Boycott China - please read - your life may depend on it

[Rick Horowitz <ri...@yahoo.com>]

Hello Everyone,

The following speech, reprinted from www.newsmax.com, was made this Tuesday 
night by U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of California. I urge you all to 
read every word of this speech. I have been aware of much of the budding 
catastrophe we face regarding China, yet have not seen the issues 
articulated with anything near the clarity that Mr. Rohrabacher does in 
this speech.

My wife and I began boycotting Chinese-made goods about a year ago in 
recognition of the reasons outlined here. I urge every one of you to 
forward this message to everyone in your email list, and begin boycotting 
Chinese goods immediately.

My own brief summary of the issues:

1. Our extreme trade deficit vs. China (nearly $100B per year now) has been 
used for a massive military buildup, with the U.S. as the ultimate target.
2. Russia is selling their most advanced arms to China, capable of 
destroying our aircraft carriers, including a supersonic torpedo technology 
that is far beyond anything that we have and for which we have no defense.
3. Our leading defense contractors, including Loral, Boeing, Hughes, 
Motorola, and others have sold advanced military technology to China over 
the past few years, including technology that now enables Chinese 
nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles to accurately hit 
American cities, something they were not able to do prior to this transfer 
of technology.
4. The majority of the "partner" companies of U.S. ventures in China are in 
fact owned and operated by the PLA (the People's Liberation Army - the 
Chinese army). These are not commercial interests.
5. The U.S. government (read you and I) have been providing tax breaks to 
American companies to close up factories in the U.S. and reopen them in 
China. These factories transfer advanced technology in many cases, put 
Americans out of work, and provide cash to the Chinese to further their 
military expansion.

I hope these points and the following reprinted speech make you think long 
and hard about our position regarding China, and that you:

1. Start boycotting Chinese-made goods immediately
2. Send this message to everyone on your email list. Please don't be 
embarrassed to take a stand on this. I assure you, it is not my imagination 
that China poses a significant threat to our safety and future, and we are 
giving them the money, technology, and weaponry to carry out their many 
threats already made against our country.

Here's one informational link...I'm sure you can find may others yourself.

PLEASE read Mr. Rohrabacher's speech, below:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/chinamissiles_990409.html
....includes, "A Chinese official hinted at launching a nuclear weapon
at Los Angeles in 1996, when U.S. warships confronted
China over missile firings near Taiwan."

Make no mistake about it. The Chinese government is a dictatorship, and is 
very dangerous.

Sincerely,

Rick Horowitz

Rohrabacher Slams U.S. Aid to China

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher
Thursday, April 26, 2001

Editor's note: This is the text of a speech on the House floor by
U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., Tuesday night.

Mr. Speaker, one month ago, the Communist regime that controls
the mainland of China attacked an American surveillance aircraft
while it was in international waters. After being knocked out of the
sky, 24 American military personnel, the crew of the surveillance
craft, were held hostage for nearly 2 weeks. The Communist
Chinese blamed us and would not return the crew until the United
States was humiliated before the world.

Wake up, America. What is going on here? Large financial interests
in our country whose only goal is exploiting the cheap, near-slave
labor of China have been leading our country down the path to
catastrophe. How much more proof do we need that the so-called
engagement theory is a total failure?

Our massive investment in China, pushed and promoted by
American billionaires and multinational corporations, has created
not a more peaceful, democratic China, but an aggressive
nuclear-armed bully that now threatens the world with its hostile acts
and proliferation. Do the Communist Chinese have to murder
American personnel or attack the United States or our allies with
their missiles before those who blithesomely pontificate about the
civilizing benefits of building the Chinese economy will admit that
China for a decade has been going in the opposite direction than
predicted by the so-called ``free traders.''

'We Have Made a Monstrous Mistake'

We have made a monstrous mistake, and if we do not face reality
and change our fundamental policies, instead of peace, there will be
conflict. Instead of democratic reform, we will see a further
retrenchment of a regime that is run by gangsters and thugs, the
world's worst human rights abusers.

Let us go back to basics. The mainland of China is controlled by a
rigid, Stalinistic Communist party. The regime is committing
genocide in Tibet. It is holding as a captive the designated
successor of the Dalai Lama, who is the spiritual leader of the
Tibetan people. By the way, this person, the designated new leader,
is a little boy. They are holding hostage a little boy in order to
terrorize the Tibetan people. The regime is now, at this moment,
arresting thousands of members of the Falun Gong, which is nothing
more threatening than a meditation and yoga society. Christians of
all denominations are being brutalized unless they register with the
state and attend controlled churches. Just in the last few days, there
has been a round-up of Catholics who were practicing their faith
outside of state control. Now they are in a Chinese prison.

There are no opposition parties in China. There is no free press in
China. China is not a free society under anyone's definition. More
importantly, it is not a society that is evolving toward freedom.

President Richard Nixon first established our ties with the
Communist Chinese in 1972 at the height of the Cold War. That was
a brilliant move. At that particular moment, it was a brilliant move. It
enabled us to play the power of one dictatorship off the power of
another dictatorship. We played one against the other at a time
when we had been weakened by the Vietnam War and at a time
when Soviet Russia was on the offensive.

During the Reagan years, we dramatically expanded our ties to
China, but do not miss the essential fact that justified that
relationship and made it different than what has been going on
these last 10 years. China was at that time, during the Reagan
administration, evolving toward a freer, more open society, a
growing democratic movement was evident, and the United States,
our government and our people, fostered this movement. Under
President Reagan, we brought tens of thousands of students here,
and we sent teams from our National Endowment for Democracy
there. We were working with them to build a more democratic
society, and it looked like that was what was going to happen. All of
this ended, of course, in Tiananmen Square over 10 years ago.

'Tanks to Wipe Out the Opposition'

Thousands of Chinese gathered there in Tiananmen Square in
Beijing to demand a more open and democratic government. For a
moment, it appeared like there had been an historic breakthrough.
Then, from out of the darkness came battle-hardened troops and
tanks to wipe out the opposition. The people who ordered that
attack are still holding the reins of power in China today and, like all
other criminals who get away with scurrilous deeds, they have
become emboldened and arrogant.

My only lament is that had Ronald Reagan been president during
that time of Tiananmen Square, things, I think, would have been
different; but he was not. Since that turn of events about 12 years
ago, things have been progressively worse. The repression is more
evident than ever. The belligerence and hostility of Beijing is even
more open. Underscoring the insanity of it all, the Communist
Chinese have been using their huge trade surplus with the United
States to upgrade their military and expand its warfighting
capabilities.

Communist China's arsenal of jets, its ballistic missiles, its naval
forces have all been modernized and reinforced. In the last 2 years,
they have purchased destroyers from the former Soviet Union.
These destroyers are armed with Sunburn missiles. These were
systems that were designed during the Cold War by the Russians to
destroy American aircraft carriers.

Yes, the Communist Chinese are arming themselves to sink
American aircraft carriers, to kill thousands upon thousands of
American sailors. Make no mistake about it, China's military might
now threatens America and world peace. If there is a crisis in that
part of the world again, which there will be, we can predict that some
day, unlike the last crisis when American aircraft carriers were able
to become a peaceful element to bring moderation of judgment
among the players who were in conflict, instead, American aircraft
carriers will find themselves vulnerable, and an American President
will have to face the choice of risking the lives of all of those sailors
on those aircraft carriers.

Mr. Speaker, how is it, then, that a relatively poor country can afford
to enlarge its military in such a way, to the point that it can threaten a
superpower such as the United States of America?

Even as China's slide into tyranny and militarism continued in these
last 12 years, the United States government has permitted a totally
indefensible economic rules of engagement to guide our
commercial ties with the mainland of China.

While China was going in the right direction, permitting that country
to have a large trade advantage and thus providing a large reserve
of hard currency may or may not have made sense, as long as
China was going in the right direction and going towards
democracy. Maybe we would like to build up a freer China that way.

It 'Makes No Sense' to Help Arm China

But it made no sense, and it still makes no sense, for the United
States to permit a country that is sinking even deeper into tyranny
and into anti-Western hostility to have a huge trade surplus as a
resource to call upon to meet their military needs.

In effect, the Communist Chinese have been using the tens of
billions of dollars of trade surplus with the United States each year to
build their military power and military might so some day the
Communist Chinese might be able to kill millions of our people, or at
least to threaten us to do that in order to back us down into defeat
without ever coming to a fight.

We have essentially been arming and equipping our worst potential
enemy and financing our own destruction. How could we let such a
crime against the security of our country happen? Well, it was
argued by some very sincere people that free trade would bring
positive change to China, and that engagement would civilize the
Communist regime.

Even as evidence stacked upon more evidence indicated that
China was not liberalizing, that just the opposite was happening, the
barkers for open markets kept singing their song:
``Most-favored-nation status, just give us this and things will get
better.'' It was nonsense then and it is nonsense today. But after all
that has happened, one would think that the shame factor would
silence these eternal optimists.

Perhaps I am a bit sensitive because, first and foremost, let me
state unequivocally that I consider myself a free trader. Yes, I believe
in free trade between free people. What we should strive for is to
have more and more open trade with all free and democratic
countries, or countries that are heading in the right direction.

I am thus positively inclined towards President Bush's efforts to
establish a free trade zone among the democratic countries in this
hemisphere. I will read the fine print, but my inclination is to facilitate
trade between democracies.

When I say, ``I will read the fine print,'' I will be especially concerned
with a free trade agreement, and I will be looking to that free trade
agreement to make sure that we have protection that our sensitive
technologies, which can be used for military purposes, will not be
transferred from the countries in our hemisphere, democratic
countries in our hemisphere, to China or to any other countries that
are potential enemies of the United States. This will have to be in
that free trade agreement.

There will have to be protections against the transfer of our
technology to our enemies. This is more of a concern following new
science and technology agreements that were signed by China and
countries like Brazil and Venezuela recently. Dictatorships are
always going to try to gain in any agreement that they have with us,
and they are always going to try to manipulate other agreements
and the rules of the game so they can stay in power.

When one applies the rules of free trade to a controlled society, as
we have been told over and over again, more trade, and let us have
free trade with China, that is going to make them more dependent
on us and they will be freer and more prosperous, more likely to be
peaceful people, well, if we apply the rules of free trade to a
dictatorship, ultimately what happens is that it is only free trade in
one direction.

On one end we have free people, a democratic people who are not
controlled by their government, and thus are basically unregulated
and are moving forward for their own benefit. But on the other end,
the trade will be controlled and manipulated to ensure that the
current establishment of that country stays in power.

Never has that been more evident than in America's dealing with
Communist China. In this case, it is so very blatant.

Those advocating most-favored-nation status, or as it is called now,
normal trade relations, have always based their case on the boon to
our country represented by the sale of American goods to ``the
world's largest market.'' That is their argument. Here on this floor
over and over and over again we heard people say, ``We have to
have these normal trade relations because we have to sell our
products, the products made by the American people, to the world's
largest market.''

This Is Free Trade?

That is a great pitch. The only problem is, it is not true. The sale of
U.S.-produced vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, autos, you name the
commercial item, are almost a non-factor in the trade relationship
between our countries. They are a minuscule amount of what is
considered the trade analysis of these two countries.

During these many years that we have given China
most-favored-nation status or normal trade relations, the power elite
there never lowered China's tariffs, and in fact increased the tariffs
in some areas, and erected barriers to prevent the sale of all but a
few U.S.-made products.

