Red China

The 'Beijing Consensus' Won't Last
The Party is just pioneering a new way to fail.

Last month, Beijing began blocking access in China to a German government-funded Web site devoted to the Berlin Wall. The collapse of European communism last century, now symbolized by the breaching of that barrier 20 years ago today, apparently makes Chinese leaders uncomfortable. This obsessive censorship suggests China may be fragile, not the incipient superpower it appears to be. And if the modern Chinese state is in fact weak, is communism viable anywhere?

U.S. sells weapons to Taiwan, angering China

The Obama administration announced the sale Friday of $6 billion worth of Patriot anti-missile systems, helicopters, mine-sweeping ships and communications equipment to Taiwan in a long-expected move that sparked an angry protest from China.

The sale, formally announced by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, is expected to prompt China to slow or even break military relations with the United States and cancel a visit by President Hu Jintao to Washington in April. Chinese officials have threatened other actions, including sanctions on the U.S. companies supplying the equipment or on businesses in the districts of congressional lawmakers known to be backers of Taiwan.

China says US arms sales to Taiwan could threaten wider relations

Beijing — A planned American arms sale to Taiwan may damage US-Chinese relations and disrupt efforts to achieve unity on nuclear stand-offs with Iran and North Korea, official sources in Beijing indicated yesterday.

China accuses US of online warfare in Iran
Iran election unrest an example of US 'naked political scheming' behind free speech facade, says Communist party editorial

Useful Idiots
Paying homage to the People's Republic in New York City.

Ever since the triumph of China's communist revolution--sixty years ago yesterday--left-leaning intellectuals have convinced themselves of cheerful falsehoods about the regime. Visitors to China, even during the heyday of Mao Tse-tung's ruinous economic policies, saw a "uniquely creative" and "profoundly ethical" political system. "Life in China today," claimed Simone de Beauvoir, "is exceptionally pleasant." English clergyman Hewlett Johnson perceived in Mao "an obvious preoccupation with the needs of others."

Rich China, Poor Peasants
A country where wealth trickles up.

China recently announced its GDP grew by more than 7.1% in the first half of this year, putting the country on course to displace Japan as the world's second-largest economy by year's end. But it's not time to break out the maotai just yet. Peasants and migrant workers, who compose more than 65% of China's 1.3 billion people, aren't benefiting much from this growth.

Trading Up in the Taiwan Strait
Washington must boost economic ties with Taipei.

In the year and a half since President Ma Ying-jeou took office in Taipei, the world has witnessed an unprecedented rapprochement between China and Taiwan. The two sides have hosted visits of party officials, established direct charter flights across the Taiwan Strait, allowed for greater Chinese investment in Taiwan, and expanded the scope for Chinese tourism on the island. These and other moves add up to a major relaxation of tension, in sharp contrast to the previous eight years of cross-Strait relations.

Zhao Ziyang's Revenge
He tells his story on Tiananmen and democracy in China.

As the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre approaches, that history remains as relevant to China's future as ever. The soon-to-be-released memoirs of the late Zhao Ziyang, who was secretary general of the Communist Party during the student protests, show why.

Zhao was a champion of economic liberalization and famous among China's farmers for his agricultural reforms. In the spring of 1989, he agreed with student demands for transparency, less corruption and a freer press. As Bao Pu explains on the previous page, Zhao's political opponents ultimately outmaneuvered him, resulting in Zhao's ouster from the Party, the tragic events of June 4, 1989 and his 16-year house arrest. He died in 2005.

The Empire of Lies
The twenty-first century will not belong to China.

The Western press is full of stories these days on China’s arrival as a superpower, some even heralding, or warning, that the future may belong to her. Western political and business delegations stream into Beijing, confident of China’s economy, which continues to grow rapidly. Investment pours in. Crowning China’s new status, Beijing will host the 2008 Summer Olympics.

But China’s success is, at least in part, a mirage. True, 200 million of her subjects, fortunate to be working for an expanding global market, increasingly enjoy a middle-class standard of living. The remaining 1 billion, however, remain among the poorest and most exploited people in the world, lacking even minimal rights and public services. Popular discontent simmers, especially in the countryside, where it often flares into violent confrontation with Communist Party authorities. China’s economic “miracle” is rotting from within.

China, Friend or Foe?

A cave complex blasted out of the rocky coastline on China's southern island province of Hainan is home to one of the newest and potentially most lethal weapons in Beijing's arsenal: a home-grown submarine designed to launch nuclear-armed ballistic missiles.

Obama: Ignoring China's Military Buildup

The Obama administration came into office looking to “deepen the dialogue” with the People's Republic of China (PRC). On her visit to Beijing in late February, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said “it is essential that the United States and China have a positive, cooperative relationship. Both of us are seeking ways to deepen and broaden that relationship.” In reality, she narrowed the discussion by pushing to the margin areas of disagreement. She downplayed human rights abuses in China and glossed over U.S.-PRC rivalries in hot spots like North Korea and Iran. Her main concern was to reassure Beijing that its large investments in U.S. government securities were safe and to urge that capital keep flowing from the Chinese trade surplus to American budget deficits.

The Great Leap Backward?

Summary: China's environmental woes are mounting, and the country is fast becoming one of the leading polluters in the world. The situation continues to deteriorate because even when Beijing sets ambitious targets to protect the environment, local officials generally ignore them, preferring to concentrate on further advancing economic growth. Really improving the environment in China will require revolutionary bottom-up political and economic reforms.

Beijing Bust?

Chinese ships 'harass' US vessel

Five Chinese ships have manoeuvred dangerously close to an unarmed US navy surveillance vessel in the South China Sea, the US government says.

A year without 'Made in China'

BATON ROUGE, LA. – Last year, two days after Christmas, we kicked China out of the house. Not the country obviously, but bits of plastic, metal, and wood stamped with the words "Made in China." We kept what we already had, but stopped bringing any more in.

China's £4bn drive to buy Africa's mineral wealth

Lubumbashi -- China's modern-day "Scramble for Africa" to buy up the continent's mineral wealth enters a new phase this week.

Full scale work by the Chinese begins to rebuild 2,050 miles of roads in the Democratic Republic of Congo, left to rot in the rainforest after the Belgian colonialists pulled out 48 years ago and further shattered by seven years of war.

The vast project, which will triple Congo's current paved road network, is part of China's largest investment in Africa, a £4.5 billion infrastructure-for-minerals deal signed in January.

China bans negative reporting ahead of party congress

Beijing -- China has ordered its media to report only positive news and imprisoned a pro-democracy dissident amid a clampdown on dissent ahead of the most important meeting of the Communist party in five years.

U.S. Dominance in Space Challenged by China's Test

BEIJING, Jan. 19 — China's apparent success in destroying one of its own orbiting satellites with a ballistic missile signals that it intends to contest American military supremacy in space, a realm many here consider increasingly crucial to national security.

Bitterness in Beijing over North Korea's betrayal may mean war

THE prospects for continued peace in north Asia depend on the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear status, which resume in Beijing today after 15 stormy political months on the Korean peninsula.

The dynamics have shifted dramatically since the last talks. When Pyongyang tested its first nuclear bomb two months ago, defying pleas from Beijing, it alienated itself from its only ally.

The extent of that alienation has been revealed in essays by China's leading strategic thinkers. The bitter sense of betrayal felt in China about its communist neighbour, on whose behalf 360,000 soldiers, mainly volunteers, died during the Korean war 53 years ago, sets the tone for the extraordinarily frank essays in China Security.

Hong Kong Wrong
What would Cowperthwaite say?

It had to happen. Hong Kong's policy of "positive noninterventionism" was too good to last. It went against all the instincts of government officials, paid to spend other people's money and meddle in other people's affairs. That's why it was sadly unsurprising to see Hong Kong's current leader, Donald Tsang, last month declare the death of the policy on which the territory's prosperity was built.

Beyond the Rim
We ignore China's growing military and economic power at our peril.

From the beach at Santa Monica on a clear day in fall, with 3,000 miles of this country invisible at one's back, the Pacific horizon is a precisely etched line empty of event and set in alluring color. But beyond the rim lie two things now tightly interwoven: China, and the destiny of the United States.

