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Li Ka-Shing: Red arms dealer
In October 1999, the Clinton White
House denied that Chinese billionaire
Li Ka-Shing is working for the
communists in Beijing. The White
House press secretary labeled such
accusations as "silly" and dismissed
them as "the kind of thing you see
around here from time to time."
Yet, in August 1994, the Clinton White
House did not think Li Ka-Shing's
connection to the red Chinese
leadership was silly. President Clinton
thought so highly of Li Ka-Shing that
he equated and included the
communist financier with the red
leaders of Beijing in a package of
intelligence information supplied to a
Democratic National Committee
million-dollar donor.
The Clinton White House thought so
much of Li Ka-Shing that they passed a
complete intelligence bio on the
Chinese billionaire directly to DNC
donor Loral Aerospace CEO Bernard
Schwartz just prior to a trade trip to
Beijing. Along with Li Ka-Shing's bio,
the White House also gave Schwartz
the detailed biographies of the entire
Chinese communist leadership from
President Jiang Zemin to the mayor of
Shanghai.
Li Ka-Shing's bio and the bios of other
leading communist party members
were exposed here in an exclusive
WorldNetDaily column. The Clinton
White House illegally withheld the
documents from public release using
false claims.
In September 1998, the Commerce
Department was forced by a federal
lawsuit to release these documents from
the files of the late Secretary Ron
Brown. The Clinton administration bio
of the red leadership included a
cover-sheet addressed to a blacked-out
"intelligence agency," informing the
secret agency that the documents had to
be made public.
Li Ka-Shing and the Chinese red
leadership bios are available on the
Internet. They are official Clinton
administration documents.
According to Forbes, Li Ka-Shing is the
sixth richest man in the world. Li
claims to be neither a red Chinese
government official nor a member of
any military service. Yet, the Clinton
White House bio states that Li is a
"member of the board of directors of the
China International Trust and
Investment Corporation (CITIC)."
According to a 1997 Rand Corporation
report sponsored by the Clinton
administration, CITIC is an "investment
concern under China's governmental
State Council." CITIC "became
identified with the PLA as a result of
the scandal surrounding Wang Jun and
his visit to the White House on 6
February 1996."
In February 1996, President Clinton
met with Chinese arms dealer Wang
Jun after taking a donation from
Arkansas DNC donor Charlie Trie. The
Rand Corp. noted that "Wang Jung is
both director of CITIC and Chairman of
Poly Group, the arms trading company
of the General Staff Department."
In short, Wang Jun was an arms dealer
from the Chinese army.
According to the Rand Corporation
report, "Poly Technologies, Ltd., was
founded in 1984, ostensibly as a
subsidiary of CITIC, although it was
later exposed to be the primary
commercial arm of the PLA General
Staff Department's Equipment
Sub-Department. Throughout the
1980s, Poly sold hundreds of millions
of dollars of largely surplus arms
around the world, exporting to
customers in Thailand, Burma, Iran,
Pakistan, and the United States."
The Rand report concluded, "CITIC
does enter into business partnerships
with and provide logistical assistance
to PLA and defense-industrial
companies like Poly. Poly's U.S.
subsidiaries were abruptly closed in
August 1996. Allegedly, Poly's
representative, Robert Ma, conspired
with China North Industries
Corporation's (NORINCO)
representative, Richard Chen, and a
number of businessmen in California to
illegally import 2000 AK-47s into the
United States."
"Unfortunately for them," states the
Rand report, "their 'customers' turned
out to be undercover U.S. Customs and
BATF agents, posing as members of a
Miami syndicate. Poly's representative,
Robert Ma, fled the country one step
ahead of Federal law enforcement
officials who had a warrant for his
arrest, and his current whereabouts are
unknown."
The Rand Corporation did not neglect
to document Li Ka-Shing's direct
connections to the Chinese military.
According to the Rand report,
"Hutchison Whampoa of Hong Kong,
controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li
Ka-Shing, is also negotiating for PLA
wireless system contracts, which would
build upon his equity interest in
Poly-owned Yangpu Land
Development Company, which is
building infrastructure on China's
Hainan Island."
Clearly, Li Ka-Shing helps to fund the
People's Liberation Army by providing
financing for Chinese army weapons
sales through Poly Technologies and
for purchases of advanced western
military technology.
