August 24, 2000
Chinese to tour
sensitive facilities
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Pentagon is hosting a group of Chinese
strategic military planners whose trip to sensitive
U.S. military facilities is raising questions in
Congress about violations of law.
The delegation from China's Academy of
Military Sciences arrived Friday and is headed by
Gen. Wang Zuxun, the new head of the academy
that is developing military doctrine on how China
can use advanced technology to defeat more
powerful foes like the United States, said Pentagon
officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The group traveled earlier this week to several
U.S. military schools, but its visit today to the Joint
Forces Command in Norfolk is causing concern
among some members of Congress and officials in
the Pentagon.
The command is where the U.S. military is
developing its most advanced war-fighting
techniques and doctrine � information known to
be a target of Chinese military spying.
Sen. Robert C. Smith, New Hampshire
Republican, said allowing Chinese military officials
to visit the command appears to violate recent
congressional legislation he co-sponsored that
prohibits the Pentagon from helping China develop
war-fighting capabilities.
The law was sponsored jointly by Mr. Smith
and Rep. Tom DeLay, Texas Republican, and
created what the Pentagon calls the Smith-DeLay
guidelines for Chinese military exchanges.
"I am shocked that DoD appears to be
thwarting the law with regard to the Smith/DeLay
U.S.-P.R.C. military-to-military restrictions," Mr.
Smith told The Washington Times in a statement.
Mr. Smith said the visit to the Joint Forces
Command could help China's military learn
sensitive data on U.S. advanced war-fighting
experiments.
"The congressional restrictions specifically
prohibit inappropriate exposure to joint war-fighting
experimentation," Mr. Smith said. "Why should the
Pentagon be seen to be facilitating Beijing in the
pursuit of that goal when, on an almost daily basis,
the [People's Republic of China] is threatening to
attack democratic Taiwan and the United States
itself if we intervened to defend Taiwan?"
Mr. DeLay also said he was troubled by the
visit.
"It's incredible that the Clinton-Gore
administration is acting as tour guides for People's
Liberation Army officials visiting sensitive
American military facilities when only last week it
stopped members of Congress from meeting with
the democratically elected leader of Taiwan when
he was visiting Los Angeles," Mr. DeLay told The
Times.
Three Chinese generals are among the group,
including Gen. Wang, a former ground forces
commander. The academy is China's leading
military think tank for the so-called revolution in
military affairs � modern, high-technology
warfare. It also specializes in developing doctrine
on "information warfare" � attacks on computers
and electronic-based infrastructures.
The Chinese military delegation is part of the
Pentagon's military exchange program with China,
which has come under fire from critics, who say it
will boost China's military.
The visit will continue through Sept. 1. The
itinerary includes meetings at the U.S. Military
Academy at West Point, the Army War College in
Pennsylvania, the Army's Training and Doctrine
Command at Fort Monroe, Va., and the U.S.
Pacific Command in Honolulu. The group will visit
the Pentagon later this week.
Asked if the visit will conform to the
Smith-DeLay guidelines, a defense official said the
Pentagon believes it does.
However, the official said Congress was not
informed about the places where the Academy of
Military Sciences officials will visit. The official
said Congress was notified earlier of the general
outline of the entire military-to-military exchange
program that included "a forecast" of the visit.
The Chinese visit to Norfolk comes during a
current war-fighting experiment called Joint
Deployment Process Improvement, which
simulates a major military deployment.
A Pentagon description of the experiment says
it is designed "to improve joint war-fighting
capabilities."
The restrictions on Chinese military exchanges
specifically prohibit any exchanges that will
improve China's joint war-fighting capabilities, an
area the Chinese military is known to be working
on.
The command also is the location of the Joint
Training Analysis and Simulation Center and the
Joint Experimentation Battle Lab.
Cmdr. Linc Smith, a command spokesman, had
no immediate comment when asked if the Chinese
will be permitted to visit those facilities.
The defense official said the purpose of hosting
the visit is to expose the Chinese to the U.S.
"military education system."
However, other Pentagon officials said China's
Academy of Military Sciences (AMS) is not
involved in military education. It is a military
strategic doctrine and planning center for advanced
war-fighting concepts, including plans for how to
forcibly reunite Taiwan with the mainland.
A Pentagon-sponsored study on China's
military states that the academy produces classified
reports for the Chinese military's strategic planning
process.
"Of all the research institutes, AMS is the most
secretive and least visited by foreigners," the book,
"China Debates the Future Security Environment"
by Michael Pillsbury, states.
"It performs analysis for the Central Military
Commission and the General Staff Department," it
said. Among the known topics of its research are
border security, guidance for "strategies and battles
under high-technology conditions," and the
regularization of the Chinese armed forces.
The academy has no students and no classes,
raising suspicions among some officials that the
current delegation is on an intelligence- and
technology-collection mission.
The academy was modeled on the former
Soviet General Staff Academy. It has cooperated
with the Commission on Science, Technology and
Industry for National Defense, China's main
foreign weapons technology collector.
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