Last update: 10-11-99
Company names, organizations with China ties in bold. My remarks in [brackets]. Many articles from China Reform Monthly
1985
Taiwanese-born physicist, Peter H. Lee, 58, who formerly worked at the
premier U.S. nuclear laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, pleaded
guilty in Los Angeles to passing national defense secrets to Chinese
scientists in 1985. More recently, during April and May of this year, as
an employee of TRW, Inc., where he worked on satellite radar imaging for
locating submarines and tracking their movements, Lee had contact with
Chinese agents during a lecture tour in mainland China.
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm18.htm
1992
A high level Russian military intelligence official and U.S. government
investigators told Insight that Chinese agents have formed a secret
military partnership with Russian military intelligence. The joint
agreement, secretly signed in 1992, calls for intercepting signals from
satellites and breaking into private and government computer systems.
"They share sensitive information with the goal of destroying the United
States," states a former high level Russian intelligence agent.
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm76.htm
1993
In response to an inquiry from Chairman Gerald Solomon, R-NY, the
Clinton administration has admitted that the China Ocean Shipping Co.,
COSCO, was caught shipping 87 pounds of heroin in 1993.
The Clinton Administration says, however, that it has "no information
indicating that Cosco officials were involved in or had knowledge of
this heroin shipment."
www.federal.com
April 1993 Jerry Parks, Clinton security man who worked closely with Vince Foster, found dead.
July 1993 Vince Foster killed in Ft. Marcy Park in Washington DC. Clinton begins gutting military forces. See Ruddy.
1994 Biospheres in the US and minerals in China. (Ray Briem radio show aired 3/27/97.) Clinton locks up minerals in US so businesses must buy from China.
K: I hope they are able to do something. When we had the DESERT PROTECTION ACT going through California in 1994 folks tried to come together and stop it, but we ended up with the DEATH VALLEY INTERNATIONAL BIOSPHERE and 8 MILLION ACRES of desert taken. By the way, I'm doing a story on a CHINA CONNECTION with all this. When we had the Desert Wilderness Act passed and the 8 million acres put into the biosphere -- that shut down the small Mom-&-Pop mines that produced the MINERAL called YTTRIUM. YTTRIUM is used in our STEALTH FIGHTERS, all our MILITARY ELECTRONICS....
R: LET ME GUESS! So the only other WORLD supplier is in CHINA!?
K: You got it! Not only that, but SENATOR DIANE FEINSTEIN's HUSBAND, DICK BLUM cut a deal with the CHINESE to IMPORT Yttrium into this country and Feinstein was one of the Senator's who received money into her campaign from the Chinese. I'm now getting info that there are TWO (2) areas in the San Francisco Bay area -- HUNTER's POINT & I believe it's TREASURE ISLAND -- where the Chinese are going to come in, do the same thing there. That is CATELLUS property which is AGAIN connected to Sen. Diane Feinstein. So I think we have another big story coming up, Ray.
(And more info on how Congress paid the Crown Butte Co. $65 mil to
stop mining gold from a mine north of Yellowstone.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a1001543.htm
1994
In 1994, sophisticated telecommunications technology was transferred to
a U.S.-Chinese joint venture called HUA MEI, in which the Chinese
partner (Galaxy New Technology) is an entity controlled by the Chinese Army.
The US partner was SCM Brooks Telecommunications.
This particular
transfer included fiber-optic communications equipment which is used for
high-speed, secure communications over long distances. Also included in
the package was advanced encryption software.
Worldnet daily
Nov 1994
For example, Motorola wrote the State Department in November 1994,
requesting to export encrypted radios to China. The Motorola letter
clearly notes that Bill Clinton was signing waivers for other American
companies.
Worldnet Daily
1995 John Fialka of the Wall Street Journal reports today that Silicon Graphics, Inc., currently under investigation by the Commerce Department and the U.S. Attorney for selling four supercomputers to Russia's key nuclear weapons design lab at Chelyabinsk-70 (See Foreign Policy Alert No. 33, February 19), "has sold two similar computers to China's Academy of Sciences, which also conducts research into nuclear weapons and missiles." CEO Edward McCracken is a Republican who gave money to the Clinton-Gore campaigns in 1992 and 1996.
Feb 1996 Chinese Long March rocket explodes with a Loral communications satellite on it. The top secret encryption board is missing from the satellite.
Apr 3, 1996 Ron Brown and occupants die in plane crash near Dubrovnik, Croatia. Whitehouse wanted to hire John Huang (president of Lippo Group USA), but Brown didn't want him there. Huang's immediate supervisor was also killed in this plane crash. Brown had a suspicious gunshot wound in the head. When Navy pathologists tried to make this public, superiors suppressed the issue. Air Force orders no safety investigation for the first time in history. Brown was put on the plane at the last minute, for a trade mission to Croatia, and just before he was to give a deposition for an investigation into Huang. Gormley, appearing on BET Tonight, a national black cable network show hosted by Tavis Smiley, Gormley admitted that a photograph and lateral X-ray of Brown's head both of which have been published in the Tribune- Review indeed prove the skull had been penetrated and that Brown's brain was visible. Later, Gormley changes his story to: he described the hole as having "no open communication with the inside of the head," with no brain visible. He said the "punched out" defect had simply been "depressed" but was still visible, covering the brain.
The body was immediately cremated, against the wishes of the family. Wecht and Cogswell agree an autopsy should have been done on Brown. A total of 4 other pathologists say it looked like a gunshot wound and an autopsy should have been performed.
John Huang used his top secret clearance to gain access to classified U.S. military and industrial secrets on encryption technology and its relationship to intelligence gathering and software marketing across the world. He then took the documents across the street, to an office run by Riady partner Stephens' of Little Rock, where he dropped the documents so they could be collected by Chinese intelligence.