So while we had low tariffs, and intentionally brought our tariffs down
by most-favored-nation, for over a decade, even as China was
slipping more into tyranny, they were permitted to have high tariffs
and block our goods from coming in.

Beijing would not permit its own people to buy American-made
consumer items. They were not looking for a trade relationship with
the United States for their people to be able to buy American
products. That is not what they were looking for. That is not what it
was all about. They knew it, but yet our people were told over and
over and over and over and over again, ``Oh, we have to have
most-favored-nation status and normal trade relations in order to sell
American products to the world's largest market.''

That is not what was going on. It is not what the reality was. Instead,
the Communist Chinese were out to get American money, lots of it,
and American money to build factories, and they wanted the
Americans to build the factories with our technology and our money
in their country.

By the way, many of the factories that were built there were not built
in order to sell products to the Chinese people. Those factories
were built to export products to the United States.

The system that developed with the acquiescence of our
government, and this is no secret, what I am talking about tonight is
no secret to anyone except to the American people, our government
acquiesced to this for years, this policy put the American people, the
American working people, on the losing end of the transformational
action in the long run and sometimes even in the medium run.

The Chinese, because of our low tariffs, flooded our market with
their products, and blocked our goods from entering China, and all
the while we were hearing over and over again, ``We must have
most-favored-nation status in order to sell American products in the
world's largest market.''

They droned on year after year that most-favored-nation status was
so important to selling our products in the world's largest market. I
will just repeat that four or five times, because we must have heard it
a thousand times on this floor, and every time said, I am sure, in
complete sincerity by the people who were expressing it, but were
totally wrong. A very quick look into the statistics could have
indicated that.

Taiwan a Better Customer

By the way, just to let members know, the people of Taiwan,
numbering 22 million people, buy more from us annually than the 1.2
Chinese on the mainland. The Taiwanese, with 22 million people,
buy more consumer products from us than do 1.2 billion Chinese in
the mainland.

What has happened? What has happened as a result of these
nonsensical counterproductive policies, anti-American policies to
some degree, even though our own government has acquiesced in
them? It has resulted in a decline in domestic manufacturing
facilities in the United States. In other words, we have been closing
down our factories and putting our people out of work.

By the way, that does not mean the company is put out of business.
Those factories spring up someplace else. There is this flood of
Chinese products, the factory closes down, and guess where it
reopens? It reopens, yes, in Communist China, using our modern
technology and our capital, which is what the Chinese want to have
invested in their country.

Taxing Americans to Help Communism

Adding insult to injury, our working people, some of them, whose
jobs are being threatened by imports, our working people are being
taxed in order to provide taxpayer-subsidized loans and loan
guarantees for those corporate leaders wishing to close down their
operations in the United States and set up on the mainland of China.

Even if China was a free country, that would not be a good idea. I do
not believe we should be doing that even for democratic countries.
But for us to do that to a Communist dictatorship or any kind of
dictatorship, to have the American taxpayer subsidize these
investments, taking the risks on the shoulders of the American
taxpayer in order to build the economy of a vicious dictatorship, this
is insane. This is an insane policy. This is not free trade between
free people. It has nothing to do with free trade. It is subsidized trade
with subjugated people.

Companies that were permitted to sell their product to the Chinese
in these last 10 years, and there have been a few, companies like
Boeing who have attempted to sell airplanes to China, have found
themselves in a very bad predicament. As part of the deal enabling
them to sell planes now to Communist China, they have had to set
up manufacturing facilities in China to build the parts, or at least
some of the parts for the airplane.

Thus, over a period of time, what the Chinese have managed to do
is to have the United States just build factories and pay for them. Or,
as part of an agreement to sell the airplane, we have set up an
aerospace industry in China that will compete with our own
aerospace industry.

I come from California. I come from a district in which aerospace is
a mighty important part of our economy. I just want to thank all the
people who have permitted this policy, this blackmail of American
companies, to go on under the name, under the guise of free trade.
It is going to sell out our own national interest 10 years down the
road when these people will have a modern aerospace industry
building weapons and being able to undercut our own people. Gee,
thanks.

Making matters worse, many of the so-called companies in China
that are partnering with American industrialists, and American
industrialists, when they are going to build in China, are often
required to have a Chinese company as their partner as a
prerequisite to them investing in China, in short order these
so-called partners end up taking over the company. So many of
American companies have been there and have been burned.

Guess what, we look at these private Chinese companies that were
partners with our American firms, we look at them, and what do we
find out? They are not private companies at all. Many of them are
subsidiaries of the People's Liberation Army. That is right, the
Communist Chinese army owns these companies. These are
nothing more than military people in civilian clothing. Their profits
end up paying for weapons targeting America, and we are paying
them to build the companies that make those profits.

'Alarming Betrayal of American Security'

Perhaps the most alarming betrayal of American national security
interests surfaced about 5 years ago when some of America's
biggest aerospace firms went into China hoping to use Chinese
rockets to launch American satellites. They were trying to make a
fast buck. It did not cost them a lot more to launch satellites here.

Yes, the Chinese were insisting that any satellites we put up for them
be put up on their rockets. I personally thought that, as long as we
made sure there was no technology transfer, that was an okay
policy. As long as we just launched our American satellite which
helped them set up a telephone system or something in China, that
is fine if they never got ahold of it, and that would be okay.

I was guaranteed, along with the other Members of this body, there
would be incredible safeguards. The last administration briefed us
on the safeguards. Then as soon as we approved of letting these
satellite deals go through and our satellites be launched on Chinese
rockets, the administration trash canned all of the safeguards. I do
not understand it. I do not understand why people did this.

But when all was said and done, the Communist Chinese rocket
arsenal was filled with more reliable and more capable rockets,
thanks to Loral, Hughes and other aerospace firms. Communist
Chinese rockets, which were a joke 10 years ago, when Bill Clinton
became President of the United States, they were a joke, one out of
10 failed, exploded before they could get into space. Today they are
dramatically more likely to hit their targets, and they even carry
multiple warheads. Where before they had one warhead and nine
out of 10 would explode, now about 9 out of 10 get to their target,
and some of them are carrying multiple warheads.

The Cox Report

The Cox report detailed this travesty. We should not forget the Cox
report. Unfortunately, there has been innuendo after innuendo as if
the Cox report has in some way been proven wrong. There are no
reports that indicate that what the gentleman from California (Mr.
COX) and his task force proved has in some way been discredited.
In fact, there was a transfer of technology to the Communist Chinese
that did great damage to our national security and put millions of
American lives at risk that did not have to be put at risk.

Yet, even with all this staring Congress in the face, we have
continued to give Most Favored Nations status to China and even
now vote to make them part of the World Trade Organization. Why?
One explanation, well just bad theory. Expanding trade, of course,
they believe will make things better. But expanding trade did not
make things better. Expanding trade with a dictatorship, as I have
mentioned, just expands the power base and solidifies the bad guys
in power.

Of course the other explanation of why all this is going on, why we
end up seeing our national security trashed is pure greed on some
individuals' parts.

Our businessmen have been blinded, not by the dream of selling
U.S.-made products to China as they would have you believe in the
debates here on the floor of the House, but rather blinded by the
vision of using virtually slave labor for quick profits on the mainland
of China.

With little or no competition, no negotiators, no lawyers, no
environmental restrictions, no unions, no public consent, it sounds
like a businessman's dream to me. Yes, it is a businessman's
dream if you just blot out the picture of a grinding tyranny and the
human rights abuses that are going on and the horrible threat to the
United States of America that is emerging because of the things
that are going on and the things that are being done.

Because you are a businessman, because you are engaged in
making a profit as we are free to do in the United States does not
exempt you from being a patriot or being loyal to the security
interests of the United States of America.

Today's American overseas businessman quite often is a far cry
from the Yankee clipper captains of days gone by. In those days, our
Yankee clipper ships sailed the ocean, cut through those seas, the
Seven Seas. They were full going over, and they were full coming
back. They waived our flag. Our flag was flying from those clipper
ships, and our flag stood for freedom and justice. Those Yankee
clipper captains and those business entrepreneurs were proud to
be Americans.

Today, America's tycoons often see nationalism, read that loyalty to
the United States, as an antiquated notion. They are players in the
global economy now, they feel. Patriotism they believe is old think.

Well, we cannot rely on the decisions of people like this to
determine what the interests of the United States of America is to
be. Yet, the influence of these billionaires and these tycoons, these
people who would be willing to invest in a dictatorship or a
democracy, they could care less which one, they do not care if there
is blood dripping off the hand that hands them the dollar bills, those
individuals influence our government. Their influence on this elected
body is monumental, if not insurmountable at times.

'People Must Be Free'

I believe in capitalism. I am a capitalist. I am someone who believes
in the free enterprise system, make no mistake about it. But free is
the ultimate word. People must be free to be involved in enterprise.
We must respect the basic tenets of liberty and justice that have
provided us a country in which people are free to uplift themselves
through hard work and through enterprise.

Today, more often than not, we are talking about how people are
trying to find out ways of manipulating government on how to make a
profit, not how to build a better product that will enrich everyone's life
and make a profit by doing that, which is the essence of the free
enterprise system.

More and more people are not even looking again to this great
country and considering this great country for the role that it is
playing in this world and how important it is and how we should
never sacrifice the security of this country. Because if this country
falls, the hope for freedom and justice everywhere in the world falls.
No, instead they have put their baskets, not in the United States of
America, put their eggs in the basket of globalism. Well, globalism
will not work without democratic reform.

China will corrupt the WTO, the World Trade Organization, just as it
has corrupted the election processes in the United States of
America. You can see it now 20 years from now, maybe 10 years
from now, the panels of the WTO, you know, made up of countries
from all over the world, Latin America, Africa, Middle East. There
are members of those panels making these decisions, they will not
have ever been elected by anybody, much less the people of the
United States of America, yet we will be expected to follow their
dictates. Communist China, they will pay those people off in a
heartbeat. Why not? They did it to our people.

The Clinton-Gore Scandals

Remember the campaign contributions given to Vice President
Gore at the Buddhist Temple? Remember the money delivered to
the Clinton's by Johnny Chung? Where did that money come from?
We are talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars. Where did it
come from? It originated with Chinese military officers.

These military officers were wearing civilian clothes. They were top
officers in that part of the People's Liberation Army that produces
missiles. That is where the money came from, all this while our most
deadly missile technology was being transferred to Communist
China. One wonders why the Communist Chinese leaders are
arrogant and think that American leaders are cowards and corrupt
when we let this happen.

Our country has, in short, had a disastrously counterproductive
policy. We have, over the last 10 years, built our worst potential
enemy from a weak, introverted power into a powerful economic
military force, a force that is looking to dominate all of Asia. When I
say worst potential enemy, that is not just my assessment. That is
what the Communist Chinese leaders themselves believe and are
planning for.

Why do you think Communist Chinese boss Jiang Zemin recently
visited Cuba? He was in Cuba with Fidel Castro who hates our guts
when he released the hostages, the American military personnel
that he was holding hostage. What do you think that was all about?
He was telling the whole world we are standing up to the United
States of America, and they are our enemy. He was involved with an
activity that was declaring to the world his hostility towards the
United States.

Why, when you have a country like this who are professing hostility
to the United States and doing such as this, why are we permitting
them to buy up ports that will effectively give them control of the
Panama Canal, which is what they did a year and a half ago.

Giving China the Panama Canal

The Panama Canal, the last administration let the Chinese, the
Communist Chinese, through bribery, tremendously expand its
power in Panama and, through bribery, let it get control of the port
facilities at both ends of the Panama Canal. Why would we let such
a thing happen?

