-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- >From TheNewAustralian http://www.newaus.com.au/asia147li.html {{<Begin>}} Return to The New Australian Li Ka-Shing, the PLA's front man, hits Australia By Peter Zhang No. 147, 13-19 March 2000 Li Ka-Shing (multi-billionaire, unofficial Beijing Government minister and PLA agent) has received a warm welcome in Australia. It appears that Li is looking to invest heavily in Australian infrastructure, particularly electricity generation and telecommunications. Ordinarily I would advise any country to welcome a foreign investor. But Li is no ordinary investor. Just as British imperialism followed trade, Chinese military intelligence always follows Li. This is something that Australians should bear in mind, though I very much doubt that the country's mainstream media would be too concerned given its evident left-wing leanings. Li Beijing's connections are hardly a state secret. He had been a close friend of Gen. Ji Shengde, former military intelligence director of the PLA, who was recently arrested for corruption, and is still close to Gen. Xiong Guangkai who had been Gen. Ji's superior. He is equally close to Jiang Zemin. Most telling of all, probably, is Li's corrupt real estate dealings with the brutal Chen Xitong who is infamous for the instrumental role he played in the Tiananmen Square massacre. Many of Li's ‘commercial' activities tell us much about the kind of ‘businessman' he really is. Li's eldest son, Victor, has launched Pacific Century CyberWorks. This is quite a coincidence because there was also an investment firm called Pacific Century Group which was supposed to use US money to finance electricity generating plants in mainland China. The company was revealed by intelligence to be a front whose principle owners were Li Ka-Shing and a Macau-based triad gangster called Ng Lapseng whose main source of income is drug-running, prostitution, including child prostitution. He is also involved in extortion, smuggling illegal immigrants, loansharking, money laundering, etc. Ng is also deeply implicated in the Clintons' fundraising scandals and had personal relations with the Clintons who invited him to the White House on a number of occasions. It says a great deal about the media that it did not report the fact that the Clintons had taken several hundred thousand dollars, not to mention the other Triad contributions, from a gangster who peddles child prostitutes. This creep also has an interest in Ang-Du International which is known to participate in the abduction of young Asian females, even children, for sale to the region's brothels. Ang-Du was also used to channel funds into the Clintons' election campaign on behalf of Lapseng's associates. So why has Li associated with a known drug-running Triad pimp? Lapseng is not the only gangster with whom the enterprising Mr Li has had dealings. Li joined with Henry Fok and Robert Kwok to form the CITIC (China International Trust Investment Company). The Hong Kong police and British and American intelligence have reported that the charming Henry is a prominent member of the 14K Triad and enjoys the patronage of the PLA while Robert, also a Triad member, is believed to be engaged in the Burmese heroin trade. (I sincerely hope that Robert Kwok's family is not the same one that owns a premium piece of real estate in Melbourne, Australia.) CITIC created a subsidiary called Poly Technologies which was run by Wang Jun, a CITIC director, and He Ping, Deng Xiaoping's son-in-law. The company's American subsidiaries were closed in 1996 when it was caught trying to smuggle 2000 AK47s into California to be sold to LA drug gangs. A tip off by Janet Reno's agency enabled Robert Ma, Poly's front man in the deal, to flee the country just ahead of an FBI arrest warrant. (I do hope that this particular Ma is not connected to the Ma family that has heavy real estate investments in Sydney, Australia). It will be no surprise to learn that Wang Jun has strong business links to Lapseng. I strongly suggest that before any Australians become financially involved with Li they take care acquaint themselves with a little of his financial history, including accusations of insider trading. Then there is also the notorious case of Beijing Enterprises Holding LTD in which about a billion dollars in stock evaporated. The business was basically a fraud whose shares were artificially pumped up and then dumped. This caper destroyed one bank and seriously damaged several others. And who was senior figure in Beijing Enterprises? Why Mr Li. I'm not asking Australians to be paranoid; not every Chinese civilian company is an instrument of the Ministry of State Security or the PLA. But Li is. I wrote sometime ago that it was Beijing's long-term goal to exercise hegemony over the Asian-Pacific region, including New Zealand and Australia, by driving the US back to Hawaii. Once it believes it is succeeding in this goal it will begin to demand of Australia that it choose between its Asian friends — meaning Beijing — and the US. 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