July 1996
Clinton signed a waiver for Loral to
export a fully operational, encrypted, satellite
control station to Beijing. According to the
GAO, Clinton authorized the direct export of
an encrypted air-defense communications
system directly to the Chinese Air Force.
Worldnet Daily
Sept 1996 Utah ranchland owners and other participants in the Western States Coalition we attended in Salt Lake City told us they’ve been suspicious about the Clinton Administration’s real motive for locking up 7 billion tons of clean-burning coal worth $1 trillion. Investigations of this action could reveal financial motives for other federal resource lockups such as timber, gold mines and oil fields: Protection, all right - from new competition!
President Clinton, using questionable authority of the Antiquities Act, in September declared almost 2 million acres of southwestern Utah as the Escalante National Monument. That precludes mining of a 3,400-acre mineral lease held by the Dutch-owned firm, Andalex Resources, Inc., which has U.S. offices in Madisonville, Kentucky.
Now, as Clinton’s connections with Indonesia’s $6-billion Lippo Group conglomerate come out, coal begins to figure in. The massive reserve of $1 trillion clean-burning Utah coal could have fueled power plants across the Midwest and Southwest, including a huge coal-fired electrical plant planned for Ensenada, Mexico.
The world’s only known other huge deposit of such high-quality coal now under development is in South Kalimantan, Indonesia. A report in the Energy Economist, Sept. 1994, described a memorandum of understanding between a 1,200-megawatt Chinese coal firm and a consortium of a Lippo Group entity in Hong Kong linked with the Entergy Group of - Little Rock, Arkansas. One of Kalimantan island's big customers will likely be a coal-fired power plant in China's Fujian province. The New York Times has reported that the $2 billion Chinese project is being organized by a bank holding company controlled by Lippo. Entergy also gives a lot of money to Democrats. Since '94, the firm has given $224,000 in soft money alone. And officials went on Commerce Department trade junkets that critics charge were used to raise political cash. Entergy is also helping to build power plants in Indonesia.
National Empowerment TV’s "American Investigator" show will air a
report on this at 8 p.m. EST Dec. 19. The special is called "Quid Pro
Coal." An environmental author, Sarah Foster of Sacramento, Calif., tells
us President Clinton, "with a stroke of his pen, wiped out the only
significant competition to Indonesian coal interests..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a1001508.htm
Nov 11, 1996 Clinton issues executive order 12981 to gut export controls on encryption items and transfer export controls to Commerce Dept, where his appointed man, can do what Clinton bids. See EO 12981 here.
May 27, 1997 A TWENTY-strong flotilla of fishing and pleasure craft organised by Chinese nationalists was intercepted by scores of Japanese patrol boats yesterday near the disputed Diaoyutai Islands in the East China Sea. One Chinese vessel deliberately crashed into a Japanese patrol boat.
The rival vessels played cat and mouse on the high seas in a repeat of the events last year that led to the drowning of a Chinese activist who tried to plant his country's flag on one of the barren islands. No one was hurt during yesterday's engagement. But it was a reminder of the tension arising from conflicting claims to the island chain by China, Taiwan and Japan.
Japan's coastal patrol vessels had ample time to head off the latest
attempt by Hong Kong and Taiwanese activists to land on what Tokyo calls
its Senkaku Islands. They homed in at a point about 12 miles from the
island chain. Two Japanese boats were assigned to each of the vessels,
making further progress by the activists difficult and a landing
impossible.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a1002240.htm
Sep 27, 1997 China's People's Liberation Army has landed on American shores and soon may be partners with the Russian military-intelligence service in a venture to build a rocket-launching pad in the Long Beach harbor. Why Long Beach? Twenty-nine other military bases have closed in California. But the China Ocean Shipping Co., or Cosco, wants the historic U.S. naval base in Long Beach, which scores of America's great warships have called home. The Clinton administration insists this will produce an economic boom, creating 600 jobs and dumping millions into the local economy. Critics claim the deal jeopardizes national security by allowing Beijing to create an espionage operation in the heart of a military high-tech industrial zone. . . . .
The sudden interest in this base by Cosco may have to do more with its next-door neighbor -- Sea Launch, an international venture led by the Russian rocket firm RSC-Energia, which plans to use it to launch rockets carrying satellites into orbit. Insight reported earlier this year that Cosco plans to use the old Long Beach Naval Base for a joint Chinese-Russian intelligence operation as part of a spy partnership formed when the two countries signed a secret agreement in 1992 (see "Why Red China Targets the Clinton White House," May 26). All of this, Insight revealed, has been confirmed by U.S. intelligence sources working closely with the FBI. [Cosco also happens to make inexpensive cribs and toys, which are frequently recalled by the CPSC (www.cpsc.gov).]
The facility is adjacent to the U.S. military base where Cosco plans to build a 145-acre, $200 million terminal and on-dock rail yard. The space company's plan includes converting a 31,000-ton oil rig into a launch pad and a 650-foot ship into a rocket-assembly factory and mission-control center. Sources close to the investigation tell Insight that Cosco is known to work closely with the Chinese navy. Cosco plans to expand its Long Beach base to 275 acres, which would make it the largest proprietary container terminal in the United States. The Chinese goal is to move into the naval base by the summer of 1998 with six large, new container ships, each with a capacity of 5,250 20-foot container units -- making it nearly impossible for U.S. Customs agents to inspect the fleet cargoes.
The White House even granted Cosco adviser Hongye Zheng permission to
attend one of the president's intimate Saturday-morning radio broadcasts
last year. That decision came after Los Angeles businessman Johnny Chung
dumped $391,000 into Democratic Party coffers. Shortly after those
donations, Dorothy Robyn of the president's National Economic
Council
called Long Beach officials to push the deal through.
