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Date: August 15, 2007 8:38:28 PM PDT
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Subject: Neocon Lust for Oil "Radicalizing" Russia & China into
Military Enemies of U.S.
By 2008, with Putin gone, Russia is expected to change a
westernized fascist-nationalist autocracy willing to ally itself
with Nato against the dual threat posed by (1) Islamic radicals and
(2) their biggest rival, China.
Next year you may even see an "Orange Revolution" in Moscow handing
Boris Berezovsky the presidency.
The real problem is China, as ethnically and culturally out of sync
with the West as the Muslim masses.
http://www.arabamericannews.com/newsarticle.php?articleid=9498
"On February 11, the Washington Post reported that Dick Cheney's
national security advisor John Hanna considers 2007 "the year of
Iran."
A central player in the making of the Bush administration's
deceptive case for the invasion of Iraq, Hannah said that a U.S.
assault on Iran was "a real possibility" this year.
"The Bush administration knows that neither of its two closest
military rivals — Russia and China — will back Iran in an armed
conflict with the superpower. While they will block a force
resolution against Iran at the UN, they will stand clear once U.S.
attack becomes imminent.
"Last December the Bush administration succeeded in persuading the
United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution imposing
economic sanctions on Iran for supposedly threatening international
peace with nuclear activities. This has set the stage for Bush to
demand that the Security Council sanction the use of force against
Iran.
When Security Council members Russia and China (inevitably) reject
that demand, Bush may well (on the model of the 2002-2003 run to
the invasion of Iraq) cite earlier resolutions to justify direct
U.S. military action. "We've done all we can through the inadequate
channels of international law and the UN," Bush will claim (in
essence) "but now the time has come for us to act" against an Evil
State that the U.N. itself has identified as 'a danger to world
peace.'"
http://newsblaze.com/story/20070731170010payn.nb/newsblaze/OPINIONS/
Opinions.html
The Iran-China Military Axis of World War III is giving more
indications their preparations for strategic (military) cooperation
are complete, and that all they require is a regional crisis, a
war, to take advantage of in order to display it in the field
against a mutual enemy, which is of course India.
This is an extension of Beijing's strategic relations with Pakistan
China established in 1951, just one year after China's invasion of
Tibet and just five years after their invasion of East Turkestan,
which China promptly renamed Xinjiang province. This could easily
be called the "Belong to China" foreign policy since World War II
instituted by Mao Tse Tung after he consolidated power and it
became the greatest threat to security on the Asian mainland.
Beijing announced it still has more invasions in mind when China
Ambassdor to India, Sun Yuxi, proclaimed last November that
northeast India-Arunachal Pradesh is Chinese territory. The
following month Beijing conducted ground forces maneuvers with
Islamabad just west of Kashmir. It conformed to the pattern of
China's imperial military tradition of conducting invasions until
they are stopped-defeated as they finally were when serious border
fighting began with the Soviet Union in the mid-1960s and nearly
became a nuclear war in 1975, which was nearly begun by Moscow.
The West that year convinced Russia, that though it supported
Moscow's position, which the West had been investing in and
financing for centuries, the Soviets should not use nuclear weapons
to end the war and that is why I always suspected one of the
reasons Moscow invaded Afghanistan in 1979 was to outflank China.
The Soviet Union withdrew 10 years later because of the summit in
Beijing between Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev and China's
Central Government due to the emergence of radical Islam because of
the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran under the Ayatollah Khomeini.
The serious instability the beliefs he generated had the very real
potential to destabilize all of Central Asia and threaten the
West's ability to have access to resources in the region through
Russia, so Moscow withdrew from the entire region at the end of the
Cold War, 1990, to let the whole region go up in smoke, knowing it
would give Russia's its excuse to attack the center and base of
region's greatest threat and eventually, if need be Iran. That has
led Moscow into wars in the Caucasus, fighting groups supported by
Ankara-Tehran.
Instead of viewing radical Islam as a threat [as Russia did],
Beijing decided to work with it and arm it with nuclear warheads
and ballistic missiles, either directly or through North Korea.
Despite the occasional uprisings the beliefs could inspire in
Xinjiang province, which is almost entirely Islamic, Beijing knew
Islamic extremism was more of a strategic partner to them than a
problem. This was just an extension of Beijing's strategic
relations with Islamabad. As a brief example of how Beijing
intended to ultimately use its military support of Pakistan, China
invaded India for one month, October 1962 into November, mostly in
India's northeastern province of Arunachal Pradesh. The fighting
extended south into Assam state near the Bay of Bengal. As a result
of China's successes, India fired its Defense Minister. Therefore,
China knew the foreign policy of Islamic governments that supported
the Jihad, had the potential to damage three of China's rivals, the
West-India-Russia and make it difficult for another rival, Japan,
to have access to raw materials through out Eurasia. That is why
China sold the intermediate range CSS-2 missile to the House of
Saud in the mid-1980s. (Reuters Feb. 15, 2004) The missile has a
2,500 mile (4,000 km) range and can strike all of India.
It is now reported the names of some of the officials Iran Deputy
Foreign Minister for Asia - Pacific Affairs, Mehdi Safari is
meeting, Dai Bingguo, China Vice-Foreign Minister and Li Zhaoxing,
China Deputy Foreign Minister for Eastern Europe, Central Asia and
Manager of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Bingguo stated
at the meeting, "The Chinese government and its President give
priority to the strategic relations with Iran. China underscores
the importance of its own independent-seeking policy."