Confirmed: China's 'Unrestricted Warfare'

The congressionally mandated U.S.-China Security Review Commission has indicated that the Chinese military is attempting to hack into computer networks at the U.S. Defense Department as part of its "unrestricted warfare" - confirming earlier reports from NewsMax.

Japan's Alarm Bells

The rest of the world may not have taken much notice -- and Europe just flirted with lifting an arms embargo on Beijing -- but Japan is becoming more alarmed that China's rise poses a security risk to Asia and the world. As a result of this and other concerns, Japan is rapidly moving to strengthen its ties with the U.S. across the board.

Unhelpful China

In contrast to its rejection of traditional U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, the Bush administration has largely embraced the traditional approach to the People's Republic of China, the one it inherited from its predecessors. This policy, known as "engagement," is predicated on the belief that as Beijing grows more confident and influential on the global stage, it will act in ways that advance common Sino-American interests. But as China's behavior on key U.S. policies makes clear, while Beijing may speak the language of cooperation, it acts like a strategic competitor.

Ex-Chinese Communist leader Zhao dies

BEIJING -- Zhao Ziyang, who was ousted as China's Communist Party leader after sympathizing with the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests and became a symbol of the era's shattered hopes, died Monday after 15 years under house arrest. He was 85.

China's one-child policy
Could China's most notorious social policy soon be scrapped?

Beijing -- A QUARTER of a century after China began urging its citizens to have only one child?and severely punishing the over-progenitive?calls are growing for a change of policy. Some Chinese scholars now say the costs of coping with a rapidly ageing population will outweigh the benefits of maintaining draconian population controls. Even the official media are beginning to publish suggestions that a two-child policy would be preferable.

Old hands hold hands with Beijing on trade policy

Big bucks and big names are proving to be corporate America's weapons of choice in a heightened lobbying push to head off any U.S. retaliation for China's reported involvement in the unfolding political fund-raising scandal.

Henry A. Kissinger, secretary of state in the Nixon and Ford administrations and longtime adviser to major American businesses in China, is a key adviser to corporate leaders of a lobbying campaign announced last week by more than 1,000 top companies seeking expanded U.S.-China trade relations.

Alexander M. Haig Jr., former secretary of state under President Reagan, also is advising both American companies and the Chinese government's maritime shipping company in the campaign.

Clinton Shills for Communist China's Search Engine

Even though the pipsqueak billionaires who run Google Inc. have lavished money on Sen. John Kerry's failed presidential campaign and other Democrat causes, Bill Clinton is promoting a rival search engine backed by China's rights-abusing communist dictatorship.

Records Dispute Kissinger on His '71 Visit to China

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 - Henry A. Kissinger used his historic meeting with Prime Minister Zhou Enlai of China in 1971 to lay out in detail a radical shift in American policy toward Taiwan in exchange for China's help in ending the war in Vietnam, previously classified documents show.

The account of the meeting in the newly released documents contradicts the one that Mr. Kissinger published in his memoirs.

Activist Admits Sending China Technology

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A human rights activist freed from a Chinese prison after the U.S. government interceded on her behalf pleaded guilty Wednesday to illegally selling American high-tech items with potential military uses to China.

Gao Zhan, who was born in China but is a U.S. resident living in McLean, Va., pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful export for selling 80 microprocessors. She also pleaded guilty to tax evasion, as did her husband, Xue Donghua.

AOL Signs Landmark Deal With China

BEIJING - AOL Time Warner Inc. announced a landmark deal Monday that will make it the first foreign television broadcaster in China, in exchange for carrying Chinese state television's English-language channel on U.S. cable systems.

AOL Time Warner Signs Historic Reciprocal Cable TV Carriage Agreement With PRC

CETV Is First Foreign TV Channel To Be Granted Cable Carriage Rights in China

CCTV-9 To Be Distributed On Select Time Warner Cable Systems in the United States

HONG KONG - AOL Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: AOL) announced today an historic agreement under which its CETV channel will be distributed to cable television subscribers in the Southern region of the People's Republic of China. According to Minister Xu Guang Chun, Director of China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), "this is the first time for a foreign TV institution to be granted cable TV carriage rights in Mainland China."

U.S. to Tell China It Will Not Object to Missile Buildup

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 - The Bush administration, seeking to overcome Chinese objections to its missile defense program, intends to tell Chinese officials that it has no objections to the country's plans to build up its relatively small fleet of nuclear missiles capable of striking the United States, according to senior administration officials.

One senior official said that, in the future, the United States and China may discuss resuming underground nuclear tests if they are needed to assure the safety and reliability of their arsenals.

Such a move, however, might also allow China to improve the quality of its nuclear warheads and lead to the end of a worldwide moratorium on nuclear testing.

Arrest Clinton and U.S. corporate traitors

In case you missed it on Monday, WorldNetDaily published a Human Events article documenting without question that Lockheed Martin -- one of the nation's leading defense contractors -- sold a maritime surveillance system to China.

It just so happens that this system -- purported to be only a "commercial" venture -- "in fact will track all surface vessels moving through its range, whether they are commercial or military," said the magazine.

And where is this system located? Hainan Island -- precisely the island where 24 U.S. military crewmen, who were aboard a Navy EP-3E surveillance plane forced to make an emergency landing, are being held.

FREE THE EP-3

Bush's First Foreign-Policy Test
He better not bow to Beijing's bellicosity.

The standoff with China over the fate of a Navy EP-3 reconnaissance plane presents George W. Bush with the first genuine foreign-policy test of his presidency. Undoubtedly, Mr. Bush will be counseled not to let the situation spin out of control and to restore "normal" relations with Beijing as soon as possible. This advice will reflect three decades of conventional wisdom about China. It is no surprise then, that with such expectations, Joseph Prueher, the U.S. ambassador in Beijing, finds China's belligerence "hard for us to understand and hard for me to explain."

But if Mr. Prueher had been listening to the man who replaced him as U.S. commander in chief in the Pacific, Adm. Dennis Blair, he would realize that this accident is not entirely accidental. "The intercepts by Chinese fighters over the past couple of months have become more aggressive to the point we felt they were endangering the safety of Chinese and American aircraft," said Adm. Blair.

TRANSCRIPT

Admiral Dennis C. Blair

Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command

U.S. and Chinese aircraft incident

Sunday, April 1, 2001

Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii

Adm. Blair: Good morning, let me tell you what I know about this incident involving our aircraft in Hainan and I have a chart here that I'll be referring to. About 18 hours ago, when it was the middle of the morning China time, one of our surveillance aircraft was on a routine operation in the South China Sea. It was about 70 miles off the Chinese Island of Hainan in international airspace, and I'll show you the positions in a minute.

Chinese fighters intercepted the aircraft, and one of them bumped into the wing of the EP-3 aircraft. At that time the pilot of the aircraft, declared a mayday. A mayday is an in-flight emergency when the pilot figures that there is enough danger to his aircraft that he needs to go to the nearest airfield and land it in order to be safe for his crew and his airplane. He declared that mayday emergency and then turned to the airfield at Lingshui, which was the closest airfield to land. Now let me show you here what I'm talking about.

Clinton Considering $2 Million Offer From Chinese Firm

Disgraced former president Bill Clinton is considering a $2 million offer to represent a major Chinese garment company, Agence France Press reported Sunday.

China moves on Africa

NEW YORK -- The London Telegraph reports "tens of thousands of Chinese troops and prisoners forced to work as security guards have been moved to Sudan."

I believe it -- especially in light of what WorldNetDaily's Charles Smith has been reporting in recent weeks about China's other moves in Sudan.

Our tradeoff: national security

The Clinton administration, which has perfected the art of Orwellian newspeak - a la Elian, home invasion is ``the rule of law'' - can never exceed last week's performance on granting China what's now called permanent normal trade relations.

The president and his national security stooge declared that building the arsenal of our next most likely adversary is vital to our national security.

Hackers linked to China stole Los Alamos documents

Hackers suspected of working for a Chinese government institute in Beijing broke into a computer system at Los Alamos National Laboratory and pilfered large amounts of sensitive information, including documents containing the word "nuclear," The Washington Times has learned.

Reno calls Taiwan an intelligence threat

The Clinton administration, in a departure from longtime U.S. policy, has placed Taiwan on the FBI's secret list of hostile intelligence threats, equating Taipei with aggressive spying by Beijing and Moscow.