For example, CITIC also owns a
controlling interest in the Hong Kong
based Asia Satellite Telecom Co. Ltd.,
or AsiaSat. AsiaSat, a company
founded in 1988, operates several
communications satellites in the Far
East bought from U.S. manufacturers
such as Hughes.
AsiaSat is also a front company for the
People's Liberation Army. According to
"Aviation Week and Space
Technology," AsiaSat is also
part-owned by the Chinese army unit
COSTIND (the Commission on Science,
Technology and Industry for National
Defense). AsiaSat satellites regularly
carry "military communications" traffic
for PLA units and Chinese
military-owned companies.
It is no surprise that AsiaSat signed an
exclusive deal with billionaire Li
Ka-Shing to carry his STAR television
service, 54 channels of premium
cable/satellite television including
MTV, re-runs of American sitcoms
dubbed in various languages, and
pay-per-view X-rated movies. Li
Ka-Shing later sold all of his STAR TV
holdings in two huge chunks to news
magnate Rupert Murdoch for nearly a
billion dollars.
Li Ka-Shing's joint ventures with the
Chinese military are not limited to
high-tech satellites and
communications deals. One joint
venture led by Li Ka-Shing nearly
added four new invasion ships to the
Chinese navy.
In January 1997, President Clinton
authorized four huge "roll on-off"
container ships for export directly to
China. The four container ships were to
be constructed for the China Ocean
Shipping Company (COSCO) and Li
Ka-Shing's Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.
by the Alabama Shipyards in Mobile,
Ala.
The four U.S. ships were to be built
using $138 million in private loans
backed by the U.S. government. The
loans had very favorable terms
including low interest rates and a
25-year re-payment plan, longer than
the expected life of the ships. The loans
were also U.S.-backed, so even if the
ship and owner disappeared, the
federal government would still repay
the lenders.
COSCO is the flag carrier for China,
hauling official cargo exported by the
Chinese government, including
weapons; for example, the fully
automatic AK-47 machineguns from
Poly Technologies that were confiscated
in the 1996 U.S. Customs sting
operation were found onboard a
COSCO ship.
Recent U.S. Navy photos show COSCO
cargo ships carrying missile-armed
patrol boats bound for Iran and tons of
depleted uranium anti-tank shells for
Pakistan. COSCO ships have carried jet
fighters, missile parts and tanks for
export to Iran, Iraq, Syria and Libya.
The COSCO container ship deal fell
apart in November 1997 due to
"commercial" reasons blamed on the
Asian financial crisis, Senator
Thompson's hearings into the Clinton
White House and the Poly Technologies
sting. In 1998, Clinton officials
nervously pointed out that "no money"
was involved because the deal fell
apart.
Nevertheless, the Chinese navy deal to
acquire these ships actually started in
1993 when Bill Clinton and the
Democrats were starved for donation
cash. The Maritime shipyard-funding
program, managed by the Department
of Transportation, was created to
finance American-built ships sold to
U.S. flag companies.
In 1993, the Democratic-controlled
Congress joined President Clinton and
altered the program to allow U.S.
financing on ships built for export. Li
Ka-Shing, COSCO, Ron Brown and Bill
Clinton worked to provide the four
container ships, including the low cost,
100 percent U.S. government-backed
loans, to Hutchison Whampoa and
COSCO.
COSCO -- which is part of the Chinese
navy and wholly owned by the Chinese
government -- is best known for the
recent unsuccessful attempt to purchase
the former Long Beach Naval station.
COSCO and Li Ka-Shing's Hutchison
Whampoa Ltd. now control both ends
of the Panama Canal.
Bill Clinton considers Li Ka-Shing to be
a power in red China equal to that of
Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Bill
Clinton's White House opened its doors
to Li Ka-Shing and his Beijing buddies
in the Chinese army surplus outlet
store, Poly Technologies. It is the
responsibility of Congress to look into
Li Ka-Shing and Bill Clinton despite
the lies and spin from the White House.
The only thing silly about Li Ka-Shing's
relationship to Bill Clinton is the White
House denial that the Chinese
billionaire is part of the red leadership
in Beijing. Li Ka-Shing's relationship
with Bill Clinton is documented by his
own administration.
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