Radar sale to China stopped

Washington Times ^

[esryle]

The Bush administration blocked the sale of an advanced radar system to China and might purchase at least one of the stealth aircraft-detecting systems to offset the loss, U.S. and European officials said. China had sought to buy several high-technology Vera radar from a Czech Republic manufacturer in the past five months, said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

[esryle]

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[BenLurkin]

Clintoon would'a played along with the Reds (for a price).

What's wrong with Dubya that he has such a clumsy foreign policy?

/sarcasm

[Alberta's Child]

Clintoon would'a played along with the Reds (for a price).

Don't laugh. Richard Perle, the controversial former head of the Defense Policy Board in the Bush administration and one of the leading advocates for the war in Iraq, resigned in disgrace after his lobbying work on behalf of telecommunications company Global Crossing was exposed. He was trying to secure Defense Department approval for the sale of Global Crossing's trans-oceanic fiber optic assets to a Red Chinese front company called Hutchinson Wampoa.

[BenLurkin]

Ah yes - Hutchinson Wampoa. The PLA front which Clintoon, in effect, handed the Panama Canal to.

Many people forget that the first test of the Bush Presidency (after Algore's sore loser tantrum)was ther downing of a U.S. Navy airplane by the Red Chinese.

[JesseHousman]

...Hutchinson Wampoa. The PLA front which Clintoon, in effect, handed the Panama Canal to.

That distinction belongs to Jimmie Karter; but Klinton would concur that it was an intelligent thing for a nation to do: give away a piece of real estate to a nation that wasn't even in existance at the time Americans slaved and died to build it! The "conservative" editor of the National Review thought it a proper thing to do, and I thought it proper when I cancelled my subscription to that neo-conservative mag.

Now the PRC is running the canal and those aren't Tinker Toys in those containers being shipped in.

[DTA]

By waging an unnecessary war on behalf of Albanian terrorists BJ Clinton uncesessary put the stealth technology at risk and provided an opportunity to show showed how F117A can be detected with 1950's Czech radar and shot down.

Obsolescence of the stealth technology - another BJ Clinton legacy.

[Alberta's Child]

Part of the rationale for giving away the Panama Canal was that it was largely obsolete. Many U.S. naval vessels outgrew the canal decades ago, and each successive generation of ocean-going cargo vessels is larger than the last; today, most major maritime carriers are using ships that can't fit through the Panama Canal.

This was one of the underlying issues in the 1976 peace accords between Israel and Egypt that isn't commonly known. The United States insisted on having the Sinai peninsula returned to Egypt -- specifically because of the understanding that the Suez Canal (for some very interesting reasons) would emerge as one of the most vital sea routes to U.S. interests in the world.

[JesseHousman]

Part of the rationale for giving away the Panama Canal was that it was largely obsolete.

The Chinese Communists couldn't establish a beachhead in Cuber (as the Russians did) because this time America wouldn't stand for such a tactic a second time. (Although why we continue to put up with this criminal state just 90 miles off our shore should escape most of us.)

The Canal Zone was an excellent subterfuge as by the time the Chinese had the proper agents fronted and in control we'd be too busy scurrying after Islamic killers who have been planted and have infiltrated our society for decades.

So, the Panama Canal being obsolete is mute to the larger argument that, again, thanks to our vapidly stupid or complicit politcal class, America for once in danger of being checkmated.

[Alberta's Child]

There was no need for the Chinese Communists to establish a "beachhead" in Cuba, or in Panama. They've got all the beachhead they need in Los Angeles and New York City.

[JesseHousman]

They've got all the beachhead they need in Los Angeles and New York City.

Chinatowns and Chinese restaurants don't count as beachheads.

Actually, the Japanese own more important real estate in California than any other Asian nation.

[inflation]

True, but Japan didn't threaten to nuke LA. china did.

[gathersnomoss]

Clinton's liberal plans to level the playing field have hit a brick wall. Go Bush.

[JesseHousman]

That's true, but it hasn't anything to do with my point that the PRC needed a base from which to clandestinely operate in this hemisphere.

[hedgetrimmer]

Chinese restaurants don't count as beachheads

In Santa Cruz County, CA, owners of chinese restaurants smuggle AK-47's via coastline drops. Is that a beachhead?

[JesseHousman]

Is that a beachhead?

I daresay.

[GigaDittos]

Damn right!!!! Slam dunk those Chinese bastards.

[Tommyjo]

"1950's Czech radar" Stealth does not mean invisibility to RADAR. It requres the mission planners to give the aircraft the best possible route in order to weave its way through defensive networks. Low frequency radar can detect aircraft such as the F-117 but tracking it is the hard part. It had nothing to do with "1950's Czech radar", but old technology low frequency Russian RADAR which enabled the SA-3 'GOA' battery a chance to barrage fire their weapons. RADARs such us these can be mobile and being economic with their usage they can spring suprises such as the F-117 shoot down during 1999.

http://ww2.pstripes.osd.mil/01/jun01/ed060301h.html