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THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT IS NOT SUPPORTING THE TALIBAN WITH TROOPS
RECENT STORIES INTENDED TO FRIGHTEN THE RIGHT ARE DISINFORMATION AND
PROPAGANDA
by
Michael C. Ruppert
[� Copyright 2001, Michael C. Ruppert and From The Wilderness Publications,
www.copvcia.com. All Rights Reserved. May Be Copied Or Distributed for
Non-Profit Purposes Only]
FTW, 10/24/01 1200 PDT � Recent news stories circulating widely on the
Internet and targeted at conservative U.S. interest groups, indicating that
the Government of China (GOC) is actively supporting the Taliban and
providing troops to assist Taliban and al�Queda fighters are false. China,
which gained admittance to the World Trade Organization just two days after
the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, is a
full partner in globalization and has an essential and vested interest in
seeing US war and economic plans succeed. Further, US economic influence in
China, the world�s largest global market, is currently controlling political
and military events as China faces a massive energy crisis that only US
companies can resolve.
An analysis of China�s economic relations with the United States reveals the
overriding reasons for a Chinese/US alliance and gives the lie to recent
stories published by the Debka news organization which are designed to
instill fear in the US public and divert attention away from US government
covert economic, drug smuggling and military operations in the region.
As reprinted by the conservative World Net Daily on October 22 the Debka
Intelligence Files (www.debka.com) published a story entitled �Chinese
fighters killed in U.S. strikes.� That story reported that, �Military
sources in Dushnabe and Bishbeck, capitals of Tajikistan respectively,
report at least 15 Chinese fighting men on the side of the Taliban, were
killed in last week�s U.S. bombing over Kandahar��
The story continues to state that Osama bin Laden aide Basir al Masri � now
reportedly deceased � enjoyed the protection of at least 10 Chinese
bodyguards, some of whom were reportedly killed in recent U.S. air attacks.
The Debka report, using selected quotes from British and American papers,
including the Washington Post � which has long-documented affiliations with
the Central Intelligence Agency - refers to prior stories indicating that
the GOC has established intelligence and funding relationships with the
Taliban in recent years. It quotes one Washington Post story as stating that
Beijing and the Taliban signed a memorandum of understanding on September 11
for greater economic and military cooperation.
These relationships fail to take into account a gift of $43 million to the
Taliban from Secretary of State Colin Powell last May, or the fact that,
through the Pakistani intelligence service, the ISI, the CIA has continually
provided aid to the Taliban virtually up until the moment of the September
11 attacks.
The implication of this story, especially when combined with previous Debka
stories claiming massive Chinese troop deployments in and around
Afghanistan, is that the United States is potentially facing a direct
military confrontation with China.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
In spite of the fact that one additional October 22 story from the
Hindustani Times states that �Taliban Commander-in-Chief Jalaluddin Haqquani
has claimed that the militia was �in touch� with China, which was assisting
in the war against the U.S,� there remains no credible evidence of such
Chinese involvement. In fact, a simple examination of the economic
interdependence of the U.S. and China makes such conclusions totally
unbelievable.
U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE
With more than three billion citizens China represents the world�s largest
untapped marketplace, both for oil and for consumer goods. Not only is the
economic future of major U.S. corporations dependent upon continued access
to Chinese markets, the Chinese economy � as demonstrated by its relentless
15-year effort to gain access to WTO � is as dependent upon U.S. investment
and economic assistance. China was swiftly admitted to the WTO on September
13.
There�s an old saying that in a ham and eggs breakfast, the chicken is
involved but the pig is committed. Many major U.S. corporations are totally
committed to ongoing business relations with China and the Chinese
government. This was demonstrated by China�s hosting of the recent APEC
conference in Shanghai. China is in dire need of continued investment and
operations from U.S. based companies. This was a matter of pre-eminent
concern to George W. Bush during the conference and is also reflective of
the Bush family�s long-standing business interests in China.