China, Russia and Taiwan are among 13 nations designated as priorities for FBI intelligence and counterespionage activities, according to a classified memorandum from Attorney General Janet Reno.

The real China story

Had CNN and the press corps been on the spot as the story unfolded, it would undoubtedly have dominated the news: days of protest by 20,000 miners discharged from their jobs in China's northeast rust belt, protests that saw roads blocked, windows smashed and cars burned and that finally ended only when the People's Liberation Army fired shots. The story might even have forced the Clinton administration and its specialists to confront true issues in China: issues about the Beijing regime, its policies, its competence and its viability. But because China's media suppressed the story, we are learning of it more than a month after it happened.

Taiwan parliament drops trade ban

[Taipei] Taiwan's parliament on Tuesday dropped a five-decade-old ban on direct trade and transport links between the island and mainland China, a legislator said.

Lockheed charged in aiding China with rocket data

The State Department has charged Lockheed Martin Corp. with illegally helping China develop satellite rocket technology that could be useful in launching multiple-warhead missiles.

China threatens to nuke America
'First wage 'Vietnam'-like conflict, then bomb U.S., says PLA document

Admiral confides warship charade
Despite Gore's tough talk, U.S. throttled defense of Taiwan

WASHINGTON -- Asked at a March 1 presidential debate in Los Angeles how far he'd go to defend Taiwan, Vice President Al Gore held up the Clinton administration's 1996 naval response to the Taiwan Strait crisis as a good example, characterizing it as a direct U.S. military intervention in the channel of water separating mainland China from Taiwan. Yet, although the U.S. dispatched two aircraft-carrier battle groups to the West Pacific during that crisis, it only stationed one carrier near Taiwan waters -- to avoid "antagonizing" China, the former commander of U.S. Pacific forces has told sources privately.

House Speaker Hires Registered Foreign Agent As His Top Foreign-Policy Chief

House Speaker Dennis Hastert has hired a registered agent for a division of a Communist Chinese company linked to Beijing's military intelligence to be his new senior adviser for foreign policy and defense matters.

Speaker In Dark?
Hassert Claims He Wasn't Told About His New Defense Aide's Role As Paid Agent For Beijing

Clinton Fund-Raiser Trie Remains Under Investigation

House Government Reform Committee investigators plan to keep questioning Clinton fund-raiser Charlie Trie in connection with controversial transfers of dual-use technology to the People's Republic of China, or PRC, that he arranged in 1993, news alert! has learned [see ``Trie's Deadly Deals,'' March 20]. As reported in this magazine, Trie's company, Daihatsu International Trading Inc., acted as a conduit for the sale of sophisticated medical fermenters to a medical-research lab in China that allegedly is involved in producing biological weapons.

PetroChina IPO Ends Flat
Activists Declare Victory as Institutional Investors Shun Company

N E W   Y O R K, April 6 - Shares of PetroChina Co., China's largest oil and gas producer, ended their first day of trading unchanged from their initial public offering price in their controversial debut on the New York Stock Exchange.

The Beijing Love-In

What must have been the largest fleet of Lear jets ever assembled began touching down at Shanghai's brand-new international airport on Monday, September 27. It was like a Renaissance Weekend for the U.S. corporate power elite. Henry Kissinger was there, of course. So were Carla Hills and Mickey Kantor and Robert Rubin. And those were just the small fry. Also making the hajj were the chairmen, CEOs, and presidents of well, practically the entire American business universe. Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. General Motors and Ford. Procter & Gamble, AT&T, Honeywell, Rockwell, ENRON, Boeing, and Cargill. Hundreds of them, from dozens of leading companies.

'Appeasement' Vs.'Isolationism'

It went almost unremarked, but something stunning happened in Washington, D.C., last week. A former CIA director denounced the administration for pursuing, as he saw it, a policy of ''appeasement'' toward the People's Republic of China.

Chinese official looks upon U.S. as 'rogue' state

(October 28, 1999 12:56 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Like the United States, China says it is witnessing the potential emergence of a "rogue" state that could throw the world out of balance early in the next century.

Washington warns that unpredictable regimes in nations such as North Korea and Iraq could one day develop long-range missiles and a handful of atomic bombs to engage in nuclear blackmail or worse.

But China's top arms control negotiator, Sha Zukang, says a bigger threat to global stability is already armed to the teeth with hydrogen bombs and sophisticated rockets that can send a nuclear payload to any point on the planet.

That country, Sha says, is the United States.

China curbs privatisation

CHINA yesterday ruled out large-scale privatisation as an option for overhauling the loss-making public sector.

The Communist Party's central committee instead vowed to expand, rather than reduce, the State-owned sector as the cornerstone of socialism in the world's most populous country.

World Bank Loans $200 Million To the Chinese Army

Newly declassified documents, forced from the U.S. Commerce Dept. by a Federal lawsuit, shows that $200 million in World Bank loans for a "Technology Development Project" actually went to weapons research labs and businesses wholly owned by the Chinese Army. The documents reveal that World Bank loans were used to modernize the Chinese Army Defense Industry.

Clinton and the flesh peddlers:
Johnny Chung on prostitution kingpin's White House connection

Inside the dark underworld of international crime, Ng Lapseng earned a reputation of being tough, smart and connected.

Connected? In 1994, the Macau millionaire and brothel owner visited the White House -- a visit captured in a personal photograph with President Clinton and Hillary Clinton.

Banking On The Chinese Army

According to a 1997 report on the Chinese Defense Industry by the Rand Corp., the Chinese communists "often reward themselves with large official and unofficial commissions... In the case of the ministry level receipts, these funds are believed to be used for a wide variety of legitimate and illegitimate purposes, ranging from modernization of industrial plants to the padding of the Swiss bank accounts of top ministry officials."

At What Cost Did China Get Canal?

The Clinton administration sees no Communist Chinese threat to the Panama Canal. Senate Majority Leader Lott and other congressional Republican leaders wonder why.

Sandy Berger's Links to China
National Security Aide's History Sparks Worries

Samuel R. ''Sandy'' Berger doesn't have the resume of the typical national security adviser.

Among Berger's recent predecessors, Robert ''Bud'' McFarlane, John Poindexter and Brent Scowcroft were military men. Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Anthony Lake were academics. All had extensive knowledge of foreign intelligence. Several were experienced diplomats.

But Berger - President Clinton's current national security adviser - has been a political operative who's spent most of his professional life working in politics and lobbying.

China's No.1 Enemy

WASHINGTON -- NATO's accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade has revealed the fallacy at the core of the Clinton Administration's China policy. While Administration officials continue to yearn for a "strategic partnership" with Beijing, China's leaders make no effort to conceal the fact they consider the United States an enemy -- or, more precisely, the enemy.

The Banquo Report

A ghost sat at the end of the table yesterday as the Cox Committee served up a Chinese menu of espionage coups. As inexplicable as the American security blunders seemed, the diners kept averting their eyes from the Clinton campaign finance scandal.

The Clinton Syndrome

The lawyers, flacks, hacks and good Democrats who assured us that it didn't really matter that the president was a pathologically dedicated liar -- because, you will recall, he only lied about that which gentlemen should lie about -- might now wish, in light of the Cox Report on Chinese espionage, to revisit their position.

PLAAF Visits "boosted the Chinese military"

Two powerful House Chairmen are firing hard questions at the Clinton administration concerning reports that were recently published in WorldNetDaily. The reports included U.S. Air Force briefing papers that showed Chinese Army Air Force officers toured Edwards Air Force base in May, 1999.

WEB OF LIES: THE CHINESE EMBASSY BOMBING

The web of lies woven by this Administration to cover up its crimes in the Balkans is so thick and crawling with vermin that it is virtually certain we won't know the unvarnished truth for at least the next fifty years, if then. Even when the truth, in some form, does begin to leak out, as in the case of the London Observer's revelation that the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was deliberate, there is still more than enough reason to suspect that we are being fed yet more lies by master spinmeisters.

China-Gate's Smoking Gun

On February 6, 1996, Bill Clinton met in the White House with the CEO of a major gun manufacturing company. The same gun maker flooded the U.S. market with over four hundred thousand assault rifles in 1994. Only a few months after the meeting with Clinton in 1996, the same gun dealers tried to smuggle over 2,000 machine guns to U.S. drug gangs.