Insight Mag http://www.insightmag.com/investiga/dnc6.html
Oct 22, 1997
A 1996 CIA analysis concluded that Beijing has engaged in "a program to
'deceive' the U.S. about 'future' illicit sales of nuclear
weapons-related hardware and technology," noting that the action "is
called 'Denial and Deception.'" Echoing a September Congressional
Research Service report, Triplett concludes by observing that "there is
no known case of the Chinese government ever fully complying with any of
its major arms control agreements, whether multilateral or bilateral
with the United States."
CRM
Nov 7, 1997
Clinton oks sale of nuclear technology to China. Clinton says the sale
of U.S. reactor technology to China would cut down on "greenhouse gas"
emissions by reducing Beijing's dependence on coal. Yet according to the
Associated Press, the administration has made no such argument for
nuclear power "as it maps out strategies to curtail carbon monoxide
emissions to meet climate treaty obligations and to reduce smog-causing
chemicals coming from the smokestacks of [American] power plants."
CRM
Nov 10, 1997
Jin Zhu, a retired Chinese military officer who served as assistant Army
attache at the Chinese Embassy in Washington told Defense News, "We want
a framework in which to develop a strategic partnership where the United
States should be responsible for providing modern technology that will
allow China to advance its modernization plans."
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm10.htm
Nov 11, 1997
China has put a satellite monitoring station into operation on the
strategic South Pacific island of Tarawa in Kiribati the Christian
Science Monitor reported.
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm12.htm
The November issue of Jane's Intelligence Review reports Russia's
arms sales and technological transfers to China are increasing
exponentially through official and unofficial channels. The report
follows Russian military scientists that have been hired by China. While
Moscow also sells volumes of weapons to Latin America, Cyprus, Iran and
Syria, China is Russia's principal customer.
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm12.htm
Nov 24, 1997 If Democratic Senators did the bidding of China on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, are they doing the bidding of China in thwarting the investigation by the Independent Counsels as well? Consider the following:
Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) has, for over a year, demanded immense quantities of paperwork from independent counsels who pose threats to President Clinton. The independent counsels have no doubts about what Levin is up to. "This information would go right into the skunk works at the White House to use against us," a senior lawyer in one of the independent counsel offices told columnist Bob Novak last week. "But we are not intimidated."
http://www.federal.com/nov24-97/China
Dec 11, 1997 Information and counter-information technology as primary weapons systems of 21st century warfare has become a principal doctrinal theme promoted by senior commanders of the Chinese military. The Far Eastern Economic Review cites an article by three members of the People's Liberation Army's Academy of Electronic Technology, who write that China has abandoned "traditional concepts of war making...which emphasized the destruction of hardware, attacking cities, seizing territory and inflicting casualties. Now, the struggle to control information is the focus of weapons systems and the countermeasures taken against these systems."
The article, which appeared in China Computer World, adds that new
military heroes will "combine the expertise of electronics experts,
computer experts and information engineers." International defense
experts state that among the principal weapons of information technology
warfare used to paralyze national defense systems will be computer
viruses and so-called 'logic bombs.' [Hence the reason why the Chinese
want more US satellite technology.]
CRM
Dec 12, 1997
Taiwanese-born physicist, Peter H. Lee, 58, who formerly worked at the
premier U.S. nuclear laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, pleaded
guilty in Los Angeles to passing national defense secrets to Chinese
scientists in 1985. More recently, during April and May of this year, as
an employee of TRW, Inc., where he worked on satellite radar imaging for
locating submarines and tracking their movements, Lee had contact with
Chinese agents during a lecture tour in mainland China.
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm18.htm
Dec 15, 1997
The recent U.S. tour by Lt. Gen. Xiong Guangkai, who has overall responsibility for
military intelligence, and "increased exchanges of military personnel and officers at
defense universities in the U.S. and China," the report adds, "are part of efforts to
build a 'constructive strategic partnership' agreed by Mr. Clinton and Mr. Jiang."
CRM
Jan 1998
The State Department's annual human rights report depicted China as
"somewhat more tolerant" toward dissent and that Chinese authorities
have taken other "positive steps on human rights,"even though serious
problems remain. According to the New York Times and Washington Post,
the report's conclusion is in sharp contrast to last year's findings
that, "All public dissent against the communist party and government was
effectively silenced by intimidation, exile, the imposition of prison
terms, administrative detention or house arrest. No dissidents were
known to be active..." [Remember, Sec. of State Madeline Albright was
also very soft on Saddam Hussein (Iraq) weapon inspections. Mark Ritter,
head of the UN inspection team, resigned and said she was actively
thwarting inspections in the summer of 1998.]
CRM
Jan 25, 1998
For the first time, under a contractual agreement between the U.S. NASA
and the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), on January 22, from the
Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the U.S. space shuttle Endeavor carried
Chinese experimental materials into space, reports Beijing Renmin Ribao.
The Chinese experiment was carried in addition to 4,400 pounds of
resupply equipment and water for the Russian Mir space station, as well
as U.S. astronaut Andrew Thomas.
The Chinese project called G-432, included five materials tests in
space, including alloy deep cooling with minimal gravity, semiconductor
treatment, monocrystal growth, crystal moisturization in extended space,
and heat parameter determination.
CRM
Feb 9, 1998
Reports that China will acquire sophisticated U.S.-built advanced air
combat mock instruments (Acmi) has caused the Taiwanese to express alarm
that they would lose air superiority over the Taiwan Straits, reports
the Hong Kong Standard and United Daily News in Taipei.
The Acmi, which uses a remote computer to process data received during
mock training battles, would enhance the quality of China's air force
training program by "leaps and bounds," the Standard report states.
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm41.htm
Feb 12, 1998
Citing speeches by Hillary Clinton, Chinese communist officials were
urged to learn Western propaganda skills to "engage in a public opinion
struggle with our political adversaries," wrote Yu Quanyu in the Beijing
Ideological and Political Work Studies journal, cited in the Far Eastern
Economic Review. Yu, a senior Chinese propagandist, is director of the
press and media institute at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He
highlighted Mrs. Clinton's speeches at the 1995 International Women's
Forum in Beijing, which lasted "15 minutes each time, winning seven or
eight rounds of applause." Yu described Mrs. Clinton's speeches as,
"short, with little or no substance... aimed at merely winning applause
and votes."