In many ways, we are repeating history. In the 1920s, Japanese
militarists wiped out Japan's fledgling democratic movement. That it
did. In doing so, it set a course for Japan. Japan then was a racist
power which believed it, too, had a right to dominate Asia.
Japanese militarists also knew that only the United States of
America stood in their way. This is deja vu all over again as Yogi
Berra once said.

The Communist Chinese, too, are militarists who seek to dominate
Asia. They think they are racially superior to everyone. They are
unlike their Japanese predecessors, however, willing to go slow,
and they have been going slow. But make no mistake about it, they
intend to dominate Asia, all of it. And even know, their maps claim
Siberia, Mongolia and huge chunks of the South China Sea.

The confrontation with our surveillance plane must be reviewed in
this perspective if the damage to the United States and the
imprudence and arrogance on the part of the communist Chinese
are to be understood.

China's claim on the South China Sea includes the Spratley Islands.
I have a map of the South China Sea with me tonight. Hainan Island.
Our airplane was intercepted, knocked out of the sky somewhere in
here. But what we are not told about and what the media is not
focusing on and no one has been talking about is this plane was
precisely in the waters between Hainan Island and the Spratley
Islands.

For those who do not know what the Spratley Islands are, they are
just a series of reefs that are under water at high tide and at low tide
above water. They are just a short distance, as you can see, this is
here, this is the Philippines; and right about 100 miles offshore, the
Spratley Islands. Yet they are several hundred miles from China. Yet
the Chinese are trying to claim these islands. That is what this was
all about. Not only are these islands, the Spratley Islands, the home
of natural gas and oil deposits, but they are also in a strategic
location. The Spratly Islands, having them in China's power, having
them being recognized as part of China, would, of course, be a
disaster to the Philippines whose oil and gas that belongs to, but
also it would give the Communist Chinese sovereignty rights which
would permit them to bracket the South China Sea. China, Hainan
Island, the Spratlys would bracket the South China Sea, from this
land point to this land point. Thus, we have a situation where when
China claims, which it does, a 200-mile zone, that would leave
China with a stranglehold on the South China Sea which is one of
the most important commercial areas on this planet. It would have a
stranglehold on Japan and Korea.

What do you think our friends in the Persian Gulf, for example, would
think about it if they understood that this was a power play, that what
we had with the surveillance aircraft was a power play? The reason
why the Communist Chinese were demanding an apology then, they
were demanding an apology because supposedly we were in their
airspace. If we apologized, that was a recognition of their
sovereignty in bracketing with the Spratly Islands on one side and
Hainan Island on the other side, bracketing the South China Sea. If
we ended up apologizing to the Communist regime, it would have
been taken as a legal recognition, a small one, of their sovereignty
and their 200-mile limit. That is what this was all about. That is why
they were playing hardball with us.

The American people and our allies are not being told that that is
what the stakes were. This is a long-term effort on the part of the
Communist Chinese to dominate the South China Sea and expand
their power so they could call it maybe the Communist China Sea
rather than the South China Sea. It behooves us to face these facts.
That is what it was all about. That is why they wanted an apology and
that is why they should not have gotten an apology.

I applaud this administration for wording its letter in a way that was
not and could not in any way be interpreted as a recognition of the
Chinese sovereignty over that airspace. An accommodationist
policy toward Communist China, ignoring this type of aggression,
ignoring human rights and democracy concerns while stressing
expanded trade, and even through all this you have a bunch of
people saying, ``Oh, isn't it lucky we have trade relations or we
would really be in trouble with the Communist Chinese.'' Give me a
break. But ignoring those other elements and just stressing trade as
part of a so-called engagement theory has not worked.

The regime in China is more powerful, more belligerent to the
United States and more repressive than ever before. President
Bush's decision in the wake of this incident at Hainan Island to sell
an arms package to Taiwan including destroyers, submarines and
an antiaircraft upgrade was good. At least it shows more moxie than
what the last administration did.

I would have preferred to see the Aegis system be provided to our
Taiwanese friends. But at least we have gone forward with a
respectable arms deal that will help Taiwan defend itself and thus
deter military action in that area.

Cancel 'All U.S. Military Exchanges' With China

But after the Hainan Island incident, the very least we should be
doing is canceling all U.S. military exchanges with Communist
China. I mean, I do not know if they are still delivering us those
berets or not, but that is just ridiculous to think that we are getting our
military berets from Communist China. We should cancel all military
exchanges.

The American people should be put on alert that they are in danger
if they travel to the mainland of China. And we should quit using our
tax dollars through the Export-Import Bank, the IMF and the World
Bank to subsidize big business when they want to build a factory in
China or in any other dictatorship.

Why are we helping Vietnam and China? Why are we helping those
dictatorships when nearby people, the people of the Philippines,
whom I just mentioned, who are on the front line against this
Communist aggression, who China is trying to flood drugs into their
country. The Chinese army itself is involved in the drug trade going
into the Philippines.

The Philippines are struggling to have a democracy. They have just
had to remove a president who is being bribed. Bribed by whom?
Bribed by organized crime figures from the mainland of China.
When those people in the Philippines are struggling, why are we not
trying to help them?

Let us not encourage American businesses to go to Vietnam or to
Communist China, when you have got people right close by who are
struggling to have a democratic government and love the United
States of America. The people of the Philippines are strong and
they love their freedom and their liberty, but they feel like they have
been abandoned by the United States. And when we help factories
to be set up in China rather than sending work to the Philippines,
and they do not even have the money to buy the weapons to defend
themselves in the Philippines. That is why it is important for us to
stand tall, so they know they can count on us. But they can only count
on us if we do what is right and have the courage to stand up.

The same with China and India. India is not my favorite country in the
world, but I will tell you this much, the Indians are struggling to have a
free and democratic society. They have democratic institutions, and
it is a struggle because they have so many varied people that live in
India. But they are struggling to make their country better and to
have a democratic system and to have rights and have a court
system that functions, to have opposition newspapers. They do not
have any of that in China. Yet instead of helping the Indian people,
we are helping the Communist Chinese people? This is misplaced
priorities at best.

Finally, in this atmosphere of turmoil and confrontation, let us never
forget who are our greatest allies, and that is the Chinese people
themselves. Let no mistake in the wording that I have used tonight
indicate that I hold the Chinese people accountable or synonymous
with the Chinese government or with Beijing or with the Communist
Party in China. The people of China are as freedom-loving and as
pro-American as any people of the world.

The people of China are not separated from the rest of humanity.
They too want freedom and honest government. They want to
improve their lives. They do not want a corrupt dictatorship over
them. And any struggle for peace and prosperity, any plan for our
country to try to bring peace to the world and to bring a better life
and to support the cause of freedom must include the people of
China.

We do not want war. We want the people of China to be free. Then
we could have free and open trade because it would be a free
country and it would be free trade between free people instead of
this travesty that we have today, which is a trade policy that
strengthens the dictatorship.

When the young people of China rose up and gathered together at
Tiananmen Square, they used our Statue of Liberty as a model for
their own goddess of liberty. That was the statue that they held forth.
That was their dream. They dreamed that her torch, the goddess of
liberty, would enlighten all China and they dreamed of a China
democratic, prosperous and free. Our shortsighted policy of
subsidized one-way trade crushes that goddess of liberty every bit
as much as those Red Army tanks did 12 years ago.

'Re-examine Our Souls'

Let us re-examine our souls. Let us re-examine our policies. Let us
reach out to the people of China and claim together that we are all
people of this planet, as our forefathers said, we are the ones, we
are the people who have been given by God the rights of life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. That is not just for Americans. That is
for all the people of the world.

And when we recognize that and reach out with honesty and not for
a quick buck, not just to make a quick buck and then get out, but
instead to reach over to those people and help them build their
country, then we will have a future of peace and prosperity.

It will not happen if we sell out our own national security interests. It
will not happen if we are only siding with the ruling elite in China. We
want to share a world with the people of China. We are on their side.

Let me say this. That includes those soldiers in the People's
Liberation Army. The people in the People's Liberation Army come
from the population of China. They and those other forces at work in
China should rise up and join with all the other people in the world,
especially the American people, who believe in justice and truth; and
we will wipe away those people at the negotiating table today that
represent both sides of this negotiation, and we will sit face-to-face
with all the people in the world who love justice and freedom and
democracy, just as our forefathers thought was America's rightful
role, and we will build a better world that way.

We will not do it through a World Trade Organization. We will do it
by respecting our own rights and respecting the rights of every other
country and every other people on this planet.

I hope that tonight the American people have heard these words.
The course is not unalterable. This is a new administration. And in
this new administration, I would hope that we reverse these horrible
mistakes that have compromised our national security and
undermined the cause of liberty and justice.

I look forward to working with this administration to doing what is
right for our country and right for the cause of peace and freedom.