Clinton will do "whatever it takes" to get China into World Trade Organization

President Clinton told Democratic senators Saturday he will do whatever it takes to secure China's entry into the World Trade Organization by the end of the year.

FBI Agent Admits Lying to Make Los Alamos Scientist Look Guilty

ALBUQUERQUE -- An F.B.I. agent admitted in federal court here today that he had provided inaccurate testimony last December that made a Los Alamos scientist accused of mishandling nuclear weapons secrets appear deceptive when he had not been.

Disgrace of the New York Times

The collapse of the government's case against Wen Ho Lee last week represents one of the greatest humiliations of a national newspaper in the history of journalism. One has to go back to the publication by the London Times of the Pigott forgeries in 1887 libeling Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish nationalist hero, to find an equivalent debacle.

Yet, not a whisper of contrition, not a murmur of remorse, has, as yet, agitated the editorial pages of the New York Times, which now righteously urges the appointment of a "politically independent person of national standing to review the entire case."

Los Alamos Scientist Lee Indicted

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Wen Ho Lee compromised the nation's security by moving nuclear secrets from secure computers to portable computer tapes, prosecutors said in announcing a 59-count indictment against the former computer scientist.

Connect China's Dots

I called three friends in the Departments of Energy, Defense and Justice and asked them to turn on their office computers and read to me the first banner that came on their screens.

"Anyone using this system expressly consents to monitoring" is the message. Government employees using Government equipment on Government time thus waive privacy claims. Wen Ho Lee, the scientist who downloaded millions of lines of the nation's most secret codes to a computer easy to penetrate, also signed a waiver consenting to a search of his computer without his knowledge.

And yet the Reno Justice Department denied the F.B.I.'s request for permission to search Lee's Government computer. [...]

Excerpts from the Cox report

Excerpts from the congressional report on Chinese espionage aimed at U.S. nuclear secrets and satellite technology:

``The People's Republic of China (PRC) has stolen design information on the United States' most advanced thermonuclear weapons.

``The Select Committee judges that the PRC's next generation of thermonuclear weapons, currently under development, will exploit elements of stolen U.S. design information.

Some of the secrets that China got

The Cox report lists some of the technology that China obtained through its more than 20 years of spying in the U.S., but the list is most longer than the public report would suggest. Among the losses:

Most damning information against Clinton, others, cut from Cox report

The 700-page Cox Report, released to the public today, is missing more than 100 pages that detail White House involvement in China's extensive theft of U.S. military secrets, material embarrassing to past Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush and details implicating key officials of the US Department of Energy.

Cox report shows two-decades of China spying continued after Clinton took office

The long-awaited, but publicly-incomplete, Cox report shows China spend two-decades trying to steal U.S. weapons technology, but was able to accomplish most of its goals during the Clinton addministration.

Fund-Raiser's Cover Stories May Have Come From Chinese President

WASHINGTON - Fox News has learned that cover stories provided by Chinese operatives to hide China's illegal campaign contributions may have come from or been approved by President Jiang Zemin. Transcripts of FBI wiretaps obtained by Fox News also point to the possibility that President Clinton may have known of both the illegal donations and what was to be said if they were discovered.

PLA Obtains U.S. Satellite Photos of USAF Base On Okinawa

The American bombs that fell on the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade were guided to the wrong target by U.S. satellites. President Clinton claims the bombing was an accident. The Clinton excuse for the Embassy bombing is an outdated satellite map of downtown Belgrade. The Chinese government is rightly skeptical of the "accidental" bombing.

China Stole Data, Report Concludes

WASHINGTON -- A House committee has unanimously concluded that China systematically stole significant American nuclear design secrets, enabling Beijing to accelerate its weapons program so that it now possesses thermonuclear weapons design information on a par with the United States.

Lawmaker delved deep to lay bare China spying

WASHINGTON -- Inside Room H407, a tightly guarded chamber of the Capitol, Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., listened last October as Donald Rumsfeld, a former secretary of defense, talked about China's missiles.

Cox asked a crucial question: How had the Chinese managed to modernize their nuclear weapons program? The special House committee he led was investigating China's access to American technology. It needed an answer.

The answer was a secret, said Rumsfeld, author of a highly classified report on missile threats commissioned by Congress. The committee could not be told. But Cox would not be denied. He went to the CIA to ask for inside information on China's espionage. And he got it.

Energy Official Says He Warned White House in '97 About Los Alamos

The Energy Department's intelligence chief said yesterday he warned the White House and others in 1997 that China might be trying to acquire nuclear weapons simulations codes similar to those discovered this year in the unclassified computer of a former Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist suspected of spying.

China Is Installing a Warhead Said to Be Based on U.S. Secrets

WASHINGTON -- China is close to deploying a nuclear missile with a warhead whose design draws on stolen American secrets, United States intelligence officials say.

Reno names prosecutor to probe lab-secrets leaks

Attorney General Janet Reno, whose Justice Department has been criticized for its investigation of espionage at U.S. nuclear laboratories, Thursday named a veteran federal prosecutor to head a task force to determine whether the probe was mishandled.

WHAT WON'T JANET DO FOR BILL?

THE Justice Department's efforts to block the FBI investigation of the worst episode of espionage in 50 years raises the most important issues of obstruction of justice by Attorney General Janet Reno and her deputy, Eric Holder.

Lies and a Keystone Cops foreign policy

Back in March, President Bill Clinton told the American people that there was "no evidence" that China had stolen nuclear secrets during his term as President. On Sunday, his own Secretary of Energy admitted that, yes, there was China spying. Did Clinton know about this when he said there wasn't spying? Administration sources say he did and that he lied outright about it. But the spying is only part of a growing problem with the world's last remaining Communist superpower. Now it turns out that NATO was using out-of-date street maps to determine what buildings should or should not have been bombed, which resulted in blowing the Chinese embassy to bits. Some intelligence professionals wonder just when it was that the Marx brothers took over U.S. foreign policy

Spies tell China embassy attack was no accident

China's intelligence service reported to Beijing earlier this month that the bombing of Beijing's embassy in Belgrade was a deliberate attack aimed at dragging China into the Balkans conflict, according to Pentagon intelligence officials.

Clinton clears way for Chinese rocket launch

WASHINGTON (May 11, 1999 6:43 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - President Clinton removed the final obstacle blocking the launch of a Chinese rocket carrying a satellite into space next month for the U.S.-led Iridium global paging and telephone network.

Clinton Approves Technology Transfer to China

WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration notified Congress Monday that it had approved the export of technology to China to permit the launching of a communications satellite aboard a Chinese rocket next month.

As angry protests end, China reportedly welcomes internationals

BEIJING (CNN) -- Just a week after fury over NATO's bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade touched off violent protests, China's state media is apparently trying to reassure international visitors that they are welcome.

China's Government Widens Role in Anti-U.S. Protests at Embassy

BEIJING -- Chinese officials choreographed protests against the U.S. Embassy here on Monday, with a relentless procession of tens of thousands of demonstrators that lasted into the night.

China suspends U.S. military contacts
Protests over embassy attack enter 3rd day

BEIJING, China, May 10 - China suspended high-level military contacts with the United States on Monday as outrage over the bombing of its embassy in Yugoslavia fueled anti-U.S. protests for a third day. China's official Xinhua News Agency said consultations with Washington on human rights, arms control, international security and preventing arms proliferation also were being postponed.

Beijing Calm; Media Carry Clinton Apology

BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing's diplomatic district was calm early Tuesday, with no sign of protesters, and state media carried apologies by President Clinton for the NATO bombing of China's embassy in Belgrade for the first time.

400,000 stage anti-Nato protests

Hundreds of thousands of people took part in nationwide protests yesterday against the Nato bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.

Showing strong anti-US sentiments, demonstrators - from Shenyang in Liaoning to Nanning in Guangxi - hurled rocks at American diplomatic buildings and burnt US flags, while some swore to kill Americans.

Urgent US action needed to soothe Beijing and prevent collapse of ties

Sino-US ties could take a leap backwards if Washington does not take substantial action to mollify Beijing.

Protesters Clash, Burn Flags Before Zhu MIT Speech

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Thousands of demonstrators shoved and yelled at each other at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Wednesday shortly before Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji was scheduled to give a speech.