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm38.htm
Feb 16, 1998 Chinese scientist award-winning innovations:
Mar 13, 1998. PLA completes nuclear survival study.
The results of a People's Liberation Army-wide study, "Study of
Strategic Missile Combat Position Troop Survival Under Nuclear
Conditions and Development of an Equipment Safeguard System," published
in the Beijing monthly Keji Ribao [Science and Technology] in November
1997, is translated by the U.S. Foreign Broadcast Information Service.
The results of the 5-year study, described by the PLA as a "Logistics
Major Research Task," achieved "state-level" appraisal. Keji Ribao
continues, "The certification committee leader, Chinese Academy of
Engineering academian Wu Dechang, and other experts commented that this
project was a National Defense Special Environmental Systems Engineering
project." It created an "engineering principle within an underground,
sealed strategic missile site... to create an environment in which
almost 200 troops can lead a healthy existence and carry on their
activities for 7 to 15 days... eating, living, storing up and
striking... under nuclear conditions."
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm58.htm
Mar 24, 1998.
Behind the scenes, the PLA rapidly is building its military forces,
creating a blue-water naval fleet to patrol about 320,000 square miles
of water in the South China Sea, supposedly to guard oil in the Spratly
Islands. Meanwhile the PLA operates five nuclear submarines - one of
which reportedly faced off last year with the USS Kitty Hawk near the
Shandong Peninsula.
Insight Mag http://www.insightmag.com/investiga/dnc4.html
Mar 26, 1998
In Beijing, the chief U.S. arms negotiator John Hollum announced that the United
States is generally satisfied that the Chinese have kept their word on nuclear
non-proliferation, reports the Associated Press. Acting-Under Secretary of State
Hollum discussed arms control and other issues with Chinese officials in preparation
for President Clinton's June visit to Beijing.
According to a secret White House cable obtained by the Washington Times, the
Clinton administration is preparing to offer China access to advanced missile
technology if China promises to halt missile exports to Iran and other Third World
countries. After initial denials of the plan, Hollum refused to tell reporters whether the
agreement was near, AP adds.
CRM
Mar 30, 1998. Fortune magazine survey of 1300 business execs rates China the #1 economic and espionage threat in the world to the US.
Apr 1, 1998 At a UNESCO conference on the 21st Century in the Asia-Pacific region, former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser warned that China will eventually replace the United States as the world's major superpower, reports the China News Agency. Speaking in Canberra, Fraser said, "The possiblity of significant problems between China and America is real and in our part of the world... which could trigger a major calamity."
Meeting with reporters, Air Force General Eugene Habiger, commander
of the U.S. Strategic Command, said China is engaged in major
modernization of its nuclear arsenal, including multiple-warhead
missiles capable of hitting almost all parts of the Unites States,
reports Bill Gertz in the Washington Times. The Chinese weapons program
undermines the credibility of the Clinton Administration plan to offer
China aero-space and advanced missile technology.
In addition, a new unclassified report by the U.S. Air Force National
Intelligence Center titled "Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat," states
that Russian and Chinese strategic missiles "continue to pose a threat
to the United States." The Chinese are modernizing their forces," Gen.
Habinger said, "they have deployed an intercontinental ballistic missile
that can reach most of the U.S., except for southern Florida."
CRM
Apr 29, 1998.
A space cooperation agreement with China drawn up by the Clinton
administration to be signed at the June summit with China, permits the
transfer of technology that could be used to enhance China's nuclear
missiles, Bill Gertz reports in the Washington Times. The pact would be
signed by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
and the State Science and Technology Commission of China (SSTCC), a
primary developer of weapons-related technology [and run by the communist Army].
The SSTCC was recently
renamed the Ministry of Science and Technology. [US gives China more
technology, further weakening the US defense against China.]
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm66.htm
May 10, 1998
Intelligence reports identify Chinese operations at Burma bases,
including: Coco Islands; Hainggyi Islands; Kyakkame naval base; Margui
Kyunsu naval base; Tannintharyi naval headquarters; Sittute naval base;
Zadet Gyi naval base; Ayeyarwady naval headquarters. [Editor's note:
China has also constructed sites on Mischief Reef off the Philippines
coast, another on an island near Malaysia, and a satellite tracking
station on the South Pacific island of Tarawa].
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm74.htm
May 11, 1998
In Beijing on April 21, Bernard Schwartz, former CEO of Loral
Corporation and new CEO of Globalstar satellite company, announced that
China Telecom has agreed to invest $37.5 million to become a full
partner with Globalstar, the Beijing Review reports.
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm73.htm
May 13, 1998
For the second straight year, the communist Chinese government backed out on
an agreement to allow Rep. Chris Cox (R-CA) to lead a U.S. congressional
delegation to Tibet, the Los Angeles Times reports. After the 1997
U.S.-China summit in Washington, Chinese leader Jiang Zemin restated
permission for the Tibet visit that he earlier promised House Speaker
Newt Gingrich. But once again, Jiang Zemin postponed the offer, claiming
it would happen too close to President Clinton's visit to China. [China
breaks promises yet again.]
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm73.htm
May 16, 1998
U.S. companies must transfer technology to get nuclear contracts with
China, a Chinese diplomat told American scientists, Agence France Presse
reports. "Countries must be willing to transfer, advanced, mature and
safe technology," said Lieu Zhaodong, the Chinese U.S. embassy
minister-counselor for science and technology at a Nuclear Energy
Institute conference in San Francisco. [China openly admits it needs
technology transfers.]
Agence France Presse adds that nuclear contracts for Westinghouse,
General Electric and Combustion Engineering in China's growing nuclear
power industry will be a major issue at the Clinton-Jiang summit in
June.
