-Caveat Lector- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 08:45:02 -0700 From: http://www.newaus.com.au/peter.html Beijing stakes out territory while Clinton commits treason No. 127, 26 July - 1 Aug. 1999 Beijing's angry response to Lee Teng-hui's declaration of independence for Taiwan was as predictable as Clinton's support for Beijing's bully-boy tactics. Think about it: The world's most powerful democracy and the only country in history to be literally born out of a set of principles based on the universal and inalienable rights of every human being kow towed to Beijing, the world's most powerful dictatorship. A country born out of liberty and the right of self-determination sides with glorified warlords against a democratic people who only demand for themselves what Americans rightly consider to be God-given rights. This is a gross betrayal of the fundamental beliefs upon which the American Republic rests and that is why Clinton is once again guilty of treason. Please, do not get me wrong. I am not suggesting that the American government should commit troops to the defence of Taiwan � that is for Americans to decide � only that no American president should side with tyranny against liberty, which is what Clinton is doing. I will go even further and state that no American government has the moral authority to deny any democracy the right to defend itself by purchasing weapons from American arms manufacturers. The right to defend one's liberty does not lapse at some American port let alone some Beijing-sponsored Clinton fund-raiser. In a show of shameless political obeisance that is even remarkable for Clinton, he publicly admitted that he had personally told Jiang Zemin on the phone that he opposed Taiwan's move to secure its liberty and was urging it to toe Beijing's line. As if to demonstrate his loyalty he went so far as to even publicly humiliate Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan's President. Sources have strongly intimated that Clinton promised Jiang that despite the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act which would allow the island the necessary assistance to defend itself he would do whatever was possible to circumvent the Act, and that he would make Lee Teng-hui aware of this fact. In addition, it is believed that certain Taipei officials have complained bitterly about the role that Kenneth Lieberthal, the National Security Council's chief China specialist, played in the affair. Lieberthal's pro-Beijing sympathies are so strong that Taipei officials consider him to be nothing but Beijing's catspaw. It was this behind the scenes pressure (or should I say treachery?) that 'persuaded' Lee Teng-hui to backpedal on Taiwan's right to independence. (No wonder Jiang reckons he got a bargain.) Compare Clinton's cowardly surrender to Jiang with Eisenhower's resolve when Mao threatened Taiwan (or Formosa as it was then known) in the mid-1950s and it will give you some idea of the extent to which moral courage has collapsed in the White House. In those days the world knew America would stand by its allies. Not under Clinton. No one should be surprised by Clinton's betrayal of a staunch American ally. On his Beijing visit, little more than a year ago, Clinton, at the prompting of Jiang Zemin, publicly announced that 20 million Taiwanese had no right to independence, meaning their liberty. As one Taiwanese official ruefully said: "We should have offered Clinton a bigger bribe than Beijing." (Readers will probably still be shocked to learn that there is probably not a single Asian government that does not believe Clinton sold the Oval Office to China). Americans should not make the mistake of thinking that the Taiwan incident is irrelevant to their security � quite the opposite. I have stressed several times that Clinton's actions have only served to strengthen the aggressive hand of China's nationalists while weakening the influence of reform-minded forces within the regime. Make no mistake: China sees itself as a Pacific power and the US as its only real long-term military rival in the region. Therefore it intends to eventually purge the region east of Hawaii of any US military presence. This would virtually eliminate the US as a Pacific power, basically confining its military influence to its western seaboard. By convincing Asian countries that China has no territorial ambitions and that America is an unreliable � if not treacherous1 � ally Beijing hopes to wean these nations away from America and thus fatally weaken its political and military influence in the region. Taiwan could turn out to be a watershed in this strategy by demonstrating to Asian countries that an American president is perfectly prepared to sacrifice an ally to serve his own political ambitions. Moreover, by publicly undermining American commitments to Taiwan Clinton might have encouraged the PLA's more reckless generals to propose a blockade of the island if not an actual assault. The more Beijing's aggressive nationalists perceive the US to lack the necessary moral resolve to act the more they will be tempted into a military action. The burden of having Clinton as president is surely getting heavier by the day. 1Thailand is still smarting from Clinton's insult. The Clinton administration assured the Thai government that it would support the appointment of the Thai Deputy Prime Minister Supachai Panitchpakdi to the director-generalship of the World Trade Organisation. It broke that promise in order to support Mike Moore, former prime minister of New Zealand, the country that abandoned the Western alliance even as Thailand stood shoulder to shoulder with Washington. ================================================================= Kaddish, Kaddish, Kaddish, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. ================================================================= DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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