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Rick Horowitz


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Rick Horowitz wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> The following speech, reprinted from www.newsmax.com, was made this Tuesday
> night by U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of California. I urge you all to
> read every word of this speech. I have been aware of much of the budding
> catastrophe we face regarding China, yet have not seen the issues
> articulated with anything near the clarity that Mr. Rohrabacher does in
> this speech.
>
> My wife and I began boycotting Chinese-made goods about a year ago in
> recognition of the reasons outlined here. I urge every one of you to
> forward this message to everyone in your email list, and begin boycotting
> Chinese goods immediately.
>
> My own brief summary of the issues:
>
> 1. Our extreme trade deficit vs. China (nearly $100B per year now) has been
> used for a massive military buildup, with the U.S. as the ultimate target.
> 2. Russia is selling their most advanced arms to China, capable of
> destroying our aircraft carriers, including a supersonic torpedo technology
> that is far beyond anything that we have and for which we have no defense.
> 3. Our leading defense contractors, including Loral, Boeing, Hughes,
> Motorola, and others have sold advanced military technology to China over
> the past few years, including technology that now enables Chinese
> nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles to accurately hit
> American cities, something they were not able to do prior to this transfer
> of technology.
> 4. The majority of the "partner" companies of U.S. ventures in China are in
> fact owned and operated by the PLA (the People's Liberation Army - the
> Chinese army). These are not commercial interests.
> 5. The U.S. government (read you and I) have been providing tax breaks to
> American companies to close up factories in the U.S. and reopen them in
> China. These factories transfer advanced technology in many cases, put
> Americans out of work, and provide cash to the Chinese to further their
> military expansion.
>
> I hope these points and the following reprinted speech make you think long
> and hard about our position regarding China, and that you:
>
> 1. Start boycotting Chinese-made goods immediately
> 2. Send this message to everyone on your email list. Please don't be
> embarrassed to take a stand on this. I assure you, it is not my imagination
> that China poses a significant threat to our safety and future, and we are
> giving them the money, technology, and weaponry to carry out their many
> threats already made against our country.
>
> Here's one informational link...I'm sure you can find may others yourself.
>
> PLEASE read Mr. Rohrabacher's speech, below:
>
> http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/chinamissiles_990409.html
> ....includes, "A Chinese official hinted at launching a nuclear weapon
> at Los Angeles in 1996, when U.S. warships confronted
> China over missile firings near Taiwan."
>
> Make no mistake about it. The Chinese government is a dictatorship, and is
> very dangerous.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Rick Horowitz
>
> Rohrabacher Slams U.S. Aid to China
>
> Rep. Dana Rohrabacher
> Thursday, April 26, 2001
>
> Editor's note: This is the text of a speech on the House floor by
> U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., Tuesday night.
>
> Mr. Speaker, one month ago, the Communist regime that controls
> the mainland of China attacked an American surveillance aircraft
> while it was in international waters. After being knocked out of the
> sky, 24 American military personnel, the crew of the surveillance
> craft, were held hostage for nearly 2 weeks. The Communist
> Chinese blamed us and would not return the crew until the United
> States was humiliated before the world.
>
> Wake up, America. What is going on here? Large financial interests
> in our country whose only goal is exploiting the cheap, near-slave
> labor of China have been leading our country down the path to
> catastrophe. How much more proof do we need that the so-called
> engagement theory is a total failure?
>
> Our massive investment in China, pushed and promoted by
> American billionaires and multinational corporations, has created
> not a more peaceful, democratic China, but an aggressive
> nuclear-armed bully that now threatens the world with its hostile acts
> and proliferation. Do the Communist Chinese have to murder
> American personnel or attack the United States or our allies with
> their missiles before those who blithesomely pontificate about the
> civilizing benefits of building the Chinese economy will admit that
> China for a decade has been going in the opposite direction than
> predicted by the so-called ``free traders.''
>
> 'We Have Made a Monstrous Mistake'
>
> We have made a monstrous mistake, and if we do not face reality
> and change our fundamental policies, instead of peace, there will be
> conflict. Instead of democratic reform, we will see a further
> retrenchment of a regime that is run by gangsters and thugs, the
> world's worst human rights abusers.
>
> Let us go back to basics. The mainland of China is controlled by a
> rigid, Stalinistic Communist party. The regime is committing
> genocide in Tibet. It is holding as a captive the designated
> successor of the Dalai Lama, who is the spiritual leader of the
> Tibetan people. By the way, this person, the designated new leader,
> is a little boy. They are holding hostage a little boy in order to
> terrorize the Tibetan people. The regime is now, at this moment,
> arresting thousands of members of the Falun Gong, which is nothing
> more threatening than a meditation and yoga society. Christians of
> all denominations are being brutalized unless they register with the
> state and attend controlled churches. Just in the last few days, there
> has been a round-up of Catholics who were practicing their faith
> outside of state control. Now they are in a Chinese prison.
>
> There are no opposition parties in China. There is no free press in
> China. China is not a free society under anyone's definition. More
> importantly, it is not a society that is evolving toward freedom.
>
> President Richard Nixon first established our ties with the
> Communist Chinese in 1972 at the height of the Cold War. That was
> a brilliant move. At that particular moment, it was a brilliant move. It
> enabled us to play the power of one dictatorship off the power of
> another dictatorship. We played one against the other at a time
> when we had been weakened by the Vietnam War and at a time
> when Soviet Russia was on the offensive.
>
> During the Reagan years, we dramatically expanded our ties to
> China, but do not miss the essential fact that justified that
> relationship and made it different than what has been going on
> these last 10 years. China was at that time, during the Reagan
> administration, evolving toward a freer, more open society, a
> growing democratic movement was evident, and the United States,
> our government and our people, fostered this movement. Under
> President Reagan, we brought tens of thousands of students here,
> and we sent teams from our National Endowment for Democracy
> there. We were working with them to build a more democratic
> society, and it looked like that was what was going to happen. All of
> this ended, of course, in Tiananmen Square over 10 years ago.
>
> 'Tanks to Wipe Out the Opposition'
>
> Thousands of Chinese gathered there in Tiananmen Square in
> Beijing to demand a more open and democratic government. For a
> moment, it appeared like there had been an historic breakthrough.
> Then, from out of the darkness came battle-hardened troops and
> tanks to wipe out the opposition. The people who ordered that
> attack are still holding the reins of power in China today and, like all
> other criminals who get away with scurrilous deeds, they have
> become emboldened and arrogant.
>
> My only lament is that had Ronald Reagan been president during
> that time of Tiananmen Square, things, I think, would have been
> different; but he was not. Since that turn of events about 12 years
> ago, things have been progressively worse. The repression is more
> evident than ever. The belligerence and hostility of Beijing is even
> more open. Underscoring the insanity of it all, the Communist
> Chinese have been using their huge trade surplus with the United
> States to upgrade their military and expand its warfighting
> capabilities.
>
> Communist China's arsenal of jets, its ballistic missiles, its naval
> forces have all been modernized and reinforced. In the last 2 years,
> they have purchased destroyers from the former Soviet Union.
> These destroyers are armed with Sunburn missiles. These were
> systems that were designed during the Cold War by the Russians to
> destroy American aircraft carriers.
>
> Yes, the Communist Chinese are arming themselves to sink
> American aircraft carriers, to kill thousands upon thousands of
> American sailors. Make no mistake about it, China's military might
> now threatens America and world peace. If there is a crisis in that
> part of the world again, which there will be, we can predict that some
> day, unlike the last crisis when American aircraft carriers were able
> to become a peaceful element to bring moderation of judgment
> among the players who were in conflict, instead, American aircraft
> carriers will find themselves vulnerable, and an American President
> will have to face the choice of risking the lives of all of those sailors
> on those aircraft carriers.
>
> Mr. Speaker, how is it, then, that a relatively poor country can afford
> to enlarge its military in such a way, to the point that it can threaten a
> superpower such as the United States of America?
>
> Even as China's slide into tyranny and militarism continued in these
> last 12 years, the United States government has permitted a totally
> indefensible economic rules of engagement to guide our
> commercial ties with the mainland of China.
>
> While China was going in the right direction, permitting that country
> to have a large trade advantage and thus providing a large reserve
> of hard currency may or may not have made sense, as long as
> China was going in the right direction and going towards
> democracy. Maybe we would like to build up a freer China that way.
>
> It 'Makes No Sense' to Help Arm China
>
> But it made no sense, and it still makes no sense, for the United
> States to permit a country that is sinking even deeper into tyranny
> and into anti-Western hostility to have a huge trade surplus as a
> resource to call upon to meet their military needs.
>
> In effect, the Communist Chinese have been using the tens of
> billions of dollars of trade surplus with the United States each year to
> build their military power and military might so some day the
> Communist Chinese might be able to kill millions of our people, or at
> least to threaten us to do that in order to back us down into defeat
> without ever coming to a fight.
>
> We have essentially been arming and equipping our worst potential
> enemy and financing our own destruction. How could we let such a
> crime against the security of our country happen? Well, it was
> argued by some very sincere people that free trade would bring
> positive change to China, and that engagement would civilize the
> Communist regime.
>
> Even as evidence stacked upon more evidence indicated that
> China was not liberalizing, that just the opposite was happening, the
> barkers for open markets kept singing their song:
> ``Most-favored-nation status, just give us this and things will get
> better.'' It was nonsense then and it is nonsense today. But after all
> that has happened, one would think that the shame factor would
> silence these eternal optimists.
>
> Perhaps I am a bit sensitive because, first and foremost, let me
> state unequivocally that I consider myself a free trader. Yes, I believe
> in free trade between free people. What we should strive for is to
> have more and more open trade with all free and democratic
> countries, or countries that are heading in the right direction.
>
> I am thus positively inclined towards President Bush's efforts to
> establish a free trade zone among the democratic countries in this
> hemisphere. I will read the fine print, but my inclination is to facilitate
> trade between democracies.
>
> When I say, ``I will read the fine print,'' I will be especially concerned
> with a free trade agreement, and I will be looking to that free trade
> agreement to make sure that we have protection that our sensitive
> technologies, which can be used for military purposes, will not be
> transferred from the countries in our hemisphere, democratic
> countries in our hemisphere, to China or to any other countries that
> are potential enemies of the United States. This will have to be in
> that free trade agreement.
>
> There will have to be protections against the transfer of our
> technology to our enemies. This is more of a concern following new
> science and technology agreements that were signed by China and
> countries like Brazil and Venezuela recently. Dictatorships are
> always going to try to gain in any agreement that they have with us,
> and they are always going to try to manipulate other agreements
> and the rules of the game so they can stay in power.
>
> When one applies the rules of free trade to a controlled society, as
> we have been told over and over again, more trade, and let us have
> free trade with China, that is going to make them more dependent
> on us and they will be freer and more prosperous, more likely to be
> peaceful people, well, if we apply the rules of free trade to a
> dictatorship, ultimately what happens is that it is only free trade in
> one direction.
>
> On one end we have free people, a democratic people who are not
> controlled by their government, and thus are basically unregulated
> and are moving forward for their own benefit. But on the other end,
> the trade will be controlled and manipulated to ensure that the
> current establishment of that country stays in power.
>
> Never has that been more evident than in America's dealing with
> Communist China. In this case, it is so very blatant.
>
> Those advocating most-favored-nation status, or as it is called now,
> normal trade relations, have always based their case on the boon to
> our country represented by the sale of American goods to ``the
