Posted on 08/18/2003 3:50:33 PM PDT by truthandlife
August 8:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said this week that China will be the greatest espionage threat to North America during the next 10 years to 15 years, reports Canada’s Asian Pacific Post. FBI Director Robert Mueller told the United States Congress that China has more than 3,000 "front" companies in America coordinating direct espionage efforts. Some of the thousands of Chinese visitors, students and business people who visit the United States each year also have a government intelligence task to perform, authorities say. "Left unchecked, such a situation could greatly undermine U.S. national security and U.S. military and economic advantage [in the Pacific region]," Mueller told Congress.
In Canada, intelligence reports indicate the number of Chinese front companies to be between 300 and 500. But unlike America, Canada’s China experts say the political climate in Ottawa is not conducive to cracking down on the threat. "Virtually all the recent prime ministers and Paul Martin – who is likely to be the next prime minister – have strong connections to China on personal, business and political fronts," said an intelligence analyst specializing in East Asian affairs. "They find it difficult to understand this threat... some just deny it," he said. For former Canadian Foreign Service officer Brian McAdam, this week's FBI warning reads like a passage out of a report he produced for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). McAdam worked on "Project Sidewinder" which was conducted by the CSIS and aided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police between 1994 and 1996. That study mirrors this week's FBI assertions that China poses the most significant threat to North America.
August 12:
Citing national-security concerns, two Democratic lawmakers are trying to stop the transfer of materials from an Indiana factory that produces critical technology used in the guidance systems of U.S. "smart bombs" to the People's Republic of China, reports WorldNetDaily.com. The Magnequench factory (originally known as UGIMAG) was sold in August 2000 to a consortium that included Chinese interests. The factory is responsible for producing 80 percent of the rare-earth permanent magnets used in the guidance systems of U.S. smart bombs, according to lawmakers. On Aug. 1, the office of Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-Ind.), issued a statement indicating that he and Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) were mounting a "last-ditch" effort to halt the “transfer of sensitive defense technology to the People's Republic of China.”
August 13:
A new Pentagon report states that China has improved its missile force with U.S technology, reports Charles Smith in Newsmax.com. The improvements enable Chinese missiles to now accurately strike the U.S. military base at Okinawa with "satellite-aided guidance" navigation technology obtained from America. The Chinese army (PLA) developed a new version of its DF-15 missile – also known as the CSS-6 – guided by advanced satellite navigation systems.
According to the Pentagon report, China is well on its way toward deploying an estimated 1,000 advanced ballistic missiles by the end of the decade. The People's Liberation Army has over 450 missiles pointed at Taiwan and is currently adding new missiles at a rate of over 75 a year. Defense intelligence sources expect China to increase the rate of missile production to 100 a year by 2005. The Pentagon noted that the ballistic missile trend poses "a growing and significant challenge" to the U.S., Taiwan and other Pacific allies.
"These missile attacks most likely would be high-volume, precision strikes against priority military and political targets, including air defense facilities, airfields, Taiwan's C2 infrastructure, and naval facilities," notes the Pentagon report. "Exclusive Taiwan reliance on active missile defenses and associated BM/C3I, however, will not sufficiently offset the overwhelming advantage in offensive missiles which Beijing is projected to possess in 2005," warns the Pentagon.
The stock market is up. Why shouldn't we let the Chicoms build better missles if they can do it cheaper? If that means laying off defense workers, so be it. They can learn a new trade. We can hire Chinese soldiers at a fraction of the cost of training and providing our own. We should look into that next. Why should I have to pay more for my defense than I have to? Let a Chinaman die on the cheap - saves me a buck, and saves the life of a burger flipper who would otherwise be wearing a uniform.
Chinese products suck, and so does your plan.
These firms are big on co-op's and university affiliations. They have tentacles inside all the manufacturing firms of raw product, in-process materials, and finished product. If you plant a confidential document as part of a meeting (which contains false information) you can watch it turn up within ten days in Indonesia, China,. Them Riyadi boys don't let anyone wipe their ass without toilet paper made from cloned American paper machines, processing chemicals, software, hardware, and engineering specs, and American taxpayer money to fund the start-up.
If some agency went to the trouble to count 3000 front companies, it can't be so hard to hit the print key can it?
I think you accurately described the bigger picture.
"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains." --Thomas Jefferson to Horatio G. Spafford, 1814. ME 14:119
Old Tom got it.
"Would you plefer that check written to cash in US dollar or Yuan Mr. Senator?"
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