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm72.htm
May 17, 1998 The New York Times reports that U.S. defense and intelligence agencies sharply advocated against permitting American-made satellites to be launched aboard Chinese rockets because of technological secrets embedded in commercial satellites. The restrictions were lifted in March 1996, when President Clinton took commercial satellites off the "munitions" list and transferred the control of licensing communications satellites for export from the State Department to the Commerce Department, headed by Ron Brown. During this same period, an executive of a major Chinese beneficiary of Clinton's decision, state-owned China Aerospace, transferred tens of thousands of dollars from Chinese intelligence to Clinton's Democratic Party in the summer of 1996.
The Times adds that the transfer of U.S. satellite technology to China
began when President George Bush waived some Tiananmen Square-related
sanctions in 1990, including launches on China's then-unreliable Long
March missiles. After Clinton took office, business leaders began a
campaign to remove restrictions. In 1995, the debate came to a head when
C. Michael Armstrong, CEO of Hughes Electronics and the new head of
Clinton's export council, urged the administration to permit satellites,
which Hughes produces, to no longer be treated as military goods. A
primary objection from U.S. defense officials was based on the
encryption equipment built into satellites that interprets instructions
from the ground. Similar devices are used to communicate with U.S. spy
satellites. The Pentagon worried that anyone who cracked the code could
take control of the satellites.
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm72.htm
May 21, 1998 AllPolitics.com 5/21/98 CNN-Time
WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, May 21) -- In a powerful rebuke to President Bill Clinton, the House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to block future satellite exports to China, even as the White House insisted Clinton had done nothing wrong in approving an export license for Loral Space and Communications.
May 24, 1998
Five prominent U.S. companies participated in China's first
International Defense Electronics Exhibition in Beijing, anticipating an
easing of the U.S. embargo on selling military technology to China,
reports the Washington Post. Defense experts said products advertised at
exhibits by Lockheed Martin Corp., Hewlett-Packard, Raytheon, Teradyne
Inc. and Motorola - including radars and satellite launch technologies -
all have military applications.
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm76.htm
May 25, 1998
Iran has concluded a secret deal with China to purchase banned chemicals that will
enable the production of large stockpiles of advanced nerve gas, the
London Daily Telegraph reports. As a result, last month China delivered
Iran 500 tons of materials banned under the international Chemical
Weapons Convention (CWC). Afterward, Tehran invited a high level Chinese
military delegation to visit a number of Iran's top-secret military
installations.
The Telegraph reports that the deal was negotiated between Iran's main
defense procurement agency, the Defense Industry Organization, and the
Tianjin branch of China's SinoChem company. Dr. Mejid Tehrani Abbaspur,
chief security advisor for Iran's ayatollahs, coordinated the deal. Dr.
Abbaspur is known to have close ties to the Chinese, who are also making
a "sizable contribution" to Iran's efforts to develop it's own nuclear
weapons arsenal. [China helps Pakistan and Iran. China can use this
pressure/threat of war between Iran/US allies or Pakistan/India (a US
ally) as a bargaining tool.]
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm78.htm
May 25, 1998
A high level Russian military intelligence official and U.S. government
investigators told Insight that Chinese agents have formed a secret
military partnership with Russian military intelligence. The joint
agreement, secretly signed in 1992, calls for intercepting signals from
satellites and breaking into private and government computer systems.
"They share sensitive information with the goal of destroying the United
States," states a former high level Russian intelligence agent.
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm76.htm
May 26, 1998
China is among the countries the FBI has identified as most aggressively
targeting "U.S. propriety economic information and crucial
technologies," USA Today adds. Intelligence experts warn that China
recruits students or visiting scientists, as well as establishes front
companies in the United States to collect information and technologies.
[Insight Mag has an article describing
some front companies in the US.]
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm79.htm
May 27, 1998
U.S. officials have told Martin Lee, whose party received the largest
number of votes in the legislative election, that President Clinton had
no plans to meet with him privately during a stop in Hong Kong en route
to the China summit in June, the Washington Post reports. Instead,
Clinton intends to meet with some democrats and appointed pro-Beijing
legislators in a group, implying they are equal in U.S. eyes.
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm77.htm
May 28, 1998
U.S. House investigators describe an elaborate money-laundering network
between Chinese government-owned companies with links to high officials
in Beijing and Democratic fund raiser Charlie Yah Lin Trie and his
associates that was used to make financial contributions to the
Democratic Party through unwitting "straw" donors, the Washington Post
reports. Joint bank accounts at the International Monetary Fund credit
union in Washington, used to funnel donations between China and the
Democratic National Committee, were jointly owned by Trie, Shao
Zheng-kang, secretary general of the China Everbright Holding Co., and
Su Yongli, a former attache at the Chinese Embassy who subsequently
worked at the IMF. Also sharing the accounts was Ms. Keshi Zhan,
daughter of a senior official in Beijing whose friends include senior
Chinese officials. [Note that Citibank's investment arm, Citicorp
Everbright, has a similar name, and Citibank Everbright has invested
heavily in Nan Fang Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Sanjiu
Enterprises,
linked to the People's Liberation Army of China.]
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm79.htm
May 29, 1998 After Pakistan conducted five nuclear test blasts, U.S. intelligence officials and defense experts claim that China provided Pakistan with key expertise and equipment to develop its nuclear weapons and missile programs, reports the Washington Times. "China has had a major hand in what happened today," said former CIA director James Woolsey. U.S. government policy of relaxing [dual-use] exports to China also had "some hand in giving the Indians an excuse to test," he said. U.S. analyst William Triplett, added, "The entire Pakistani weapons program should be stamped 'Made in China.'"
Announcing the successful tests, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif stated that China was a loyal ally despite past U.S. sanctions on both Pakistan and China aimed at curbing missile and strategic material transfers. "Pakistan-China friendship has made it through all tests," he said. "We are very proud of our neighbor China for all its help."