> world's largest market.'' That is their argument. Here on this floor
> over and over and over again we heard people say, ``We have to
> have these normal trade relations because we have to sell our
> products, the products made by the American people, to the world's
> largest market.''
>
> This Is Free Trade?
>
> That is a great pitch. The only problem is, it is not true. The sale of
> U.S.-produced vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, autos, you name the
> commercial item, are almost a non-factor in the trade relationship
> between our countries. They are a minuscule amount of what is
> considered the trade analysis of these two countries.
>
> During these many years that we have given China
> most-favored-nation status or normal trade relations, the power elite
> there never lowered China's tariffs, and in fact increased the tariffs
> in some areas, and erected barriers to prevent the sale of all but a
> few U.S.-made products.
>
> So while we had low tariffs, and intentionally brought our tariffs down
> by most-favored-nation, for over a decade, even as China was
> slipping more into tyranny, they were permitted to have high tariffs
> and block our goods from coming in.
>
> Beijing would not permit its own people to buy American-made
> consumer items. They were not looking for a trade relationship with
> the United States for their people to be able to buy American
> products. That is not what they were looking for. That is not what it
> was all about. They knew it, but yet our people were told over and
> over and over and over and over again, ``Oh, we have to have
> most-favored-nation status and normal trade relations in order to sell
> American products to the world's largest market.''
>
> That is not what was going on. It is not what the reality was. Instead,
> the Communist Chinese were out to get American money, lots of it,
> and American money to build factories, and they wanted the
> Americans to build the factories with our technology and our money
> in their country.
>
> By the way, many of the factories that were built there were not built
> in order to sell products to the Chinese people. Those factories
> were built to export products to the United States.
>
> The system that developed with the acquiescence of our
> government, and this is no secret, what I am talking about tonight is
> no secret to anyone except to the American people, our government
> acquiesced to this for years, this policy put the American people, the
> American working people, on the losing end of the transformational
> action in the long run and sometimes even in the medium run.
>
> The Chinese, because of our low tariffs, flooded our market with
> their products, and blocked our goods from entering China, and all
> the while we were hearing over and over again, ``We must have
> most-favored-nation status in order to sell American products in the
> world's largest market.''
>
> They droned on year after year that most-favored-nation status was
> so important to selling our products in the world's largest market. I
> will just repeat that four or five times, because we must have heard it
> a thousand times on this floor, and every time said, I am sure, in
> complete sincerity by the people who were expressing it, but were
> totally wrong. A very quick look into the statistics could have
> indicated that.
>
> Taiwan a Better Customer
>
> By the way, just to let members know, the people of Taiwan,
> numbering 22 million people, buy more from us annually than the 1.2
> Chinese on the mainland. The Taiwanese, with 22 million people,
> buy more consumer products from us than do 1.2 billion Chinese in
> the mainland.
>
> What has happened? What has happened as a result of these
> nonsensical counterproductive policies, anti-American policies to
> some degree, even though our own government has acquiesced in
> them? It has resulted in a decline in domestic manufacturing
> facilities in the United States. In other words, we have been closing
> down our factories and putting our people out of work.
>
> By the way, that does not mean the company is put out of business.
> Those factories spring up someplace else. There is this flood of
> Chinese products, the factory closes down, and guess where it
> reopens? It reopens, yes, in Communist China, using our modern
> technology and our capital, which is what the Chinese want to have
> invested in their country.
>
> Taxing Americans to Help Communism
>
> Adding insult to injury, our working people, some of them, whose
> jobs are being threatened by imports, our working people are being
> taxed in order to provide taxpayer-subsidized loans and loan
> guarantees for those corporate leaders wishing to close down their
> operations in the United States and set up on the mainland of China.
>
> Even if China was a free country, that would not be a good idea. I do
> not believe we should be doing that even for democratic countries.
> But for us to do that to a Communist dictatorship or any kind of
> dictatorship, to have the American taxpayer subsidize these
> investments, taking the risks on the shoulders of the American
> taxpayer in order to build the economy of a vicious dictatorship, this
> is insane. This is an insane policy. This is not free trade between
> free people. It has nothing to do with free trade. It is subsidized trade
> with subjugated people.
>
> Companies that were permitted to sell their product to the Chinese
> in these last 10 years, and there have been a few, companies like
> Boeing who have attempted to sell airplanes to China, have found
> themselves in a very bad predicament. As part of the deal enabling
> them to sell planes now to Communist China, they have had to set
> up manufacturing facilities in China to build the parts, or at least
> some of the parts for the airplane.
>
> Thus, over a period of time, what the Chinese have managed to do
> is to have the United States just build factories and pay for them. Or,
> as part of an agreement to sell the airplane, we have set up an
> aerospace industry in China that will compete with our own
> aerospace industry.
>
> I come from California. I come from a district in which aerospace is
> a mighty important part of our economy. I just want to thank all the
> people who have permitted this policy, this blackmail of American
> companies, to go on under the name, under the guise of free trade.
> It is going to sell out our own national interest 10 years down the
> road when these people will have a modern aerospace industry
> building weapons and being able to undercut our own people. Gee,
> thanks.
>
> Making matters worse, many of the so-called companies in China
> that are partnering with American industrialists, and American
> industrialists, when they are going to build in China, are often
> required to have a Chinese company as their partner as a
> prerequisite to them investing in China, in short order these
> so-called partners end up taking over the company. So many of
> American companies have been there and have been burned.
>
> Guess what, we look at these private Chinese companies that were
> partners with our American firms, we look at them, and what do we
> find out? They are not private companies at all. Many of them are
> subsidiaries of the People's Liberation Army. That is right, the
> Communist Chinese army owns these companies. These are
> nothing more than military people in civilian clothing. Their profits
> end up paying for weapons targeting America, and we are paying
> them to build the companies that make those profits.
>
> 'Alarming Betrayal of American Security'
>
> Perhaps the most alarming betrayal of American national security
> interests surfaced about 5 years ago when some of America's
> biggest aerospace firms went into China hoping to use Chinese
> rockets to launch American satellites. They were trying to make a
> fast buck. It did not cost them a lot more to launch satellites here.
>
> Yes, the Chinese were insisting that any satellites we put up for them
> be put up on their rockets. I personally thought that, as long as we
> made sure there was no technology transfer, that was an okay
> policy. As long as we just launched our American satellite which
> helped them set up a telephone system or something in China, that
> is fine if they never got ahold of it, and that would be okay.
>
> I was guaranteed, along with the other Members of this body, there
> would be incredible safeguards. The last administration briefed us
> on the safeguards. Then as soon as we approved of letting these
> satellite deals go through and our satellites be launched on Chinese
> rockets, the administration trash canned all of the safeguards. I do
> not understand it. I do not understand why people did this.
>
> But when all was said and done, the Communist Chinese rocket
> arsenal was filled with more reliable and more capable rockets,
> thanks to Loral, Hughes and other aerospace firms. Communist
> Chinese rockets, which were a joke 10 years ago, when Bill Clinton
> became President of the United States, they were a joke, one out of
> 10 failed, exploded before they could get into space. Today they are
> dramatically more likely to hit their targets, and they even carry
> multiple warheads. Where before they had one warhead and nine
> out of 10 would explode, now about 9 out of 10 get to their target,
> and some of them are carrying multiple warheads.
>
> The Cox Report
>
> The Cox report detailed this travesty. We should not forget the Cox
> report. Unfortunately, there has been innuendo after innuendo as if
> the Cox report has in some way been proven wrong. There are no
> reports that indicate that what the gentleman from California (Mr.
> COX) and his task force proved has in some way been discredited.
> In fact, there was a transfer of technology to the Communist Chinese
> that did great damage to our national security and put millions of
> American lives at risk that did not have to be put at risk.
>
> Yet, even with all this staring Congress in the face, we have
> continued to give Most Favored Nations status to China and even
> now vote to make them part of the World Trade Organization. Why?
> One explanation, well just bad theory. Expanding trade, of course,
> they believe will make things better. But expanding trade did not
> make things better. Expanding trade with a dictatorship, as I have
> mentioned, just expands the power base and solidifies the bad guys
> in power.
>
> Of course the other explanation of why all this is going on, why we
> end up seeing our national security trashed is pure greed on some
> individuals' parts.
>
> Our businessmen have been blinded, not by the dream of selling
> U.S.-made products to China as they would have you believe in the
> debates here on the floor of the House, but rather blinded by the
> vision of using virtually slave labor for quick profits on the mainland
> of China.
>
> With little or no competition, no negotiators, no lawyers, no
> environmental restrictions, no unions, no public consent, it sounds
> like a businessman's dream to me. Yes, it is a businessman's
> dream if you just blot out the picture of a grinding tyranny and the
> human rights abuses that are going on and the horrible threat to the
> United States of America that is emerging because of the things
> that are going on and the things that are being done.
>
> Because you are a businessman, because you are engaged in
> making a profit as we are free to do in the United States does not
> exempt you from being a patriot or being loyal to the security
> interests of the United States of America.
>
> Today's American overseas businessman quite often is a far cry
> from the Yankee clipper captains of days gone by. In those days, our
> Yankee clipper ships sailed the ocean, cut through those seas, the
> Seven Seas. They were full going over, and they were full coming
> back. They waived our flag. Our flag was flying from those clipper
> ships, and our flag stood for freedom and justice. Those Yankee
> clipper captains and those business entrepreneurs were proud to
> be Americans.
>
> Today, America's tycoons often see nationalism, read that loyalty to
> the United States, as an antiquated notion. They are players in the
> global economy now, they feel. Patriotism they believe is old think.
>
> Well, we cannot rely on the decisions of people like this to
> determine what the interests of the United States of America is to
> be. Yet, the influence of these billionaires and these tycoons, these
> people who would be willing to invest in a dictatorship or a
> democracy, they could care less which one, they do not care if there
> is blood dripping off the hand that hands them the dollar bills, those
> individuals influence our government. Their influence on this elected
> body is monumental, if not insurmountable at times.
>
> 'People Must Be Free'
>
> I believe in capitalism. I am a capitalist. I am someone who believes
> in the free enterprise system, make no mistake about it. But free is
> the ultimate word. People must be free to be involved in enterprise.
> We must respect the basic tenets of liberty and justice that have
> provided us a country in which people are free to uplift themselves
> through hard work and through enterprise.
>
> Today, more often than not, we are talking about how people are
> trying to find out ways of manipulating government on how to make a
> profit, not how to build a better product that will enrich everyone's life
> and make a profit by doing that, which is the essence of the free
> enterprise system.
>
> More and more people are not even looking again to this great
> country and considering this great country for the role that it is
> playing in this world and how important it is and how we should
> never sacrifice the security of this country. Because if this country
> falls, the hope for freedom and justice everywhere in the world falls.
> No, instead they have put their baskets, not in the United States of
> America, put their eggs in the basket of globalism. Well, globalism
> will not work without democratic reform.
>
> China will corrupt the WTO, the World Trade Organization, just as it
> has corrupted the election processes in the United States of
> America. You can see it now 20 years from now, maybe 10 years
> from now, the panels of the WTO, you know, made up of countries
> from all over the world, Latin America, Africa, Middle East. There
> are members of those panels making these decisions, they will not
