-Caveat Lector-
WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War!
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.
The Pentagon has said that despite China's increasing preparations for a
potential clash over Taiwan, Beijing is unlikely to attack the island
nation
because the Chinese believe war would jeopardize their economic growth and
world standing.
-
On the Net:
Pentagon report on security situation in Taiwan Strait:
http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/twstrait-02261999.html
State Department background notes on China:
http://www.state.gov/www/background-notes/china-899-bgn.html
*COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107,
any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use
without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest
in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational
purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ]
Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists!
******************************************************************************
*******************
A vote for Bush or Gore is a vote to continue Clinton policies!
A vote for Buchanan is a vote to continue America!
Therefore a vote for Gore or Bush is a wasted vote for America!
Don't waste your vote! Vote for Patrick Buchanan!
Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a
snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become
nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey...
Patrick Buchanan
<A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A>
DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER
==========
CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic
screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are
sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis-
directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with
major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.
That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and
always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no
credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.
Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
========================================================================
Archives Available at:
http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html
<A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A>
http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
<A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A>
========================================================================
To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Om