Writing in the New York Times, Indian columnist Pem Shankar Jha states
that India conducted its nuclear tests after Pakistan changed the
strategic equation on the subcontinent by launching the
intermediate-range Ghauri ballistic missile on April 6. The missile,
which the Indian government believes is a product of Chinese technology,
is named after a 12th Century Muslim conqueror of northern India.
Subsequent statements by Pakistani leaders stated that they could now
hit 26 Indian cities with strategic weapons. In addition, Indian
intelligence believes that Chinese scientists were helping Pakistan to
make nuclear weapons small enough to mount on a warhead. "What tipped
India over the brink," Jha states, "was ... intent on constructive
engagement with China and Pakistan, the U.S. has simply disregarded
India's fears."
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm78.htm
May 29, 1998 Russian ocean-going launch pad to set sail for near Hawaii. The gray steel structure has been fitted out with an entire cosmodrome complex below decks and gantries from which rockets will blast off carrying satellites into space from optimally positioned mooring sites off Hawaii as early as October. [Note that the Russian's now have close ties with China.]
Boeing has a 40 percent stake in the Sea Launch Company behind the $2
billion venture set up in 1995. Russian space manufacturer Energiya has
25 percent, Norway's Kvaerner Maritime Company 20 percent and Ukrainian
space firm KB Yuzhnoye/PO Yuzhmash 15 percent.
Source: CNN http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9805/27/space_sealaunch.reut/index.html
Jun 4, 1998 Chairman Gilman, of the House International Relations committee, comments on China selling body parts.
In 1996, Amnesty International reported what it described as a close liaison between Chinese courts, health departments and hospitals over the distribution of transplant organs. The report stated that "the secrecy surrounding the process, the fact that organ transplantation represents a source of income for hospitals, and the reported practice of giving gifts to officials involved in the execution of prisoners, all suggests that, in some cases, the imposition and timing of the death penalty may be influenced by the need for organs for transplantation." Amnesty International went on to state that the Chinese legal system provides no protection against such abuse, while noting that 90 percent of all organs transplanted in China are from executed prisoners. On October 15th, 1997, ABC News aired an investigative report titled "Blood Money." A hidden camera showed a Chinese doctor and his wife accepting a down payment of $30,000 for a kidney from a Chinese prisoner who had been executed. On February 20, 1998, the FBI arrested two other Chinese citizens in New York on charges of conspiracy to sell organs, including kidneys, corneas, livers, skin, pancreases and lungs for transplant.
According to the report, the involvement of Chinese doctors and other
medical personnel in the process of removing executed prisoners' organs
is extensive. Before the executions, medical workers perform blood tests
to determine the prisoner's health and suitability as an organ donor.
Medical personnel are at the place of execution, so that, at the moment
of death, they can immediately remove the organs and rush them to the
hospital for transplantation.
http://www.house.gov/international_relations/press/5pr6498.htm
Amnesty International China reports
Jun 13, 1998 Chinese government publicly scorned a US Congress resolution urging China to renounce the use of force against Taiwan, stating that Beijing has the right to attack the island, one of Asia's most successful democracies, the Hong Kong Standard reports.
China's ambassador to the United States, Li Zhaoxing, stated that
congressional criticism of China is jeopardizing $750 billion in
contracts that American businesses could bid on to build highways and
other infrastructure projects, the Scripps Howard News Service reports.
Charles Lewis, vice-president of the National [US] Association of
Manufacturers accused the Congress of "China bashing", saying, "They
could not have picked a worse time to overturn the apple cart." Lewis,
while not commenting on the Chinese missile and election finance
scandal, added that US business is "redoubling" its effort to assure
Congress extends Most Favored Nation Trade status for imports from
China. [US business seems to want to transfer technology to give the
Chi-coms more of an edge in favor of the all-powerful dollar, and in the
process make the US relatively weaker vs. China.]
China Reform Monitor http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm85.htm
Jun 17, 1998
In a speech at Harvard University, Liu Ji, a top advisor to Chinese
leader Jiang Jemin, stated to the US that to protect Communist Party
rule, China could easily turn hostile, Reuters reports. "China, out of
ideological and moral obligations, can easily become an anti-American
force," said Liu, vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Social
Scientists, the government's premier think-thank. "If you really want to
make China an enemy, you will find that China is not only an unbeatable
enemy, it is also an unreasonable enemy," he warned. "As the Cold War
victor, the United States is seeking to promote American-style
democracy, using ideology as a basic diplomatic lever, and could follow
the same path to ruin as the former Soviet Union... Because of
sensitivity to some international anti-China and anti-communist adverse
currents and hegemonistic politics, (China) can easily be aroused to
parochial nationalism and make irrational mistakes."
CRM http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm90.htm
Jun 19, 1998. Russia, desparate for money, providing China subs.
A Russian shipyard completed building a new Kilo-class submarine that
will be delivered to China at the end of this year, Agence France Presse
reports. The advanced diesel-engine submarine can carry 18 torpedoes and
costs around $300 million.
China Reform Monitor http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm90.htm
Jun 21, 1998.
Preparing to depart for China, President Clinton stated that he supports
giving China permanent Most Favored Nation trade status rather than
Congress annually reviewing Beijing's trade privileges, the Washington
Post reports. "I don't think this debate every year serves a
particularly useful purpose," Clinton said, fully reversing the vows he
made while running for president in 1992, when he linked China's trade
status to human rights. [Clinton gets closer with the Chinese for
personal gain and sells out US security in the process.]
China Reform Monitor http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm86.htm
Jun 24, 1998.
Diplomatic sources in Beijing say that China has fixed on a strategy of
"Pakistan and Iran for Taiwan," for the Clinton-Jiang summit in Beijing,
the South China Morning Post reports. Beijing is hoping that Bill
Clinton will make a concession on US policy on (defensive) arms sales to
Taiwan in exchange for China promising to scale-down proliferation and
export of military know-how to Iran and Pakistan. [Please! China would
never keep a promise that is not in its best interest.]
