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March 28, 2006

China's Trojan Nukes

Lest another critical matter of security be obfuscated by the illegals’ mess…

Another critically important national security issue to call our senators and representatives about:

Lest we forget, China is poised to take control of scanning inbound overseas cargo entering US ports for nuclear bombs.

That’s right, the same communist regime which declared that “War with the US is inevitable” and the same communist regime that threatened to nuke LA (which would no doubt cause a war with Mexico) has been given a green light to be the fox to watch the hen house.

Additionally, they will have access to sophisticated detection equipment - equipment they could theoretically figure out how to defeat for other scenarios.

The still pro-China-heavy CIA says it has no worries about this, which of course is how you know it's problematic. In fact, there are still many, many in CIA and State who are red-teamers, or those favorable to the regime.

Hutchison-Whampoa, a Hong Kong firm run by billionaire Ki Ka-Shing will get the contract to do what is hundreds of times more of a risk to us than the now-defunct Dubai port deal. And with China's (and Russia's) tight relationship with a budding nuclear Iran, could "oops" be the vehicle of plausible deniability that allows an Iranian nuke to enter the country? Even the CIA got this one right in a report to Congress in 2003.

Indeed, the beginning of this article from a Chinese publication says it all:

The military implementation of the George W Bush administration's unilateralist foreign policy is creating monumental changes in the world's geostrategic alliances. The most significant of these changes is the formation of a new triangle comprised of China, Iran and Russia.

Hutchison-Whampoa is a PLA robot, catering to nothing more than the strategic interests of the Chinese Communist Party. This is the same company that bribed Panamanian leaders under Clinton’s watch in the 1990’s so that they could gain control of the Panama Canal and the strategic ports and bases located there, from where China could easily conceal short-range nuclear missiles aimed anywhere in the continental US.

With this latest deal however, China doesn’t need those missiles anymore. They not only control the Trojan horse, they control the city gates through which it will pass.

From Worldnet Daily (linked at top):

''Li Ka-Shing is pretty close to a lot of senior leaders of the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party,'' Larry M. Wortzel, head of a U.S. government commission that studies China, told the Associated Press.

U.S. officials also insist the CIA has no security concerns about Hutchison's port operations, which would be supervised by Bahamian customs officers. If the equipment detects any nuclear device, it would set off alarms monitored by Bahamian inspectors [note here that Hutchison Whampoa has done huge business with the Bahamas and in fact has a large operations facility there, so is there too much trust, or, could someone be bribed?] and by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in Virginia [note this customs oversight is off-site and therefore more vulnerable to having data altered, particularly under an apathetic nose].

''The equipment operates itself,'' said Bryan Wilkes, a spokesman for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration said, according to AP.

Then why do we need the Chinese?

As WorldNetDaily reported in 2003, declassified U.S. government intelligence reports uncovered by the public-interest group Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act portrayed Li's relationship with the Chinese government as close and influential.

A U.S. Army South "Intelligence Update" stated, "Li is directly connected to Beijing and is willing to use his business influence to further the aims of the Chinese government."

Regarding Hutchison Whampoa's controversial takeover of the Panama Canal, the intelligence report stated, "Li's interest in the [Panama] canal is not only strategic, but also as a means for outside financial opportunities for the Chinese government."

Which begs the question yet again, when sanctions and embargos worked against Cuba, South Africa and the Soviet Union why not China? Is greed overtaking good foreign policy? Of course it is.

An "Intelligence Assessment" from the U.S. Southern Command's Joint Intelligence Center stated Li "has extensive business ties in Beijing and has compelling financial reasons to maintain a good relationship with China's leadership."

In addition, Li was the founder and a board member of the China International Trust and Investment Corporation, or CITIC. In a 1997 report entitled, "Chinese Military Commerce and U.S. National Security," the RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy reported that CITIC acted as a "shell" or front operation on behalf of China's Peoples' Liberation Army.

The Judicial Watch complaint concluded that the billionaire is "an agent of the government of the Peoples' Republic of China."

This deal must be stopped at all costs.

To add insult to injury, some no-doubt leftover Clintonistas in the State Department have decided it would be a smart idea to buy 11 thousand computers from China. Computers of course made with stolen US technology, but that's beside the point. As an IT professional, I can assure you it is bad and it is not the path to good security. The Epoch Times asks if China can sustain an arms race. The answer is no, but we can sustain it for China - and are.

The late Chinese dictator Deng Xiaoping once said with respect to it's climb to challenge the United States and defeat her, "We must bide our time and hide our capabilities". But why hide them when so much of Washington is in denial?

Call or e-mail your US Senator here

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UPDATE:

A good related article by Newsmax

A question or two from Voteswagen blog

Posted by Martin at March 28, 2006 12:37 AM