> have ever been elected by anybody, much less the people of the
> United States of America, yet we will be expected to follow their
> dictates. Communist China, they will pay those people off in a
> heartbeat. Why not? They did it to our people.
>
> The Clinton-Gore Scandals
>
> Remember the campaign contributions given to Vice President
> Gore at the Buddhist Temple? Remember the money delivered to
> the Clinton's by Johnny Chung? Where did that money come from?
> We are talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars. Where did it
> come from? It originated with Chinese military officers.
>
> These military officers were wearing civilian clothes. They were top
> officers in that part of the People's Liberation Army that produces
> missiles. That is where the money came from, all this while our most
> deadly missile technology was being transferred to Communist
> China. One wonders why the Communist Chinese leaders are
> arrogant and think that American leaders are cowards and corrupt
> when we let this happen.
>
> Our country has, in short, had a disastrously counterproductive
> policy. We have, over the last 10 years, built our worst potential
> enemy from a weak, introverted power into a powerful economic
> military force, a force that is looking to dominate all of Asia. When I
> say worst potential enemy, that is not just my assessment. That is
> what the Communist Chinese leaders themselves believe and are
> planning for.
>
> Why do you think Communist Chinese boss Jiang Zemin recently
> visited Cuba? He was in Cuba with Fidel Castro who hates our guts
> when he released the hostages, the American military personnel
> that he was holding hostage. What do you think that was all about?
> He was telling the whole world we are standing up to the United
> States of America, and they are our enemy. He was involved with an
> activity that was declaring to the world his hostility towards the
> United States.
>
> Why, when you have a country like this who are professing hostility
> to the United States and doing such as this, why are we permitting
> them to buy up ports that will effectively give them control of the
> Panama Canal, which is what they did a year and a half ago.
>
> Giving China the Panama Canal
>
> The Panama Canal, the last administration let the Chinese, the
> Communist Chinese, through bribery, tremendously expand its
> power in Panama and, through bribery, let it get control of the port
> facilities at both ends of the Panama Canal. Why would we let such
> a thing happen?
>
> In many ways, we are repeating history. In the 1920s, Japanese
> militarists wiped out Japan's fledgling democratic movement. That it
> did. In doing so, it set a course for Japan. Japan then was a racist
> power which believed it, too, had a right to dominate Asia.
> Japanese militarists also knew that only the United States of
> America stood in their way. This is deja vu all over again as Yogi
> Berra once said.
>
> The Communist Chinese, too, are militarists who seek to dominate
> Asia. They think they are racially superior to everyone. They are
> unlike their Japanese predecessors, however, willing to go slow,
> and they have been going slow. But make no mistake about it, they
> intend to dominate Asia, all of it. And even know, their maps claim
> Siberia, Mongolia and huge chunks of the South China Sea.
>
> The confrontation with our surveillance plane must be reviewed in
> this perspective if the damage to the United States and the
> imprudence and arrogance on the part of the communist Chinese
> are to be understood.
>
> China's claim on the South China Sea includes the Spratley Islands.
> I have a map of the South China Sea with me tonight. Hainan Island.
> Our airplane was intercepted, knocked out of the sky somewhere in
> here. But what we are not told about and what the media is not
> focusing on and no one has been talking about is this plane was
> precisely in the waters between Hainan Island and the Spratley
> Islands.
>
> For those who do not know what the Spratley Islands are, they are
> just a series of reefs that are under water at high tide and at low tide
> above water. They are just a short distance, as you can see, this is
> here, this is the Philippines; and right about 100 miles offshore, the
> Spratley Islands. Yet they are several hundred miles from China. Yet
> the Chinese are trying to claim these islands. That is what this was
> all about. Not only are these islands, the Spratley Islands, the home
> of natural gas and oil deposits, but they are also in a strategic
> location. The Spratly Islands, having them in China's power, having
> them being recognized as part of China, would, of course, be a
> disaster to the Philippines whose oil and gas that belongs to, but
> also it would give the Communist Chinese sovereignty rights which
> would permit them to bracket the South China Sea. China, Hainan
> Island, the Spratlys would bracket the South China Sea, from this
> land point to this land point. Thus, we have a situation where when
> China claims, which it does, a 200-mile zone, that would leave
> China with a stranglehold on the South China Sea which is one of
> the most important commercial areas on this planet. It would have a
> stranglehold on Japan and Korea.
>
> What do you think our friends in the Persian Gulf, for example, would
> think about it if they understood that this was a power play, that what
> we had with the surveillance aircraft was a power play? The reason
> why the Communist Chinese were demanding an apology then, they
> were demanding an apology because supposedly we were in their
> airspace. If we apologized, that was a recognition of their
> sovereignty in bracketing with the Spratly Islands on one side and
> Hainan Island on the other side, bracketing the South China Sea. If
> we ended up apologizing to the Communist regime, it would have
> been taken as a legal recognition, a small one, of their sovereignty
> and their 200-mile limit. That is what this was all about. That is why
> they were playing hardball with us.
>
> The American people and our allies are not being told that that is
> what the stakes were. This is a long-term effort on the part of the
> Communist Chinese to dominate the South China Sea and expand
> their power so they could call it maybe the Communist China Sea
> rather than the South China Sea. It behooves us to face these facts.
> That is what it was all about. That is why they wanted an apology and
> that is why they should not have gotten an apology.
>
> I applaud this administration for wording its letter in a way that was
> not and could not in any way be interpreted as a recognition of the
> Chinese sovereignty over that airspace. An accommodationist
> policy toward Communist China, ignoring this type of aggression,
> ignoring human rights and democracy concerns while stressing
> expanded trade, and even through all this you have a bunch of
> people saying, ``Oh, isn't it lucky we have trade relations or we
> would really be in trouble with the Communist Chinese.'' Give me a
> break. But ignoring those other elements and just stressing trade as
> part of a so-called engagement theory has not worked.
>
> The regime in China is more powerful, more belligerent to the
> United States and more repressive than ever before. President
> Bush's decision in the wake of this incident at Hainan Island to sell
> an arms package to Taiwan including destroyers, submarines and
> an antiaircraft upgrade was good. At least it shows more moxie than
> what the last administration did.
>
> I would have preferred to see the Aegis system be provided to our
> Taiwanese friends. But at least we have gone forward with a
> respectable arms deal that will help Taiwan defend itself and thus
> deter military action in that area.
>
> Cancel 'All U.S. Military Exchanges' With China
>
> But after the Hainan Island incident, the very least we should be
> doing is canceling all U.S. military exchanges with Communist
> China. I mean, I do not know if they are still delivering us those
> berets or not, but that is just ridiculous to think that we are getting our
> military berets from Communist China. We should cancel all military
> exchanges.
>
> The American people should be put on alert that they are in danger
> if they travel to the mainland of China. And we should quit using our
> tax dollars through the Export-Import Bank, the IMF and the World
> Bank to subsidize big business when they want to build a factory in
> China or in any other dictatorship.
>
> Why are we helping Vietnam and China? Why are we helping those
> dictatorships when nearby people, the people of the Philippines,
> whom I just mentioned, who are on the front line against this
> Communist aggression, who China is trying to flood drugs into their
> country. The Chinese army itself is involved in the drug trade going
> into the Philippines.
>
> The Philippines are struggling to have a democracy. They have just
> had to remove a president who is being bribed. Bribed by whom?
> Bribed by organized crime figures from the mainland of China.
> When those people in the Philippines are struggling, why are we not
> trying to help them?
>
> Let us not encourage American businesses to go to Vietnam or to
> Communist China, when you have got people right close by who are
> struggling to have a democratic government and love the United
> States of America. The people of the Philippines are strong and
> they love their freedom and their liberty, but they feel like they have
> been abandoned by the United States. And when we help factories
> to be set up in China rather than sending work to the Philippines,
> and they do not even have the money to buy the weapons to defend
> themselves in the Philippines. That is why it is important for us to
> stand tall, so they know they can count on us. But they can only count
> on us if we do what is right and have the courage to stand up.
>
> The same with China and India. India is not my favorite country in the
> world, but I will tell you this much, the Indians are struggling to have a
> free and democratic society. They have democratic institutions, and
> it is a struggle because they have so many varied people that live in
> India. But they are struggling to make their country better and to
> have a democratic system and to have rights and have a court
> system that functions, to have opposition newspapers. They do not
> have any of that in China. Yet instead of helping the Indian people,
> we are helping the Communist Chinese people? This is misplaced
> priorities at best.
>
> Finally, in this atmosphere of turmoil and confrontation, let us never
> forget who are our greatest allies, and that is the Chinese people
> themselves. Let no mistake in the wording that I have used tonight
> indicate that I hold the Chinese people accountable or synonymous
> with the Chinese government or with Beijing or with the Communist
> Party in China. The people of China are as freedom-loving and as
> pro-American as any people of the world.
>
> The people of China are not separated from the rest of humanity.
> They too want freedom and honest government. They want to
> improve their lives. They do not want a corrupt dictatorship over
> them. And any struggle for peace and prosperity, any plan for our
> country to try to bring peace to the world and to bring a better life
> and to support the cause of freedom must include the people of
> China.
>
> We do not want war. We want the people of China to be free. Then
> we could have free and open trade because it would be a free
> country and it would be free trade between free people instead of
> this travesty that we have today, which is a trade policy that
> strengthens the dictatorship.
>
> When the young people of China rose up and gathered together at
> Tiananmen Square, they used our Statue of Liberty as a model for
> their own goddess of liberty. That was the statue that they held forth.
> That was their dream. They dreamed that her torch, the goddess of
> liberty, would enlighten all China and they dreamed of a China
> democratic, prosperous and free. Our shortsighted policy of
> subsidized one-way trade crushes that goddess of liberty every bit
> as much as those Red Army tanks did 12 years ago.
>
> 'Re-examine Our Souls'
>
> Let us re-examine our souls. Let us re-examine our policies. Let us
> reach out to the people of China and claim together that we are all
> people of this planet, as our forefathers said, we are the ones, we
> are the people who have been given by God the rights of life, liberty
> and the pursuit of happiness. That is not just for Americans. That is
> for all the people of the world.
>
> And when we recognize that and reach out with honesty and not for
> a quick buck, not just to make a quick buck and then get out, but
> instead to reach over to those people and help them build their
> country, then we will have a future of peace and prosperity.
>
> It will not happen if we sell out our own national security interests. It
> will not happen if we are only siding with the ruling elite in China. We
> want to share a world with the people of China. We are on their side.
>
> Let me say this. That includes those soldiers in the People's
> Liberation Army. The people in the People's Liberation Army come
> from the population of China. They and those other forces at work in
> China should rise up and join with all the other people in the world,
> especially the American people, who believe in justice and truth; and
> we will wipe away those people at the negotiating table today that
> represent both sides of this negotiation, and we will sit face-to-face
> with all the people in the world who love justice and freedom and
> democracy, just as our forefathers thought was America's rightful
> role, and we will build a better world that way.
>
> We will not do it through a World Trade Organization. We will do it
> by respecting our own rights and respecting the rights of every other
> country and every other people on this planet.
>
> I hope that tonight the American people have heard these words.
> The course is not unalterable. This is a new administration. And in
> this new administration, I would hope that we reverse these horrible
> mistakes that have compromised our national security and
> undermined the cause of liberty and justice.
>
> I look forward to working with this administration to doing what is
> right for our country and right for the cause of peace and freedom.
>
> --------------------
> Rick Horowitz
>
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Apology