China's explosive NATO unrest distresses Taiwan

TAIPEI - An explosion of anti-western anger across urban China has set off internal alarm bells in Taiwan, which, along with Tibet, lies at the heart of Beijing's opposition to NATO's air attacks on Yugoslavia.

Chinese Protesters Storm U.S. Consulate, Start Fire

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese protesters stormed the U.S. consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu Saturday and set fire to the house of the mission's top official in fury at the NATO strike on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, witnesses said.

Students Break Into U.S. Embassy In Beijing

BEIJING - Students broke into the U.S. embassy compound in Beijing Sunday and tried to tear down the Stars and Stripes from its flagpole on the second day of furious nationwide protests at NATO's missile strike on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

BSO Canceling China Performance

BOSTON (AP) - Fearful of growing instability in China after NATO's accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia, the Boston Symphony Orchestra has apparently canceled two concerts in Beijing.

Americans Warned Against Travel To China

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department Sunday suspended official travel to China by all government employees and urged other Americans to defer plans to visit, citing the ``volatile'' conditions sparked by the NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.

Angry Students Reappear At Beijing Embassies

BEIJING (Reuters) - Several hundred student protesters turned out in front of the British and U.S. embassies Monday, shattering a morning calm following violent weekend protests after NATO missiles accidentally struck China's embassy in Belgrade.

China Suspends Human Rights Dialogue With U.S.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has suspended its human rights dialogue with the United States in retaliation for the NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia.

U.S. Ambassador Sees Security Threat

BEIJING (Reuters) - Fearing that angry Chinese students would storm the U.S. embassy in Beijing, Ambassador James Sasser said Monday he and key staff holed up in the building had scrambled to protect sensitive documents.

Clinton failed to punish nuclear proliferation

Bill Gertz, defense and national security reporter for The Washington Times, details the motives and dangers of the Clinton administration's national defense policies in a new book, "Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security" (Regnery Publishing Inc.), which is excerpted below.

Alarm bells went off at the headquarters of the supersecret National Security Agency on a cold December day in 1995. NSA, located inside an Army base at Fort Meade, Md., is the U.S. intelligence community's ears around the world. It picks up millions of communications, from coded military radio transmissions to cellular-phone conversations by international weapons dealers.

Note Hints Fund-Raiser Knew of Bribery Issue

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department has obtained a note from the Little Rock office of Yah Lin Trie, a Democratic fund- raiser, that suggests he was aware of a bribery problem.

Trie pleads guilty to 2 counts

Charlie Trie struck a deal with the government Friday, raising the possibility that he will provide damaging information about others involved in campaign-finance violations. Trie, 49, a former Little Rock restaurateur and friend of President Clinton's, was on trial in federal court in Little Rock on a felony charge of obstructing a U.S. Senate investigation.

Worker feared Trie, agent says

An FBI agent testified in federal court Wednesday in Little Rock that she watched Charlie Trie's longtime office manager become "crushed" and "shaken" at the moment two years ago when the employee was trapped into speaking against Trie.

From China Through Little Rock
Chinagate's Link To Arkansas Teacher Pensions

The road from Beijing to the White House appears to take many detours through Arkansas.

It was there, as attorney general and governor, that Bill Clinton met Indonesian businessmen Mochtar and James Riady and restaurant owner Charlie Trie, key figures linked to the Chinagate scandals.

But more recently, another possible connection has emerged - through the $7.5 billion Arkansas Teacher Retirement System.

China's Man in Washington: Bill Clinton
Spies and Character

How come they can do it right here in America and how come our Government does not take action when the crimes are discovered?

Stay tuned: China spying scandal is going to get a lot worse

The United States should brace for more ``revelations'' on the China nuclear scandal, a senior U.S. lawmaker said Sunday.

Far too little far too late

Well, well. The world's greatest collection of legislative incompetents, otherwise known as the U.S. Congress, has decided to get off its collective butts and do something about the steady flow of U.S. secrets to Communist China.

Reports Show Scientist Gave U.S. Radar Secrets to China

WASHINGTON -- A scientist working on a classified Pentagon project in 1997 provided China with secrets about advanced radar technology being developed to track submarines, according to court records and government documents.

The Deadliest Download

WASHINGTON -- During President Clinton's watch, America's most vital nuclear secrets -- guarded intensely for five decades -- have been allowed to spill out all over the world.

Mrs. O'Leary's Chinese Cash Cow?

Now that it's clear America's nuclear security has gone up in smoke, it may be time to borrow a phrase from the Great Chicago Fire and ponder the role of former Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary and her onetime cash cow, Johnny Chung.

Chung Details Alleged Chinese Funding Scheme

Former Democratic donor Johnny Chung has provided new information to congressional investigators about his dealings with top Chinese intelligence officials, including claims that other politically connected figures were enlisted to bolster China's interests in the United States.

US lost file on Chinese nuclear spy suspect

A SCIENTIST suspected of passing nuclear secrets to China was first investigated 15 years ago but his file was lost, according to the latest revelations of official incompetence at America's nuclear laboratories. Wen Ho Lee, a Taiwan-born scientist removed from Los Alamos nuclear laboratories earlier this year, failed a lie-detector test in 1984 when he was questioned by the FBI about foreign intelligence contacts, a Senate panel was told.

1998 Report Told of Lab Breaches and China Threat

WASHINGTON -- A secret report to top Clinton Administration officials last November warned that China posed an "acute intelligence threat" to the Government's nuclear weapons laboratories and that computer systems at the labs were being constantly penetrated by outsiders.

China Spy Suspect Reportedly Tried to Hide Evidence

WASHINGTON -- A scientist suspected of spying for China tried to hide evidence that he had transferred nuclear secrets out of a computer system at a Government nuclear weapons laboratory two days after he failed an F.B.I. polygraph examination in February, according to United States officials.

THE NEW ROSENBERGS?

The Chinese nuclear-spy scandal has revealed, yet again, that the Clinton administration lies the way babies breathe: rapidly and frequently.

Official Confirms Security Breach
Nuclear Secrets Shifted Out of Computer Net

The Clinton administration acknowledged yesterday that an espionage suspect at Los Alamos National Laboratory transferred secret nuclear weapons data from a classified computer network to an unclassified system vulnerable to outsiders.

Spying by China Ongoing in U.S., Panel Chief Says

WASHINGTON--A high-profile congressional committee investigation into Chinese spying in the United States concludes not only that China stole "the crown jewels of our nuclear arsenal" over the last two decades but that the espionage "continues to this very day," according to the panel's Republican chairman.

Intelligence pros say Clinton administration "aided and abetted" China spying

While a now public CIA report confirms China stole valuable nuclear secrets from the United States, intelligence professionals say privately it does not go far enough in disclosing how the Clinton administration aided and abetted the spying activities by the communist country.

CHINESE GENERALS INSIDE THE COMMERCE DEPT.

In 1994, Chinese General Ding Henggao announced a new project to modernize the People's Liberation Army. In 1994 General Ding Henggao was the head of COSTIND (Chinese Commission of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense). General Ding introduced the world to the red Army "16 Characters Slogan" or "military production first" project.

CIA confirms the truth that Clinton denifed: China stole nuclear secrets

Although the Clinton administration continues to deny widespread espionage by China in this country, the CIA has confirmed China is only a few years away from fielding improved nuclear weapons with the help of classified information gained by spying on the United States.

CIA finds national security damaged by Chinese espionage

WASHINGTON (AP) - A CIA report to be presented to lawmakers today concludes that Chinese espionage targeting nuclear weapons laboratories damaged U.S. national security, according to a senior Clinton administration official.

China Stole Data on Atom Warhead, U.S. Report Finds

WASHINGTON -- A comprehensive new analysis by U.S. intelligence officials has concluded that China stole design information related to the United States' most advanced nuclear warhead from a government nuclear weapons laboratory, government officials said.

Report Warns of Big Gains to Chinese From Spying

WASHINGTON -- China is likely to use stolen advanced American nuclear weapons secrets to upgrade its weapons within years, not decades, a senior intelligence official said Wednesday.

Cox public report due "within days," but White House link will be edited out

The Republican congressman who led a House investigation into China acquiring U.S. technology said Wednesday no other country has stolen as many U.S. secrets.