China Reform
Monitor http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm90.htm
Jun 25, 1998
The Clinton-Jiang summit in Beijing will increase cooperation between
the US and Chinese militaries, the Wall Street Journal reports. One
summit agreement will formalize Chinese military observers at US-allied
"Rimpac 98" naval exercises near Hawaii and the "Co-operative Coop
Thunder" air force exercise in Alaska this July. "The invitation is a
gesture designed to increase the transparency of our militaries," the
Pentagon says. [Chi-coms gather more intel on US troops and technology.]
China Reform
Monitor http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm90.htm
Jul 2, 1998
Defense spending, when adjusted for inflation, has dropped for 14
consecutive years, to $270 billion in fiscal 1999 year that begins Oct.
1.
Free Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/t1002511.htm
Jul 18, 1998
The Pentagon's elite Special Forces soldiers will train PLA troops under
a plan being considered by Washington.
The possibility was confirmed by Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon after
US Special Operations chief General Peter Schoomaker said he hoped to
see such links.
At the same time, Mr Bacon endorsed a Congress-mandated panel's
conclusion that China was a major exporter of ballistic missile
technology to Iran, branded by Washington as the world's biggest state
sponsor of "terrorism", and other states. "It's true, and it's
unfortunate," he said.
The panel, chaired by former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, reported
that China posed a threat to US national security "as a significant
proliferator of ballistic missiles, weapons of mass destruction and
enabling technologies".
Worldnet Daily
Jul 20, 1998
Gore travels to Russia for 3 days for an unusually high profile tour.
USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/hear.htm
Jul 24, 1998
The House voted 264-166 not to revoke Mr
Clinton's decision to continue offering China the same low tariffs
enjoyed by nearly all of America's trading partners.
SCMP
Jul 22, 1998
House International Committee news, Chairmain Gilman comments on MFN status for China.
"Their record to date is clear: Beijing continues to bar access to its markets; violates trade agreements; proliferates weapons of mass destruction, ballistic missiles and enabling technologies; and represses fundamental human rights all while enjoying unimpeded access to the markets of our great nation. Beijing
imposes a 23 percent tariff on American goods shipped to China, while Chinese products
entering our market enjoy a preferential four percent tariff under MFN. Thanks to the trade advantage conferred by MFN, China sends 33 percent of its exports to
our Nation, but only two percent of ours go to China. Continual renewal of MFN status, which,
by the way, was never given to the Soviet Union, gives China no incentive to open its markets
to American goods or to make its economy more competitive.
http://www.house.gov/international_relations/press/5pr72298.htm
Jul 28, 1998
BEIJING: In its first public defense policy review in three years, China
renewed a threat on Monday to retake Taiwan by force, criticized nuclear
tests by India and Pakistan and hinted that the United States is a
potential menace to security.
The state council, or cabinet, in issuing the review on Monday
reiterated that China wants a stable world order to pursue its primary
goal of economic development. It vowed never to attack or invade unless
first attacked. A report published by China noted that last year's defense budget (1997) of
81.3 billion ($ 9.8 billion) amounted to less than 4 percent of what the
U.S. spends. Foreign military analysts have for years disputed the
published figure as ridiculously low given the PLA's sustained foreign
buying spree and missile-development program. Taiwan's defense ministry
noted in March that China was spending at least three times the
acknowledged amount on defense.
http://www.
timesofindia.com/today/28worl1.htm
Sep 1998
Clinton to visit Moscow for summit. Jiang Zemin, president of PRC, will
visit Moscow Sep 3-6.
SCMP
Sep 10, 1998
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Taiwanese can receive kidneys taken from executed
criminals in China through an agency in southern Taiwan, a newspaper
reported Wednesday. The newspaper reported that an agent it identified
only by his surname, Lu, said Fuzhou General Hospital in the Chinese
coastal province of Fujian, had a contract with a local court to take
kidneys from executed criminals.
Washington Post
Sep 18, 1998
WAN JUN (ada John Huang): Chairman of the China International Trust and Investment, and
COSCO
heads the companies that were implicated in a scheme to smuggle 2,000
illegal Chinese-made weapons into Oakland CA. (Norinco and Poly
Technologies.
http://www.oicu2.com/afc/china.html
Sep 21, 1998
An entire class of Chinese officers from the Chinese People's Liberation
Army Air Force (PLAAF) Air War College observed a series of U.S. Air
Force air warfare exercises in Alaska, called "Cooperative Cape
Thunder," reports Aviation Week. The exercises exposed U.S. air war
vulnerabilities to enemy radar planes and computer warfare attacks. The
U.S. planes suffered "huge casualties,"and in some instances were
completely blind in simulated combat to aggressor forces using
Electronic Support Measures (ESM).
http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm125.htm
Oct 12, 1998 The Far Eastern Economic Review reports that a report to be released by the U.S. House Committee investigating illegal donations to the Democratic Party during the 1995-1996 election campaign identifies Ted Sioeng, a key figure in the scandal, as a Chinese agent in a bid to influence the American elections. Sioeng, who donated $400,000 through his family and business partners to the Democratic National Committee, held several private meetings with Chinese President Jiang Zemin between 1993 and 1995.
