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In a message dated 00-04-08 10:09:53 EDT, you write: << Seasoned security experts are deeply concerned. Al Santoli, a senior adviser to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, California Republican, and one of the most informed China experts on Capitol Hill, points to a recent joint CIA-FBI report to Congress on Communist Chinese espionage that says, The Chinese government continues to seek influence in Congress through various means, including inviting congressional members to the PRC [Peoples Republic of China], lobbying ethnic Chinese voters and prominent U.S. citizens and engaging U.S. business interests to weigh in on issues of mutual concern.>> There should be a law preventing other governments from buying our government. The US government is supposed to belong and support the concerns of American citizens. There is something very wrong here, cooked congress people should be removed from office for accepting bribes. << The intelligence report appears to refer to elder statesmen with decades-long business ties to Chinas Communist leaders and to corporate giants such as the Boeing Co., Chrysler Corp., General Motors and Motorola that have made an indelible mark on the China-policy debate. When American business lobbied Congress on China policy in the past, one could believe that corporate America was not doing Chinas bidding but rather was protecting its own interests, writes Mann. With the lobby campaign against reaffirming the U.S. security relationship with Taiwan, he argues, this distinction is not so clear anymore.>> Corporations are not persons and cannot vote legally, they also should be prevented from voting illegally with money. They should not be allowed to lobby at all. << Seduced by visions of selling consumer products to 1 billion Chinese, many business figures, including former national-security leaders who built personal relations with Communist officials, have moved from simply pushing policies that would increase trade with China to becoming, in effect, agents of influence for the Beijing regime. One of the most prominent is Boeing, the civilian jetliner manufacturer and Pentagon contractor. With potential 12-figure Chinese aircraft orders at stake, Boeings concern is understandable, as some of its critics admit. Beijing has exploited that concern to the hilt. If the company doesnt deliver political influence for the Communist government, Boeing chief international strategist Lawrence Clarkson told the Seattle Times in 1996, were toast. To ensure its 70 percent share of the Chinese airliner market, Boeing, in cooperation with other similarly motivated companies, pushed hard not only for Congress annually to renew most favored nation, or MFN, status for China, but to change the way the people of the United States view the corrupt one-party regime. >> What bullshit, the Communist Chinese already make nearly everything we buy. They do not make enough money to buy US goods, just another thing like Japan, we buy their products, but they place a tariff on out products that is so high, a normal person cannot afford to buy them. And why pray tell should we open our borders and pocketbooks to a communist country, who violate rights of their own citizens, much as a Fascist regime would do? I say tell the commie chinese to stick it. Regards, Bob Stokes http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives 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://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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
[CTRL] How it's done. American corporations have a long sordid history of treason.
-Caveat Lector- http://www.ctrl.org/"> -Cui Bono?- Chinas Agents of Influence By J. Michael Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communist China is using the weight and strength of U.S. business including some of the nations largest defense contractors to promote its military and security goals. It used to be that in the China debate the giants of the U.S. business community argued strongly to separate national-security issues from trade. Now big business is doing what it always argued against by opposing national-security legislation at Beijings behest. In an elegant act of political jujitsu, Communist China now is using the weight and strength of U.S. business including some of the nations largest defense contractors to promote its own military and security goals. The shift, under way for years, has emerged during the last few months as big business and related interest groups weighed in against legislation designed to cement the long-standing U.S. security relationship with the Republic of China on Taiwan. Last October, when the House International Relations Committee voted a lopsided 32-6 for the Taiwan Security Enhancement Act, or TSEA, the business lobbies that had focused almost purely on Red China trade issues sprang into action. They pressed the House Republican leadership to pull the bill lest it be called for a full vote of the House and to postpone consideration until later. The GOP leadership caved. The American business community has crossed a Rubicon in pursuit of its deepening relationship with the Chinese government, wrote liberal Los Angeles Times columnist and respected China watcher Jim Mann. For the first time, American corporations have waged an intensive Washington lobbying campaign in seeming support of China on an issue that has no direct connection to trade, investment or other economic matters in which the U.S. business community has an obvious interest. The effort has succeeded for now, but its troubling ramifications may haunt the business community for years to come. Now, the TSEA is back. Early this year it sailed through the House and is awaiting Senate consideration as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and other business groups launch another attack in support of Red China. Seasoned security experts are deeply concerned. Al Santoli, a senior adviser to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, California Republican, and one of the most informed China experts on Capitol Hill, points to a recent joint CIA-FBI report to Congress on Communist Chinese espionage that says, The Chinese government continues to seek influence in Congress through various means, including inviting congressional members to the PRC [Peoples Republic of China], lobbying ethnic Chinese voters and prominent U.S. citizens and engaging U.S. business interests to weigh in on issues of mutual concern. The intelligence report appears to refer to elder statesmen with decades-long business ties to Chinas Communist leaders and to corporate giants such as the Boeing Co., Chrysler Corp., General Motors and Motorola that have made an indelible mark on the China-policy debate. When American business lobbied Congress on China policy in the past, one could believe that corporate America was not doing Chinas bidding but rather was protecting its own interests, writes Mann. With the lobby campaign against reaffirming the U.S. security relationship with Taiwan, he argues, this distinction is not so clear anymore. Seduced by visions of selling consumer products to 1 billion Chinese, many business figures, including former national-security leaders who built personal relations with Communist officials, have moved from simply pushing policies that would increase trade with China to becoming, in effect, agents of influence for the Beijing regime. One of the most prominent is Boeing, the civilian jetliner manufacturer and Pentagon contractor. With potential 12-figure Chinese aircraft orders at stake, Boeings concern is understandable, as some of its critics admit. Beijing has exploited that concern to the hilt. If the company doesnt deliver political influence for the Communist government, Boeing chief international strategist Lawrence Clarkson told the Seattle Times in 1996, were toast. To ensure its 70 percent share of the Chinese airliner market, Boeing, in cooperation with other similarly motivated companies, pushed hard not only for Congress annually to renew most favored nation, or MFN, status for China, but to change the way the people of the United States view the corrupt one-party regime. In partnership with Chrysler, General Electric, Motorola and other blue-chip companies, Boeing launched a China Normalization Initiative in late 1995 and early 1996 to influence Congress from below by educating