Clinton Administration Delays Cox Report

On Fox News Sunday Congressman Chris Cox charged that the Clinton administration, specifically the Energy Department, is citing illegitimate reasons for delaying the release of the "Cox Report" on U.S. technology transfers to China. He also revealed that believes the Chinese gave money not only to influence the campaign but in order acquire technology.

Energy Department Officials to Take Lie Detector Tests

On Tuesday, April 27, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) issued letters to Department of Energy employees Elizabeth Moler and Notra Trulock, asking them to make arrangements with his office to take polygraph tests relating to their April 12 testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Moler became Deputy Secretary of Energy in June of 1997, and served as Acting Secretary of Energy from July 1 to August 1, 1998. Trulock was in charge of counterintelligence for the department from 1994-98.

DoJ Action Delays Chung Testimony

(CNS) - The planned testimony of former Democratic fundraiser Johnny Chung before the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee has been pushed back until May because of delays in questioning Chung by Janet Reno's Department of Justice.

Chung details fund-raising story to Congress

WASHINGTON (May 11, 1999 8:38 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Campaign fund-raising figure Johnny Chung is testifying in public for the first time, claiming the head of Chinese military intelligence offered $300,000 intended to help re-elect President Clinton.

Chinese money was routed through Lippo link to the Clinton campaign

Chinese military intelligence officers diverted illegal campaign donations to the Clinton-Gore Re-Election Committee through a Hong Kong bank controlled by an Indonesian family with long-standing ties to President Clinton, authorities said.

Testimony Links Top China Official, Funds for Clinton
Ex-Democratic fund-raiser Chung told U.S. investigators that military intelligence chief secretly directed $300,000 to help president in '96. Embassy spokesman denies Beijing was involved in elections.

Suspected Chinese Spy Continues Stonewall Pleads the Fifth 419 Times

On Thursday, April 15, Judicial Watch deposed John Huang for the third time in its lawsuit against the Commerce Department [1]. Huang, a suspected Chinese spy, worked in the Clinton Commerce Department in 1994, before becoming a fundraiser for the Democrat National Committee. In the lawsuit Judicial Watch alleges that seats on Commerce Department trade missions abroad were sold for contributions to the DNC and 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign.

Explosive theory on `espionage'
Father of neutron bomb says U.S. gave China nuclear secrets

LOS ANGELES -- Sam Cohen is an atheist Jew whose most prized possession is a peace medal given to him by a Roman Catholic pope. He got it for creating the neutron bomb.

``No (expletive deleted) rabbi or Protestant minister wanted anything to do with me,'' grumbled Cohen, now 78 years old and still bitter that most people didn't share the pope's approval of his work.

Inside the Chinese Espionage Coverup

Editor's note -- On Monday, Energy Department official Notra Trulock appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee to describe his efforts to expose alleged Chinese spying at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Trulock testified that each time he came upon evidence of espionage, his superiors at the department -- whom he expected would want to root out and stop the spying -- instead tried to cover it up. In many papers and newscasts, Trulock's extraordinary testimony was lost amid coverage of the war in Kosovo, the Paula Jones contempt decision, and the Susan McDougal verdict. So here, in his own words before the Senate, is Notra Trulock's story.

From May 1994 to May 1998, I was the director of intelligence and the senior intelligence officer of the Department of Energy. After February of 1995 until April of 1998, I was also responsible for counterintelligence. In both of these jobs, I was assisted by two highly-respected CIA professional officers...

Intelligence Report Points to Second China Nuclear Leak

WASHINGTON -- In early 1996, the United States received a startling report from one of its Chinese spies. Officials inside China's intelligence service, the spy said, were boasting that they had just stolen secrets from the United States and had used them to improve Beijing's neutron bomb, according to American officials.

Love, honor and inform? Los Alamos spy's wife was an FBI informant

The wife of a Taiwanese-born scientist who passed U.S. nuclear secrets to China was an informant for the FBI, although she apparently did not rat on her husband.

Energy officials admit ducking questions on spy case

WASHINGTON (April 15, 1999 2:03 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Energy Department officials acknowledged Thursday they kept information from a House subcommittee last fall on an alleged Chinese spying case.

Free the Cox report

With the passing of each day, it is becoming increasingly clear why the Clinton administration has so vehemently opposed the declassification of much of the Cox Report.

John Huang Pleads the Fifth

John Huang, a former Commerce Department official and Democratic National Committee fundraiser, invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination in a Tuesday deposition conducted by Judicial Watch, a legal watchdog group. Huang is at the center of the Clinton administration campaign finance scandal, which involves millions of dollars in illegal contributions allegedly made by agents of Communist China to the DNC and the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign.

Clinton fund-raiser Huang ordered to answer questions under oath on Tuesday

WASHINGTON (April 9, 1999 9:52 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - A main player in the Clinton campaign finance controversy, former Commerce Department official and Democratic fund-raiser John Huang, was ordered to answer questions under oath.

China's Zhu denies spying, nuke theft

Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji Thursday denied knowledge of espionage or attempts by China's government to aid President Clinton's re-election campaign with cash in 1996.

Of Nukes & Spooks

WASHINGTON -- "Absolutely no truth to it -- it's an outrageous statement," fumed Samuel Berger, the first national security adviser to regularly attend political campaign meetings in the White House. "It's wrong . . . not based on any facts whatsoever."

He was responding to Tim Russert's quotation on NBC's "Meet the Press" of my assertion of connections among: (a) the Clinton-Gore fund-raising from admittedly illegal Asian sources, followed by our stunning turnabout in trade policy; (b) the uncleared access to the White House by a high Chinese military intelligence official; (c) the Clinton decision, accompanied by huge campaign contributions by a satellite manufacturer, to switch regulation of technology transfer to his anything-goes Commerce Department, and (d) the years of foot-dragging by the Clinton National Security Council when confronted by evidence that China had stolen nuclear secrets from Los Alamos.

Abetting Espionage

It's almost too fantastic to believe. But evidence has surfaced that the administration may have turned a blind eye toward Red Chinese espionage - if not actually abetted it.

Beginnings of Chinagate?
Source provides details of early satellite launch attempts

A former stockholder in a now-defunct commercial space company said, "there is every indication" that the current crisis involving the transfers of U.S. military technology to China had its roots in the late 1980s.

Commerce secretary goes to China
Judicial Watch questions trip's motives

More Commerce Department jaunts to China during the middle of an investigation into nuclear espionage scandal? That's what one watchdog group is asking.

Blame Clinton, Not China For the Lapse at Los Alamos

"Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found by calculation. It must be obtained by people, people who know the conditions of the enemy."

--Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"

The Chinese, who wrote the book on spying 2,500 years ago, are now denying any involvement in the theft of nuclear secrets from Los Alamos National Laboratory by a Chinese-American scientist named Lee Wen Ho. Given the overwhelming amount of circumstantial evidence--so far available only in the press--their denials ring false. The question that remains is where we go from here.

Dead men tell no tales

In August 1994, American businessman K.S. Wu traveled with Ron Brown to Communist China. Today, Mr. Wu is reported to be dead, and no one in the Democratic National Committee (DNC) wants to talk about him.

Nuclear Lapses Known in '96, Aides Now Say

WASHINGTON -- In late 1996, months earlier than previously acknowledged, a senior Clinton Administration official ordered that security measures at the nation's nuclear weapons laboratories be quickly strengthened, but his orders were largely ignored or delayed, Administration officials said on Tuesday.

ENERGY DEPT.'S CHINAGATE LINK
O'Leary's Trade Junket To China Gets 2nd Look

If only they knew then what they know now.

In auditing former Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary's bloated travel budget in June 1996, House Commerce Committee investigators didn't really focus on her China trip any more than her other three overseas ''trade missions.''

Clinton administration admits Chinese gained from stolen technology

The Clinton administration admitted Sunday the Chinese gained from technology stolen from a federal nuclear weapons lab but insisted the government responded decisively.

EVERYTHING'S FOR SALE IN CLINTON'S WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON DC - The United States Department of Energy revealed last week that Wen Ho Lee, a Chinese-born nuclear scientist employed at the top-secret Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory, had been under FBI investigation for espionage since 1996.

LIES ABOUT CHINA

President Clinton's China policy, a mess of corruption and carelessness and naivete, is collapsing under the weight of its own fraudulence, exposing the nation Clinton calls America's "strategic partner" as a threat to America's security and a thief of America's nuclear secrets, and exposing also the president and senior administration officials for their efforts to minimize and hide this unwelcome fact.