This is as close Beijing will ever come to publicly admitting the
real purpose of its military support of the Islamic world and that
it is acting strictly in its own national interests, which coincide
with Iran. At the meeting with Zhaoxing, Safari stated Iran is able
to draw up an energy charter to cover the whole of Asia. This is
obviously Tehran's way of saying that not only do they believe
their war effort will be extremely successful, but that China's
energy needs will be met and that is the foundation, the purpose of
their military axis.
In an expression of the extreme concern of Allied governments to
near completion of Iran-China's preparations and planning, the
largest naval maneuvers since the India/Pakistan war of 1971 will
take place in the Bay of Bengal in September. Well intended as this
concern is I doubt it will have any impact on the war on the
ground. The Allied navies participating are India-U.S.-Australia-
Japan-Singapore.
The Allied joint naval command does however have the potential of
intercepting any advanced weaponry military-industrial services in
China may attempt to send by the sea to Iran.
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China-Iran Trade Surge Vexes U.S.
Technology Shipments Frustrate Bid
To Curb Tehran's Nuclear Program
By NEIL KING JR.
Wall Street Journal, July 27, 2007; Page A4
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118547206362379113.html?
mod=googlenews_wsj
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government says a handful of Chinese
companies have ramped up shipments of sensitive military
technologies to Iran, part of a surge in China-Iran trade that is
complicating efforts to apply pressure on Tehran to rein in its
nuclear program.
The State Department and its embassy in Beijing have lodged
"numerous" formal protests with the Chinese government since the
start of the year over the shipments, U.S. officials said. They
said the goods have included a range of specialty metals and other
dual-use items that could aid Tehran's missile and nuclear
programs, with some cargoes going to Iran's main ballistic-missile
producer. The U.S. argues that such trade is barred under a
December United Nations sanctions resolution on Iran.
The Chinese government declined to respond to questions about the
U.S. allegations. It has previously accused the U.S. of placing
sanctions on Chinese companies based on scant evidence.
The growing dispute over China's burgeoning trade with Iran -- its
exports to Iran in the first six months of this year surged 70%
from 2006, to $3.2 billion -- comes at a sensitive time. The U.N.
Security Council, which includes China as one of its five veto-
wielding permanent members, is weighing whether to push ahead on a
third resolution to impose tougher trade and financial sanctions on
Iran over its uranium-enrichment work.
The U.S., Britain and some other European countries allege that
Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons under the guise of a civilian
power program, a charge Tehran denies. The U.N. has already imposed
two sets of sanctions on Iran to get it to halt its nuclear
program. These measures have ordered a freeze of the international
assets of a major Iranian bank and 10 entities connected to the
country's nuclear and missile programs, and imposed an embargo on
Iranian arms exports, among other steps. Far from backing off, Iran
has pressed ahead with its nuclear program.
The debate over how to proceed with Iran is likely to take center
stage when world leaders meet in September for the annual U.N.
General Assembly. China and Russia, another permanent Security
Council member, appear increasingly leery of supporting sanctions
that would strike at companies more central to Iran's economy or
banking system.
China's controversial shipments to Iran, which coincide with a
furor over defective Chinese exports to the U.S., also raise
questions about Beijing's ability to control the transfer of
potential weapons materials to countries under international scrutiny.
The U.S. has long accused China of supplying nuclear technology to
countries such as North Korea, Pakistan, Iran and Libya. In recent
years, though, Beijing has joined international nonproliferation
agreements and imposed tougher rules on exports.
"This is no longer a government policy problem," said Joseph
Cirincione, an arms-control expert at the liberal Center for
American Progress. "It is a matter of China actually implementing
the export controls it now has in place. It is a problem that many
countries have."
In a classified incident this year, U.S. intelligence agencies
tipped off authorities in Singapore about a container that was
transiting through its port from China en route to Iran. Inside the
container, Singaporean customs agents found large quantities of a
chemical compound used to make solid fuel for ballistic missiles,
U.S. and other international officials said.
More disturbing, U.S. officials said, was the intended recipient:
the Shahid Bagheri Industrial Group, which is responsible for
Iran's efforts to develop long-range missiles. The company was
among the 10 entities targeted in the set of U.N. sanctions levied
on Iran in December.
U.S. officials declined to name the Chinese company that was
allegedly behind that shipment or the other companies allegedly
behind other recent shipments. The officials said most of the
questionable Chinese exports to Iran have come from five or six
Chinese firms, all of which are under unilateral U.S. sanctions for
allegedly shipping missile components and other restricted military
equipment to Iran. Since 2005, the U.S. has imposed unilateral
sanctions on nine Chinese companies believed to be engaged in such
trade. The sanctions bar U.S. companies from doing business with
any of these companies.
Companies the Bush administration considers "serial proliferators"
to Iran include Beijing Alite Technologies Co., China Great Wall
Industry Corp. and China National Precision Machinery Import/Export
Corp. An official from Beijing Alite said the company's products
"have nothing to do with military weapons" and that it stopped
trading with Iran in 2003. A China Great Wall spokeswoman said the
company "never had any business relationship with Iran." An officer
at China National Precision declined to comment.
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