[Rick Horowitz <ri...@yahoo.com>]

At 02:19 PM 4/26/01 -1000, you wrote:
>Hey - politics and struts don't mix.

I agree.  I sent this msg to the Struts list totally by accident. Thanks 
for your tame reply.

Regards,

Rick

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rick Horowitz [mailto:rickhoro@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 12:22 PM
>To: Horowitz
>Subject: Boycott China - please read - your life may depend on it
>
>
>Hello Everyone,
>
>The following speech, reprinted from www.newsmax.com, was made this Tuesday
>night by U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of California. I urge you all to
>read every word of this speech. I have been aware of much of the budding
>catastrophe we face regarding China, yet have not seen the issues
>articulated with anything near the clarity that Mr. Rohrabacher does in
>this speech.
>
>My wife and I began boycotting Chinese-made goods about a year ago in
>recognition of the reasons outlined here. I urge every one of you to
>forward this message to everyone in your email list, and begin boycotting
>Chinese goods immediately.
>
>My own brief summary of the issues:
>
>1. Our extreme trade deficit vs. China (nearly $100B per year now) has been
>used for a massive military buildup, with the U.S. as the ultimate target.
>2. Russia is selling their most advanced arms to China, capable of
>destroying our aircraft carriers, including a supersonic torpedo technology
>that is far beyond anything that we have and for which we have no defense.
>3. Our leading defense contractors, including Loral, Boeing, Hughes,
>Motorola, and others have sold advanced military technology to China over
>the past few years, including technology that now enables Chinese
>nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles to accurately hit
>American cities, something they were not able to do prior to this transfer
>of technology.
>4. The majority of the "partner" companies of U.S. ventures in China are in
>fact owned and operated by the PLA (the People's Liberation Army - the
>Chinese army). These are not commercial interests.
>5. The U.S. government (read you and I) have been providing tax breaks to
>American companies to close up factories in the U.S. and reopen them in
>China. These factories transfer advanced technology in many cases, put
>Americans out of work, and provide cash to the Chinese to further their
>military expansion.
>
>I hope these points and the following reprinted speech make you think long
>and hard about our position regarding China, and that you:
>
>1. Start boycotting Chinese-made goods immediately
>2. Send this message to everyone on your email list. Please don't be
>embarrassed to take a stand on this. I assure you, it is not my imagination
>that China poses a significant threat to our safety and future, and we are
>giving them the money, technology, and weaponry to carry out their many
>threats already made against our country.
>
>Here's one informational link...I'm sure you can find may others yourself.
>
>PLEASE read Mr. Rohrabacher's speech, below:
>
>http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/chinamissiles_990409.html
>....includes, "A Chinese official hinted at launching a nuclear weapon
>at Los Angeles in 1996, when U.S. warships confronted
>China over missile firings near Taiwan."
>
>Make no mistake about it. The Chinese government is a dictatorship, and is
>very dangerous.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Rick Horowitz
>
>Rohrabacher Slams U.S. Aid to China
>
>Rep. Dana Rohrabacher
>Thursday, April 26, 2001
>
>Editor's note: This is the text of a speech on the House floor by
>U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., Tuesday night.
>
>Mr. Speaker, one month ago, the Communist regime that controls
>the mainland of China attacked an American surveillance aircraft
>while it was in international waters. After being knocked out of the
>sky, 24 American military personnel, the crew of the surveillance
>craft, were held hostage for nearly 2 weeks. The Communist
>Chinese blamed us and would not return the crew until the United
>States was humiliated before the world.
>
>Wake up, America. What is going on here? Large financial interests
>in our country whose only goal is exploiting the cheap, near-slave
>labor of China have been leading our country down the path to
>catastrophe. How much more proof do we need that the so-called
>engagement theory is a total failure?
>
>Our massive investment in China, pushed and promoted by
>American billionaires and multinational corporations, has created
>not a more peaceful, democratic China, but an aggressive
>nuclear-armed bully that now threatens the world with its hostile acts
>and proliferation. Do the Communist Chinese have to murder
>American personnel or attack the United States or our allies with
>their missiles before those who blithesomely pontificate about the
>civilizing benefits of building the Chinese economy will admit that
>China for a decade has been going in the opposite direction than
>predicted by the so-called ``free traders.''
>
>'We Have Made a Monstrous Mistake'
>
>We have made a monstrous mistake, and if we do not face reality
>and change our fundamental policies, instead of peace, there will be
>conflict. Instead of democratic reform, we will see a further
>retrenchment of a regime that is run by gangsters and thugs, the
>world's worst human rights abusers.
>
>Let us go back to basics. The mainland of China is controlled by a
>rigid, Stalinistic Communist party. The regime is committing
>genocide in Tibet. It is holding as a captive the designated
>successor of the Dalai Lama, who is the spiritual leader of the
>Tibetan people. By the way, this person, the designated new leader,
>is a little boy. They are holding hostage a little boy in order to
>terrorize the Tibetan people. The regime is now, at this moment,
>arresting thousands of members of the Falun Gong, which is nothing
>more threatening than a meditation and yoga society. Christians of
>all denominations are being brutalized unless they register with the
>state and attend controlled churches. Just in the last few days, there
>has been a round-up of Catholics who were practicing their faith
>outside of state control. Now they are in a Chinese prison.
>
>There are no opposition parties in China. There is no free press in
>China. China is not a free society under anyone's definition. More
>importantly, it is not a society that is evolving toward freedom.
>
>President Richard Nixon first established our ties with the
>Communist Chinese in 1972 at the height of the Cold War. That was
>a brilliant move. At that particular moment, it was a brilliant move. It
>enabled us to play the power of one dictatorship off the power of
>another dictatorship. We played one against the other at a time
>when we had been weakened by the Vietnam War and at a time
>when Soviet Russia was on the offensive.
>
>During the Reagan years, we dramatically expanded our ties to
>China, but do not miss the essential fact that justified that
>relationship and made it different than what has been going on
>these last 10 years. China was at that time, during the Reagan
>administration, evolving toward a freer, more open society, a
>growing democratic movement was evident, and the United States,
>our government and our people, fostered this movement. Under
>President Reagan, we brought tens of thousands of students here,
>and we sent teams from our National Endowment for Democracy
>there. We were working with them to build a more democratic
>society, and it looked like that was what was going to happen. All of
>this ended, of course, in Tiananmen Square over 10 years ago.
>
>'Tanks to Wipe Out the Opposition'
>
>Thousands of Chinese gathered there in Tiananmen Square in
>Beijing to demand a more open and democratic government. For a
>moment, it appeared like there had been an historic breakthrough.
>Then, from out of the darkness came battle-hardened troops and
>tanks to wipe out the opposition. The people who ordered that
>attack are still holding the reins of power in China today and, like all
>other criminals who get away with scurrilous deeds, they have
>become emboldened and arrogant.
>
>My only lament is that had Ronald Reagan been president during
>that time of Tiananmen Square, things, I think, would have been
>different; but he was not. Since that turn of events about 12 years
>ago, things have been progressively worse. The repression is more
>evident than ever. The belligerence and hostility of Beijing is even
>more open. Underscoring the insanity of it all, the Communist
>Chinese have been using their huge trade surplus with the United
>States to upgrade their military and expand its warfighting
>capabilities.
>
>Communist China's arsenal of jets, its ballistic missiles, its naval
>forces have all been modernized and reinforced. In the last 2 years,
>they have purchased destroyers from the former Soviet Union.
>These destroyers are armed with Sunburn missiles. These were
>systems that were designed during the Cold War by the Russians to
>destroy American aircraft carriers.
>
>Yes, the Communist Chinese are arming themselves to sink
>American aircraft carriers, to kill thousands upon thousands of
>American sailors. Make no mistake about it, China's military might
>now threatens America and world peace. If there is a crisis in that
>part of the world again, which there will be, we can predict that some
>day, unlike the last crisis when American aircraft carriers were able
>to become a peaceful element to bring moderation of judgment
>among the players who were in conflict, instead, American aircraft
>carriers will find themselves vulnerable, and an American President
>will have to face the choice of risking the lives of all of those sailors
>on those aircraft carriers.
>
>Mr. Speaker, how is it, then, that a relatively poor country can afford
>to enlarge its military in such a way, to the point that it can threaten a
>superpower such as the United States of America?
>
>Even as China's slide into tyranny and militarism continued in these
>last 12 years, the United States government has permitted a totally
>indefensible economic rules of engagement to guide our
>commercial ties with the mainland of China.
>
>While China was going in the right direction, permitting that country
>to have a large trade advantage and thus providing a large reserve
>of hard currency may or may not have made sense, as long as
>China was going in the right direction and going towards
>democracy. Maybe we would like to build up a freer China that way.
>
>It 'Makes No Sense' to Help Arm China
>
>But it made no sense, and it still makes no sense, for the United
>States to permit a country that is sinking even deeper into tyranny
>and into anti-Western hostility to have a huge trade surplus as a
>resource to call upon to meet their military needs.
>
>In effect, the Communist Chinese have been using the tens of
>billions of dollars of trade surplus with the United States each year to
>build their military power and military might so some day the
>Communist Chinese might be able to kill millions of our people, or at
>least to threaten us to do that in order to back us down into defeat
>without ever coming to a fight.
>
>We have essentially been arming and equipping our worst potential
>enemy and financing our own destruction. How could we let such a
>crime against the security of our country happen? Well, it was
>argued by some very sincere people that free trade would bring
>positive change to China, and that engagement would civilize the
>Communist regime.
>
>Even as evidence stacked upon more evidence indicated that
>China was not liberalizing, that just the opposite was happening, the
>barkers for open markets kept singing their song:
>``Most-favored-nation status, just give us this and things will get
>better.'' It was nonsense then and it is nonsense today. But after all
>that has happened, one would think that the shame factor would
>silence these eternal optimists.
>
>Perhaps I am a bit sensitive because, first and foremost, let me
>state unequivocally that I consider myself a free trader. Yes, I believe
>in free trade between free people. What we should strive for is to
>have more and more open trade with all free and democratic
>countries, or countries that are heading in the right direction.
>
>I am thus positively inclined towards President Bush's efforts to
>establish a free trade zone among the democratic countries in this
>hemisphere. I will read the fine print, but my inclination is to facilitate
>trade between democracies.
>
>When I say, ``I will read the fine print,'' I will be especially concerned
>with a free trade agreement, and I will be looking to that free trade
>agreement to make sure that we have protection that our sensitive
>technologies, which can be used for military purposes, will not be
>transferred from the countries in our hemisphere, democratic
>countries in our hemisphere, to China or to any other countries that
>are potential enemies of the United States. This will have to be in
>that free trade agreement.
>
>There will have to be protections against the transfer of our
>technology to our enemies. This is more of a concern following new
>science and technology agreements that were signed by China and
>countries like Brazil and Venezuela recently. Dictatorships are
>always going to try to gain in any agreement that they have with us,
>and they are always going to try to manipulate other agreements
>and the rules of the game so they can stay in power.
>
>When one applies the rules of free trade to a controlled society, as
>we have been told over and over again, more trade, and let us have
>free trade with China, that is going to make them more dependent
>on us and they will be freer and more prosperous, more likely to be
>peaceful people, well, if we apply the rules of free trade to a
>dictatorship, ultimately what happens is that it is only free trade in
>one direction.
>
>On one end we have free people, a democratic people who are not
>controlled by their government, and thus are basically unregulated
>and are moving forward for their own benefit. But on the other end,
>the trade will be controlled and manipulated to ensure that the
>current establishment of that country stays in power.
>
>Never has that been more evident than in America's dealing with
>Communist China. In this case, it is so very blatant.
>
>Those advocating most-favored-nation status, or as it is called now,
>normal trade relations, have always based their case on the boon to
>our country represented by the sale of American goods to ``the
>world's largest market.'' That is their argument. Here on this floor
>over and over and over again we heard people say, ``We have to
>have these normal trade relations because we have to sell our
>products, the products made by the American people, to the world's
>largest market.''
>
>This Is Free Trade?
>
>That is a great pitch. The only problem is, it is not true. The sale of
>U.S.-produced vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, autos, you name the
>commercial item, are almost a non-factor in the trade relationship
>between our countries. They are a minuscule amount of what is
>considered the trade analysis of these two countries.
>
>During these many years that we have given China
>most-favored-nation status or normal trade relations, the power elite
>there never lowered China's tariffs, and in fact increased the tariffs
>in some areas, and erected barriers to prevent the sale of all but a
>few U.S.-made products.
>
>So while we had low tariffs, and intentionally brought our tariffs down
>by most-favored-nation, for over a decade, even as China was
>slipping more into tyranny, they were permitted to have high tariffs
>and block our goods from coming in.
>
>Beijing would not permit its own people to buy American-made
>consumer items. They were not looking for a trade relationship with
>the United States for their people to be able to buy American
>products. That is not what they were looking for. That is not what it
>was all about. They knew it, but yet our people were told over and
>over and over and over and over again, ``Oh, we have to have
>most-favored-nation status and normal trade relations in order to sell