Public Nuisances

[Washington] "Where's the outrage," as they say in these here parts. Chinese espionage agents and commercial espionage agents have been carrying off top-secret American technology for years, the New York Times now reports. The report has incited anger among both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill. But will it become outrage? Will it last? And will it eventuate into any action at all? Finely-documented stories of Beijing's intrigue have appeared in print since at least 1995. Always the White House manages the scandal as suavely as if it were merely the most recent squawk of a begroped lady in distress or another tearful victim of the boss's sexual depravity.

Physicist jailed for passing data to China deemed 'ahead of his time'

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico -- Within two weeks, Peter Lee, a Taiwan-born physicist who once worked at the nuclear weapons laboratory here, will complete a one-year sentence to a halfway house in California.

WATCH BOMBS-AWAY BUBBA TRY TO MAKE US FORGET THIS

PRESIDENTIAL hopeful Pat Buchanan summed up the crisis of the nukes-and-spooks scandal with the beautiful simplicity of sunlight.

"It took just an afternoon to fire the entire travel office of the White House over a false charge," he said.

"But it took three years to remove someone who allegedly transferred the most vital secrets since the Rosenbergs."

Red Storm Rising

IT'S clear the United States suffered a national security breach of historic proportions in the mid-1980s, when a spy for communist mainland China stole nuclear weapons secrets from the Los Alamos, N.M., complex. Nearly as bad, however, is the Clinton administration's response -- or lack of it -- since discovering the theft almost four years ago.

Targeting Berger

At least three Republican presidential candidates rebuked National Security Adviser Samuel R. Berger yesterday for his role in the burgeoning Chinese spy scandal.

House Condemns China Over Abuse

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House of Representatives joined the Senate today in voting unanimously to urge the Clinton administration to sponsor a U.N. resolution condemning Beijing for human rights abuses in China and Tibet.

Scientist: Clinton Administration Gave China Top Nuclear Secrets

A scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has provided information that seriously contradicts Clinton administration claims that nuclear secrets obtained by China were solely the result of espionage during the late 1980's.

The 'T-word' revisited

"The more you look into this business of the transfer of advanced, sophisticated technology to the Chinese military, which seems to be clearly for campaign contributions, the harder it is to stay away from words like 'treason,'" said House Majority Leader Dick Armey last year.

Gore linked to Chinagate
Judicial Watch names him as defendant

A day after Vice President Al Gore defended the Clinton administration's China policy and blamed predecessors for permitting suspected nuclear espionage by Beijing, a new Judicial Watch lawsuit names him as a defendant in the Chinagate scandal.

The mother of all scandals

As might have been expected, in response to the burgeoning Chinese espionage scandal, the Clinton administration wasted little time unveiling its "Blame Ronald Reagan First" strategy. Vice President Al Gore will be the man to deal with any electoral repercussions, and so the White House dispatched him to CNN on Tuesday to spread whatever disinformation he could. In no mood to accept responsibility, Mr. Gore put on a very disingenuous show. Coming from the man who coined the phrase "no controlling legal authority" to absolve himself of any guilt for shaking down Buddhist monks and nuns for campaign contributions in 1996, Mr. Gore's performance met the low standards he long ago perfected.

The China threat becomes real

For nearly two years, WorldNetDaily has alone as a news agency been hammering away at the strategic threat to the United States posed by China and the way the Clinton administration has ignored, if not encouraged, Beijing's active measures to subvert U.S. security.

Lies About China

President Clinton's China policy, a mess of corruption and carelessness and naivete, is collapsing under the weight of its own fraudulence, exposing the nation Clinton calls America's "strategic partner" as a threat to America's security and a thief of America's nuclear secrets, and exposing also the president and senior administration officials for their efforts to minimize and hide this unwelcome fact.

American Defeat

Throughout the 1996 Clinton campaign for President, China's agents of influence had the run of the White House as they raised millions for the Clinton campaign. Chinese military intelligence officials were waved in without clearance. U.S. executives contributed megabucks as they lobbied for easier approval of sales of sensitive technology to Beijing.

U.S. secrets flow freely to China
"It's a sieve at our national labs..."

The Chinese-American Los Alamos scientist fired for giving American nuclear secrets to China is only "the tip of the iceberg" of a pattern of free-flowing sensitive technology transfers to the Communist country, sources told Capitol Hill Blue Monday.

William Perry's Treacherous Conflicts

In 1994, William Hambrecht, a major donor to Bill Clinton, profited directly from advanced military technology sales to the Chinese Army. Hambrecht is the financial backer of the internet magazine SALON. Hambrecht, a very liberal investment banker, owns the firm Hambrecht and Quist (H & Q), based in San Francisco.

Chinese spying
Reds now can launch multiple nuclear warheads

The whole story is not out yet about Chinese spying at Los Alamos and the U.S. reaction to it, but enough is now known and enough has now been admitted by the Clinton administration to arrive at a fairly long list of unpleasant conclusions.

Military exchange with Beijing raises security concerns

The Pentagon is expanding military ties to the People's Liberation Army this year in a program some officials say will expose sensitive U.S. military know-how and boost China's capability for invasion and long-range operations.

China's strategic threat to U.S.
Expert says Clinton administration oblivious

China wants the U.S. out of Asia, and will continue to upgrade and enhance its military capability to accomplish that goal, according to a senior congressional policy analyst.

China Stole Nuclear Secrets From Los Alamos, U.S. Officials Say

WASHINGTON -- Working with nuclear secrets stolen from a U.S. government laboratory, China has made a leap in the development of nuclear weapons: the miniaturization of its bombs, according to administration officials.

Suspect in Probe of China Atomic Spying Fails Polygraph

A Taiwan-born American scientist, who is suspected of turning over to China design information about a key U.S. nuclear missile warhead 10 years ago, failed a polygraph test last month, according to administration sources.

U.S. Computers Fuel Chinese Advances
American Export Trade Conflicts With Vital Security Concerns

BEIJING - The American-made supercomputer that crowds Liu Zhi's fourth-floor office at the Institute of Geology here is bigger than a mid-sized van and cost more than $300,000. It sits under a large blue tarp, obsolete and unused.

Last year, the institute bought a new computer made by Palo Alto-based Sun Microsystems that is 562 times faster, cost just $20,000 and is the size of a desktop unit. Liu linked it to the Internet, and now scholars can perform complex calculations that were previously unthinkable from the privacy of their offices.

China Says U.S. Missile Defense Plan 'Last Straw'

BEIJING - A senior Chinese official warned the United States Friday that offering to shelter Taiwan under a missile defense umbrella would be the "last straw'' and lead to serious consequences.

Chinese Missile Threat Alleged - Officials: Hub case highlights instability

All-out efforts by China to modernize its ballistic missile systems not only threaten to destabilize Asia, but also signal the need for increased vigilance at home against efforts - such as a recent Boston case - to steal sensitive technology, U.S. officials warned.

Fruits Of A China Policy

When the Clinton administration defended its policy of engagement with China, it painted a bleak picture of the alternative. If the United States did not seek warmer relations with China, it warned, that Asian giant was more likely to become hostile. Democratization and human rights would suffer. China would not cooperate with the United States in trouble spots around the world.

Well, President Clinton went to China to promote his "strategic partnership," and look what we have: a massive Chinese military buildup threatening Taiwan, according to a Pentagon report last week.

Columnist wins suit for Chinagate files
Commerce Department ordered to turn over all documents

The Clinton administration suffered a blow yesterday as a federal district court judge ordered the U.S. Commerce Department to turn over documents that could incriminate members of the White House in the Chinagate scandal.

Chinese military intelligence involved in effort to influence U.S. policy -- Former fundraiser for Democrats reportedly told grand jury of plan

One-time Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung has told the grand jury investigating campaign finance irregularities of a broader, more sophisticated effort by China's military intelligence agency to use campaign contributions and investments to try to influence U.S. policy and help Chinese intelligence operations, NBC News has learned.

Committee Furious About Phony White House Declassification

House panel urges action on Chinese thefts

A special House committee investigating U.S. weapons technology transfers to China urges the Clinton administration in a secret report to prevent further thefts of nuclear technology by Chinese spies.

