-Caveat Lector- .............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "conspiracy posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "Lloyd Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Govenment Overlooking Russian and Chinese Threats Date: Thursday, July 20, 2000 7:43 PM From: Howard Rothenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: SNET: Govenment Overlooking Russian and Chinese Threats Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:14:03 -0700 -> SNETNEWS Mailing List Wednesday July 19 4:41 PM ET US China-Russia Policy Questioned By PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Clinton administration has become ``complacent and oblivious'' to China's growing military might and its burgeoning ``anti-American'' alliance with Russia, a congressional panel was told Wednesday. The testimony before the House Armed Services Committee came a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese counterpart Jiang Zemin joined to condemn what they said were U.S. attempts to dominate world order and pledged to stand against American power. ``The ... relationship and the new trends within it are sufficiently alarming and so increasingly and overtly opposed to vital U.S. military and political interests as to deserve our unflagging attention,'' said Stephen J. Blank of the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College. ``It is clear ... that this is fundamentally an anti-American relationship,'' he told the hearing into China's foreign policy, military capabilities and view toward the United States. Other witnesses challenged the Clinton administration philosophy that China's growing economic prosperity will eventually erode communism there and lead to more democratic ways. ``There is a dangerous complacency in these assumptions,'' said June Teufel Dreyer, University of Miami political science professor. ``Even if the People's Republic of China were to become a democracy, China would not necessarily become less of a threat to its neighbors.'' China, said Richard Fisher, a fellow at the Jamestown Foundation think tank, is pushing ``an ambitious modernization program'' designed to ``subdue Taiwan,'' then ``get military dominance in the great Asia-Pacific.'' ``I am concerned that along with this increased military capability will come an increased willingness to use force in ways that directly threaten the United States and U.S. interests,'' said committee Chairman Rep. Floyd D. Spence, R-S.C. Blank noted that Russia is already helping China prepare for such a confrontation in Taiwan, saying Russian-Chinese military transfers amount to more than $2 billion a year. ``Moscow is helping China build capabilities for conflict in the Taiwan strait, and these capabilities will be used to deter or confront us,'' if the United States comes to Taiwan's aid, he said. ``A confrontation with the United States in and around or over Taiwan is the dominant scenario today in China's war planning and training,' he said. Ending a one-day summit Tuesday in Beijing, Putin and Jiang signed documents criticizing the proposed U.S. national missile defense system and blasting ``hegemonism'' and attempts to interfere in countries' internal affairs. The latter two statements were seen as veiled attacks on NATO, U.S. bullying and last year's war on Yugoslavia, all of which have been criticized in the past by the two former communist rivals. After decades of tension that followed a falling-out in the late 1950s, relations between Moscow and China have been steadily improving since the late 1980s. Since the 1991 Soviet collapse, China has evolved into one of Russia's major trading partners and is the top customer for Russia's ailing military industrial complex. Beijing has purchased billions of dollars worth of jets, missiles, submarines and destroyers. ``One of the most distressing things about this Russo-Chinese relationship is the fact that the United States has been oblivious and complacent concerning this,'' Blank said. 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