In addition, Timmerman found that U.S. specialty steel parts and
aerospace alloys sold to CATIC have been sent directly to a military
aircraft plant in Xian, China. In addition, sensitive U.S. Global
Positioning Satellite [GPS] navigation systems purchased in California
are shipped by CATIC to their aerospace plant in Beijing. American
defense intelligence analysts have concluded that the Chinese are
successfully integrating U.S. GPS systems into cruise missiles,
ballistic missiles and a new generation of military jets - some of which
are sent to Iran. Yet, the Clinton Administration has lifted all
licensing requirements for the sale of GPS systems to China.
http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm130.htm
Oct 31, 1998
Expatriate Chinese missile scientist Huan Di, living in the United
States and teaching at Stanford University since 1989, has been
imprisoned in China for ten months on charges of espionage, the
Associated Press reports. U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
called for his release, requesting the U.S. Embassy in Beijing to be
"very involved" in the case. State Department spokesman James Foley
stated, "We do not know the exact basis of the Chinese Government's
charges against him, and we are seeking further information." Stanford
officials said the Hua, 62, has been unable to get treatment for cancer
since he was arrested on January 5 for allegedly "leaking state
secrets." He had returned to China for the first time since 1989 because
he was assured by authorities that he could do so safely. [China lied, and
said he could return safely, then he returned to China, and they arrested him.]
http://www.afpc.org/crm/crm134.htm
Dec 13, 1998 Johnny Chung got 5 years probation, no prison for his involvement in the 1996 fund-raising scandal. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1998-12/15/028r-121598-idx.html
5-6-99 The Justice Department is setting up a special task force to investigate the FBI's probe of a Los Alamos computer scientist suspected of passing nuclear weapons secrets to China. A senior Justice Department official told The Washington Times that Attorney General Janet Reno and Deputy Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. will soon appoint a panel headed by a federal prosecutor and supported by FBI agents. An announcement could come as early as the end of this week, the official said. "This will be a top-to-bottom review," the official said. "As bad as this reflects on the department and the bureau, the task force is just trying to get the facts of 'who shot John.' " The creation of the task force is another sign the Clinton administration did not act promptly in the Chinese spying affair. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said last week that his agency also mishandled the compromise of nuclear warhead secrets. Senate Judicary Comm'tee Chairman Mr. Orrin Hatch said at the time the department turned down the FBI request, Mr. Lee was under investigation because of a phone call he made to another Taiwanese-born scientist, Peter Lee, who was fired from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California after an investigation of China's theft of neutron bomb secrets. Failures in the spy case include: - Mr. Lee had continued access to classified information at Los Alamos after he came under suspicion of spying from October 1997 until late 1998. - A later polygraph test of Mr. Lee, administered by the FBI, showed that the scientist gave misleading and deceptive answers to questions about passing information to China. Neither polygraph test was coordinated with espionage prosecutors in government. - The Justice Department Office of Intelligence Policy and Review rejected an FBI request to wiretap Mr. Lee's telephone. The request was turned down by a political appointee, Frances Fragos Townsend, who is the department's counsel for intelligence policy. The task force will try to find out why the request was denied. The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has never turned down a request for electronic surveillance in a spy case. - In separate hearings before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Los Alamos Director John Browne testified that as early as 1996, he wanted to examine Mr. Lee's computers but was warned off by Justice Department lawyers who feared the search would taint information for use in court. http://www.washtimes.com/news/news1.html 5-7-99 It now turns out that in November 1998, a secret report distributed to senior Clinton administration officials --including National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, Attorney General Janet Reno and Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Bill Richardson -- informed them that between October 1997 and June 1998 there were more than 300 foreign attacks on DOE's unclassified computer systems. Noting that "China represents an acute intelligence threat to DOE," the secret report stated that instances in which foreign countries successfully penetrated DOE's unclassified computer system resulted in "complete access and total control to create, view, modify or execute any and all information stored on the system," the New York Times reported last Sunday. It was not until April 1999, nearly a half year after the secret report was issued in November, that Mr. Richardson shut down the DOE's classified computer system in order to improve its security. Unfortunately, this is only the latest in a string of intelligence disasters. The administration first learned in early 1995 that China may have stolen the United States' most sensitive nuclear secrets. U.S. nuclear-weapons experts at DOE detected that China was testing a smaller, more powerful nuclear warhead that was very similar to the W-88, the state-of-the-art warhead now deployed on U.S. submarine-launched ballistic missiles. In late 1995, DOE investigators informed the FBI. By February 1996, DOE counterintelligence officers and the FBI identified Mr. Lee, a computer scientist in DOE's Los Alamos nuclear-weapons laboratory, as a primary suspect who "stuck out like a sore thumb." DOE briefed the CIA in early 1996. Stunned by the revelations flowing from DOE briefers' charts and drawings, Paul Redmond, the CIA's chief spy hunter, concluded that China's nuclear espionage would prove to be "just as bad as the Rosenbergs" and "far more damaging to the national security than Aldrich Ames" -- an assessment the White House strenuously rejected. Miss Reno's Justice Department did its part. From October 1996, when the campaign-finance scandal erupted, to the present, Miss Reno has repeatedly refused to seek the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate the Chinese-Democratic Party money connection. Meanwhile, other senior Justice officials repeatedly refused in 1997 to seek a court-approved wiretap that would have allowed the FBI to examine Mr. Lee's office computer. DOE did its part as well. Without the wiretap, the FBI was unable to pursue aggressively its investigation of Mr. Lee. In April 1997, with its investigation stalled, the FBI advised DOE to remove Mr. Lee from his sensitive position. Instead, DOE inexplicably placed Mr. Lee in charge of updating the computerized archive of nuclear secrets. As the New York Times recently reported, Mr. Lee had previously downloaded more than a thousand computer files from Los Alamos' classified computer system into its unclassified computer system. Most of this downloading, which includes virtually all the nuclear secrets of the U.S. arsenal, occurred in 1994 and 1995. Had Miss Reno's Justice Department obtained the court-approved wiretap in early 1997, the FBI would have learned about Mr. Lee's unauthorized downloading two years earlier. Meanwhile, DOE refused for several years to reinstate the FBI-recommended background checks for visitors to its weapons labs, and the counterintelligence officer who uncovered the espionage has testified before Congress that an acting DOE secretary prevented him from briefing Congress about the Chinese spying. Washington Times, http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3732ac8672cd.htm
Companies with China ties