China Warns U.S. About Missiles

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top Chinese diplomat warned the Clinton administration Tuesday against working with Japan or Taiwan on anti-missile defense systems, suggesting that Beijing might build more powerful missiles in response.

China deploys 200 missiles facing Taiwan

CHINA has stationed up to 200 new ballistic missiles next to Taiwan and plans to deploy hundreds more, according to a leaked Pentagon report confirmed by Taiwan's Defence Ministry.

Chinese Man Charged With Trying to Buy Missile Guidance Gear

BOSTON, March 1 - A Chinese man was arrested in California on charges of trying to buy equipment vital to missile guidance systems and smuggle it to his homeland, authorities said today.

House Panel Says Chinese Obtained U.S. Arms Secrets

WASHINGTON -- A select House committee, in a classified report unusual for its bipartisanship, has found that over the last 20 years China obtained, sometimes through theft, some of the most sensitive of American military technology, including nuclear weapons design, Government officials and witnesses before the panel say.

China Received Secret Data On Advanced U.S. Warhead

WASHINGTON -- China received secret design information for the most modern U.S. nuclear warhead, and U.S. officials say the top suspect is an American scientist working at a U.S. Department of Energy weapons laboratory.

Atomic Labs Criticized For Security Conditions
China Reportedly Got Neutron Bomb Data

A classified report by a House committee examining transfers of American technology to China focuses in part on allegations that Beijing developed the neutron bomb in the late 1980s after Chinese spies stole technology from a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory, congressional sources said.

Speedy Action Urged on China's Theft of Technology

WASHINGTON -- A leading Senate Republican on Thursday called a special House committee's findings that China obtained or stole some of the United States' most sensitive military technology "extremely troubling," and said the Senate should act quickly to address the problems.

C.I.A. Ignored Report of Payments to Chinese for Satellite Contracts

WASHINGTON -- CIA officers in China told headquarters in March 1996 that a consultant for American aerospace companies had made payments to Chinese officials in hopes of getting lucrative contracts, U.S. intelligence officials say.

New York Times Prints DOJ Cover Story for Chinagate

The book "The Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash" by Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett II, published October 1998, has already reached 85,000 printed copies. For a while it even made the New York Times bestseller list. That is a serious problem to the White House and the Justice Department, for it makes a clear and compelling case that Bill Clinton, starting in 1992, sold foreign policy and access to military technology to the Chinese Communists in return for the campaign cash he needed to attain and hold the office of President.

WASHINGTON -- After a two-year investigation of Chinese political contributions to the 1996 election, Federal authorities have unearthed new evidence that Beijing's efforts were part of a broader campaign to obtain access to American high technology, according to lawyers and investigators.

Pentagon Inquiry Faults Missile Maker's China Aid

WASHINGTON -- A secret Pentagon report concludes that Hughes Space and Communications, without proper authorization, gave China technological insights that are crucial to the successful launchings of satellites and ballistic missiles.

When rocket science turns troublesome

Who gets most from U.S.-Chinese ventures?

Not long after Bill Clinton's first inaugural, a group of government bureaucrats gathered in an unremarkable building across from the White House and sat down to talk about China. The topic on the table was whether Beijing was "dumping" its Long March rockets on the international market in a bid to undercut U.S. and other space-launch providers. The various iterations of the Long March were somewhat unreliable, betraying an unfortunate tendency to explode not long after liftoff. But U.S.satellite makers liked the Long Marches. They were cheap, for one thing.

Anatomy Of A Cover-up

On Feb. 23, 1999, U.S. Federal Judge Payne issued an order for the Commerce Dept. to release documents on the Chinese Army unit, COSTIND (the Chinese Commission of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense). The Court order was in response to a suit filed by Softwar, following a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) denial by the Commerce Dept.

The Commerce Department claimed that records detailing meetings between COSTIND Army officers and Commerce officials did not exist. Much like Mrs. Clinton's claim that "Whitewater" billing records did not exist, the Commerce claims turned out to be false.

The Year of the Rat: Who Holds the Keys to Chinagate?

For the past five years, the People's Republic of China has embarked on a campaign to dramatically upgrade its military capability by using sensitive technology imported from America. And the Clinton administration stands accused of selling these secrets for millions of dollars in campaign contributions. CBN News reporter David Snyder traces the flow of military technology to China, and the threat it may pose to the United States.

Judge Tosses 11 Campaign Charges

A federal judge yesterday threw out much of the government's case against Thai businesswoman Pauline Kanchanalak, delivering the latest in a series of legal blows to Attorney General Janet Reno's campaign finance investigation.

Aide testifies Trie told her to get rid of records

Charlie Trie's longtime assistant told jurors in federal court in Little Rock on Tuesday afternoon that Trie didn't want to hand over documents subpoenaed by the U.S. Senate in its campaign fund-raising investigation.

Yet another Clinton fundraiser charged; could spur further prosecutions

A federal appeals court ruling that reinstated charges against a Democratic fund-raiser accused of hiding illegal contributions to the Clinton-Gore campaign will aid prosecutors in several other campaign-finance cases.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday reversed a lower court ruling that had thrown out five false-statements charges against Maria Hsia, who steered thousands of dollars from a Buddhist temple to the 1996 campaign.

Clinton 1st to OK China, Taiwan '3 No's'

WASHINGTON--When it comes to misleading the American public, it's hard to top the Clinton administration.

To understand this, it's worth exploring in detail the facts and nuances underlying one aspect of the president's visit to China--namely, what he said and did concerning Taiwan.

A New China Policy Is Born

On June 27, at the close of the climactic day of President Clinton's trip to China, the president's national security adviser, Samuel R. Berger, said: "I think this has been quite an extraordinary day in the evolution of U.S.-China relations." He was right, unfortunately.

Chinese dissidents critique Clinton's kid gloves

China Gets U.S. Military Phones

Loral chairman, China full partners
As security scandal unfolds, Schwartz accepts 'investment'

Only weeks before a national security scandal over the propriety of a relationship between Loral Space & Communications Corp. Chairman Bernard Schwartz broke, a subsidiary of the U.S. company was accepting full partnerships and a $37.5 million investment by two Chinese government-front companies.

Technology Transfer to the Chinese

In a special 20/20 investigation, Chris Wallace reports on the possible transfer of sensitive American technology to the Chinese, on 20/20 Wednesday, Dec. 2 (10-11 p.m., EST).

Justice investigating CIA for possible criminal violations

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department is conducting an obstruction-of-justice investigation of CIA officials who passed along to a satellite contractor sensitive information about a Senate investigation into technology transfers to China.

Justice look into CIA tips to electronics firm about probe

WASHINGTON (AP) - The CIA admits it tipped off Hughes Electronics that company officials would be called before a Senate committee investigating Hughes technology exports to China. Justice Department investigators now want to know who approved the contacts.

Old Concerns Over Data Transfer to China Get New Attention

WASHINGTON -- When a Central Intelligence Agency scientist visited Hughes Electronics Corp. in Los Angeles in 1995 to learn more about China's missile capabilities, he became concerned that the satellite manufacturer may have helped improve Chinese military capabilities.

U.S. protests Chinese shipment of missile technology to Iran

China last month delivered a new shipment of missile technology to Iran, prompting an official U.S. protest during a meeting in Beijing, according to U.S. intelligence and national security officials.

Clinton's pals in Chinese army

In November, the State Department released a detailed 1996 report on U.S. high-tech exports to China as a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. But it refused to release another document on Clinton-sponsored exports to China, claiming to do so would threaten the "national defense."

The Jigsaw Man - How China Uses US Technology

I had the good fortune to speak with Chinese dissident Harry Wu. Harry Wu spent a good portion of his adult life in a concentration camp in China. Harry worked digging coal, mining copper and tilling the fields. Today, China maintains a system of so-called prison camps (lu gao) which supply the raw materials for her expanding economy. Inside the Chinese Gulag, millions suffer under the most primitive conditions as slave labor for the communist empire. Many so called dissidents are now serving in these forced labor camps.

The truth about Chinese defector

The real truth about Chinese missile scientist Hua Di remains unpublished by the mass media. What appears to be a foolish defector arrested by the Chinese government is a cover story for espionage. Hua Di was the self-described "matchmaker" in a Clinton administration high-tech deal for the Red Army.

Hua Di was a Red Chinese double-agent.