They know just how rapidly the American mood can swing, something the Korean War taught them. But they also recognise that there exists in America a very strong isolationist undercurrent that runs in tandem with an even stronger tradition of patriotism. The trick is to stroke the former without provoking the latter. In this respect they have been remarkably lucky in the person of William Jefferson Clinton, the most narcissistic, pliable and corrupt president in the history of the United States. By occasionally rattling the sabre at Sadam while simultaneously gutting America's military machine he has not only diverted attention from events in China he has also weakened America's ability to deal with an aggressive Chinese m ilitary dictatorship should one emerge. I firmly believe it is only because the American media is dominated by the dregs of the sixties and seventies that Clinton has been allowed to escape the just consequences of his destructive behaviour. What depresses me, and so many informed Chinese, is that the American public is yet to see through man; to realise the mortal danger he may very well have placed it. Do not get me wrong. I am not suggesting for a moment that PLA generals are planning a first strike. What could happen is that some of them might mistake Clinton's cowardice and moral degeneracy as representative of the nation and act on the assumption that aggression does indeed have its own rewards, just as Japan did in the 1930s. Remember that Hitler was absolutely convinced that Britain was so weak morally and militarily that it would never fight. The rest, as they say, is history. In the final scene of the The Manchurian Candidate the brainwashed victim, who has broken free of his controler, assassinates his mother and stepfather who were at the centre of a plot to murder the president and take control of the country. Unfortunately Clinton is so thoroughly corrupt that there is absolutely nothing he can do to redeem himself. He is not a victim of circumstances. He is not a victim of his instincts. He is a dangerous self-absorbed brat with no concern for anyone or anything, possessing only a pathological need to satisfy his own desires regardless of the cost to others. The sooner the Clinton presidency and everyone and everything connected with it has been exorcised from America the safer the world will be. I guess at heart I am an optimist. The Chinese people do not want war — they want a prosperous peace. America should do everything in its power to help bring that about. Doing dirty backroom deals the the butchers of Tianamen Square is not the way to do it. Perhaps now readers will understand why Clinton is called "nanren men zai hua sheng dun" (our man in Washington) as well as hou yan wu chi. *Clinton's China visit: appeasement or engagement? **This is not to say they will not line their own pocket should the opportunty present itself, only that they would not sell their country. ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. 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