According to the U.S-China Business Council (USCBC) (www.uschina.org), new
foreign direct investment in China in 2000 alone equaled some $62.66 billion
US. This represented a 50.8% increase over 1999. Major U.S. corporations
with active investments in China include: Federal Express, Honeywell,
Corning, Ford, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Halliburton, AIG, Nortel, Microsoft, FMC,
Cargill, Xerox (which, according to the Wall Street Journal, is moving it
manufacturing operations to China), Chubb and Emerson Electric.
In the first quarter of 2001 alone, according to the USCBC, selected US
exports to China rose by the following percentages: power generation
equipment (+48%); electrical machinery & equipment (+17.3%); air and
spacecraft (+113.7%); iron and steel (+88.5%). Total U.S. trade with China
is expected to top $107 billion in 2001.
American International Group (AIG), which manages the second largest pool of
investment capital in the world, has approximately 40% of its business
operations centered in or around China. AIG began its history as an American
owned Chinese insurance company, the C.V. Starr Company. (See FTW, Vol. IN,
No. 5 � August 14, 2001)
Outgoing USCBC President Robert Knapp, in text prepared, apparently within
hours of the WTC attacks and China�s admission to the WTO, issued a press
release stating, ��The WTO negotiations have consumed fifteen years,�� Knapp
pointed out, � but they are now crowned with success� Never has the need for
cooperation between the United States and China, both bilaterally and in the
multilateral environment, been clearer. The two countries must now work
together, intensely and in good faith, to ensure that both nations realize
the maximum benefits from China�s WTO participation.��
OIL
Nowhere is China�s dependence upon the United States more clearly
demonstrated than its need for oil and gas to continue its economic
expansion. As discussed � with full sourcing - in the Oct. 15 issue of From
The Wilderness (FTW), the Unocal Corporation has resumed long-standing plans
for the construction of a trans-Afghani pipeline system to transport oil and
gas from the Central Asian republics to the Pakistani coast for sale to
China and Japan. This 1500-mile pipeline from the oil and gas-rich regions
of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan is the only feasible
way to transport oil and gas to China, which is heavily dependent upon
imported oil and gas.
China cannot build a pipeline across Asia for two reasons.
First, the construction of a nearly 4,000-mile pipeline across the northern
end of the Himalayas and through the mountains regions of Central China
would take decades and is beyond China�s technical abilities. The
construction expertise of companies like Halliburton � who�s CEO until 2000
was Dick Cheney � is essential.
Second, China has its own Muslim insurgency in the Uighur region. Islamic
fundamentalists there have been trained by the Taliban and are fighting
their own campaign for an independent Islamic state. This region is in the
Himalayas; just bordering the Central Asian republics and any construction
undertaken there would, of necessity, demand a two-front battle against
terrorists bent on destroying the pipeline and the forbidding terrain as
well.
As reported in the Oct. 15 issue of FTW, �Although Unocal ostensibly
abandoned the project the next year, things have changed since September
11th. An October 10 story from the Pakistani newspaper, The Frontier Post,
opened with: �The US ambassador to Pakistan, Wendy Chamberlain, paid a
courtesy call on the Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources,
Usman Aminuddin here Tuesday and discussed with him matters pertaining to
Pak-US cooperation in the oil and gas sector.�
�In a later paragraph the story said, �Usman Aminuddin also briefed the
Ambassador on the proposed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan gas pipeline
project and said that this project opens up new avenues of multi-dimensional
regional cooperation particularly in view of the recent geo-political
developments in the region.�
A REASONABLE EXPLANATION
There may be a few ethnic Chinese fighting with the Taliban but they are
most certainly Uighur Muslims and not PLA Chinese troops. Remember that
during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s Americans formed volunteer
fighting units that fought on both sides of that conflict. That did not mean
that the U.S. government had endorsed either side.
The Debka reports are dubious and highly suspect as to their intent.
WorldNet Daily, which has a well-deserved reputation for solid journalistic
standards, should be careful of risking its credibility by republishing such
outrageous and unfounded stories. Such stories can and have had the effect
of distracting attention from important debate and increasing fear levels in
selected groups. And as fear increases, logical, relevant and essential
analysis goes out the window.
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