>American products to the world's largest market.''
>
>That is not what was going on. It is not what the reality was. Instead,
>the Communist Chinese were out to get American money, lots of it,
>and American money to build factories, and they wanted the
>Americans to build the factories with our technology and our money
>in their country.
>
>By the way, many of the factories that were built there were not built
>in order to sell products to the Chinese people. Those factories
>were built to export products to the United States.
>
>The system that developed with the acquiescence of our
>government, and this is no secret, what I am talking about tonight is
>no secret to anyone except to the American people, our government
>acquiesced to this for years, this policy put the American people, the
>American working people, on the losing end of the transformational
>action in the long run and sometimes even in the medium run.
>
>The Chinese, because of our low tariffs, flooded our market with
>their products, and blocked our goods from entering China, and all
>the while we were hearing over and over again, ``We must have
>most-favored-nation status in order to sell American products in the
>world's largest market.''
>
>They droned on year after year that most-favored-nation status was
>so important to selling our products in the world's largest market. I
>will just repeat that four or five times, because we must have heard it
>a thousand times on this floor, and every time said, I am sure, in
>complete sincerity by the people who were expressing it, but were
>totally wrong. A very quick look into the statistics could have
>indicated that.
>
>Taiwan a Better Customer
>
>By the way, just to let members know, the people of Taiwan,
>numbering 22 million people, buy more from us annually than the 1.2
>Chinese on the mainland. The Taiwanese, with 22 million people,
>buy more consumer products from us than do 1.2 billion Chinese in
>the mainland.
>
>What has happened? What has happened as a result of these
>nonsensical counterproductive policies, anti-American policies to
>some degree, even though our own government has acquiesced in
>them? It has resulted in a decline in domestic manufacturing
>facilities in the United States. In other words, we have been closing
>down our factories and putting our people out of work.
>
>By the way, that does not mean the company is put out of business.
>Those factories spring up someplace else. There is this flood of
>Chinese products, the factory closes down, and guess where it
>reopens? It reopens, yes, in Communist China, using our modern
>technology and our capital, which is what the Chinese want to have
>invested in their country.
>
>Taxing Americans to Help Communism
>
>Adding insult to injury, our working people, some of them, whose
>jobs are being threatened by imports, our working people are being
>taxed in order to provide taxpayer-subsidized loans and loan
>guarantees for those corporate leaders wishing to close down their
>operations in the United States and set up on the mainland of China.
>
>Even if China was a free country, that would not be a good idea. I do
>not believe we should be doing that even for democratic countries.
>But for us to do that to a Communist dictatorship or any kind of
>dictatorship, to have the American taxpayer subsidize these
>investments, taking the risks on the shoulders of the American
>taxpayer in order to build the economy of a vicious dictatorship, this
>is insane. This is an insane policy. This is not free trade between
>free people. It has nothing to do with free trade. It is subsidized trade
>with subjugated people.
>
>Companies that were permitted to sell their product to the Chinese
>in these last 10 years, and there have been a few, companies like
>Boeing who have attempted to sell airplanes to China, have found
>themselves in a very bad predicament. As part of the deal enabling
>them to sell planes now to Communist China, they have had to set
>up manufacturing facilities in China to build the parts, or at least
>some of the parts for the airplane.
>
>Thus, over a period of time, what the Chinese have managed to do
>is to have the United States just build factories and pay for them. Or,
>as part of an agreement to sell the airplane, we have set up an
>aerospace industry in China that will compete with our own
>aerospace industry.
>
>I come from California. I come from a district in which aerospace is
>a mighty important part of our economy. I just want to thank all the
>people who have permitted this policy, this blackmail of American
>companies, to go on under the name, under the guise of free trade.
>It is going to sell out our own national interest 10 years down the
>road when these people will have a modern aerospace industry
>building weapons and being able to undercut our own people. Gee,
>thanks.
>
>Making matters worse, many of the so-called companies in China
>that are partnering with American industrialists, and American
>industrialists, when they are going to build in China, are often
>required to have a Chinese company as their partner as a
>prerequisite to them investing in China, in short order these
>so-called partners end up taking over the company. So many of
>American companies have been there and have been burned.
>
>Guess what, we look at these private Chinese companies that were
>partners with our American firms, we look at them, and what do we
>find out? They are not private companies at all. Many of them are
>subsidiaries of the People's Liberation Army. That is right, the
>Communist Chinese army owns these companies. These are
>nothing more than military people in civilian clothing. Their profits
>end up paying for weapons targeting America, and we are paying
>them to build the companies that make those profits.
>
>'Alarming Betrayal of American Security'
>
>Perhaps the most alarming betrayal of American national security
>interests surfaced about 5 years ago when some of America's
>biggest aerospace firms went into China hoping to use Chinese
>rockets to launch American satellites. They were trying to make a
>fast buck. It did not cost them a lot more to launch satellites here.
>
>Yes, the Chinese were insisting that any satellites we put up for them
>be put up on their rockets. I personally thought that, as long as we
>made sure there was no technology transfer, that was an okay
>policy. As long as we just launched our American satellite which
>helped them set up a telephone system or something in China, that
>is fine if they never got ahold of it, and that would be okay.
>
>I was guaranteed, along with the other Members of this body, there
>would be incredible safeguards. The last administration briefed us
>on the safeguards. Then as soon as we approved of letting these
>satellite deals go through and our satellites be launched on Chinese
>rockets, the administration trash canned all of the safeguards. I do
>not understand it. I do not understand why people did this.
>
>But when all was said and done, the Communist Chinese rocket
>arsenal was filled with more reliable and more capable rockets,
>thanks to Loral, Hughes and other aerospace firms. Communist
>Chinese rockets, which were a joke 10 years ago, when Bill Clinton
>became President of the United States, they were a joke, one out of
>10 failed, exploded before they could get into space. Today they are
>dramatically more likely to hit their targets, and they even carry
>multiple warheads. Where before they had one warhead and nine
>out of 10 would explode, now about 9 out of 10 get to their target,
>and some of them are carrying multiple warheads.
>
>The Cox Report
>
>The Cox report detailed this travesty. We should not forget the Cox
>report. Unfortunately, there has been innuendo after innuendo as if
>the Cox report has in some way been proven wrong. There are no
>reports that indicate that what the gentleman from California (Mr.
>COX) and his task force proved has in some way been discredited.
>In fact, there was a transfer of technology to the Communist Chinese
>that did great damage to our national security and put millions of
>American lives at risk that did not have to be put at risk.
>
>Yet, even with all this staring Congress in the face, we have
>continued to give Most Favored Nations status to China and even
>now vote to make them part of the World Trade Organization. Why?
>One explanation, well just bad theory. Expanding trade, of course,
>they believe will make things better. But expanding trade did not
>make things better. Expanding trade with a dictatorship, as I have
>mentioned, just expands the power base and solidifies the bad guys
>in power.
>
>Of course the other explanation of why all this is going on, why we
>end up seeing our national security trashed is pure greed on some
>individuals' parts.
>
>Our businessmen have been blinded, not by the dream of selling
>U.S.-made products to China as they would have you believe in the
>debates here on the floor of the House, but rather blinded by the
>vision of using virtually slave labor for quick profits on the mainland
>of China.
>
>With little or no competition, no negotiators, no lawyers, no
>environmental restrictions, no unions, no public consent, it sounds
>like a businessman's dream to me. Yes, it is a businessman's
>dream if you just blot out the picture of a grinding tyranny and the
>human rights abuses that are going on and the horrible threat to the
>United States of America that is emerging because of the things
>that are going on and the things that are being done.
>
>Because you are a businessman, because you are engaged in
>making a profit as we are free to do in the United States does not
>exempt you from being a patriot or being loyal to the security
>interests of the United States of America.
>
>Today's American overseas businessman quite often is a far cry
>from the Yankee clipper captains of days gone by. In those days, our
>Yankee clipper ships sailed the ocean, cut through those seas, the
>Seven Seas. They were full going over, and they were full coming
>back. They waived our flag. Our flag was flying from those clipper
>ships, and our flag stood for freedom and justice. Those Yankee
>clipper captains and those business entrepreneurs were proud to
>be Americans.
>
>Today, America's tycoons often see nationalism, read that loyalty to
>the United States, as an antiquated notion. They are players in the
>global economy now, they feel. Patriotism they believe is old think.
>
>Well, we cannot rely on the decisions of people like this to
>determine what the interests of the United States of America is to
>be. Yet, the influence of these billionaires and these tycoons, these
>people who would be willing to invest in a dictatorship or a
>democracy, they could care less which one, they do not care if there
>is blood dripping off the hand that hands them the dollar bills, those
>individuals influence our government. Their influence on this elected
>body is monumental, if not insurmountable at times.
>
>'People Must Be Free'
>
>I believe in capitalism. I am a capitalist. I am someone who believes
>in the free enterprise system, make no mistake about it. But free is
>the ultimate word. People must be free to be involved in enterprise.
>We must respect the basic tenets of liberty and justice that have
>provided us a country in which people are free to uplift themselves
>through hard work and through enterprise.
>
>Today, more often than not, we are talking about how people are
>trying to find out ways of manipulating government on how to make a
>profit, not how to build a better product that will enrich everyone's life
>and make a profit by doing that, which is the essence of the free
>enterprise system.
>
>More and more people are not even looking again to this great
>country and considering this great country for the role that it is
>playing in this world and how important it is and how we should
>never sacrifice the security of this country. Because if this country
>falls, the hope for freedom and justice everywhere in the world falls.
>No, instead they have put their baskets, not in the United States of
>America, put their eggs in the basket of globalism. Well, globalism
>will not work without democratic reform.
>
>China will corrupt the WTO, the World Trade Organization, just as it
>has corrupted the election processes in the United States of
>America. You can see it now 20 years from now, maybe 10 years
>from now, the panels of the WTO, you know, made up of countries
>from all over the world, Latin America, Africa, Middle East. There
>are members of those panels making these decisions, they will not
>have ever been elected by anybody, much less the people of the
>United States of America, yet we will be expected to follow their
>dictates. Communist China, they will pay those people off in a
>heartbeat. Why not? They did it to our people.
>
>The Clinton-Gore Scandals
>
>Remember the campaign contributions given to Vice President
>Gore at the Buddhist Temple? Remember the money delivered to
>the Clinton's by Johnny Chung? Where did that money come from?
>We are talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars. Where did it
>come from? It originated with Chinese military officers.
>
>These military officers were wearing civilian clothes. They were top
>officers in that part of the People's Liberation Army that produces
>missiles. That is where the money came from, all this while our most
>deadly missile technology was being transferred to Communist
>China. One wonders why the Communist Chinese leaders are
>arrogant and think that American leaders are cowards and corrupt
>when we let this happen.
>
>Our country has, in short, had a disastrously counterproductive
>policy. We have, over the last 10 years, built our worst potential
>enemy from a weak, introverted power into a powerful economic
>military force, a force that is looking to dominate all of Asia. When I
>say worst potential enemy, that is not just my assessment. That is
>what the Communist Chinese leaders themselves believe and are
>planning for.
>
>Why do you think Communist Chinese boss Jiang Zemin recently
>visited Cuba? He was in Cuba with Fidel Castro who hates our guts
>when he released the hostages, the American military personnel
>that he was holding hostage. What do you think that was all about?
>He was telling the whole world we are standing up to the United
>States of America, and they are our enemy. He was involved with an
>activity that was declaring to the world his hostility towards the
>United States.
>
>Why, when you have a country like this who are professing hostility
>to the United States and doing such as this, why are we permitting
>them to buy up ports that will effectively give them control of the
>Panama Canal, which is what they did a year and a half ago.
>
>Giving China the Panama Canal
>
>The Panama Canal, the last administration let the Chinese, the
>Communist Chinese, through bribery, tremendously expand its
>power in Panama and, through bribery, let it get control of the port
>facilities at both ends of the Panama Canal. Why would we let such
>a thing happen?
>
>In many ways, we are repeating history. In the 1920s, Japanese
>militarists wiped out Japan's fledgling democratic movement. That it
>did. In doing so, it set a course for Japan. Japan then was a racist
>power which believed it, too, had a right to dominate Asia.
>Japanese militarists also knew that only the United States of
>America stood in their way. This is deja vu all over again as Yogi
>Berra once said.
>
>The Communist Chinese, too, are militarists who seek to dominate
>Asia. They think they are racially superior to everyone. They are
>unlike their Japanese predecessors, however, willing to go slow,
>and they have been going slow. But make no mistake about it, they
>intend to dominate Asia, all of it. And even know, their maps claim
>Siberia, Mongolia and huge chunks of the South China Sea.
>
>The confrontation with our surveillance plane must be reviewed in
>this perspective if the damage to the United States and the
>imprudence and arrogance on the part of the communist Chinese
>are to be understood.
>
>China's claim on the South China Sea includes the Spratley Islands.
>I have a map of the South China Sea with me tonight. Hainan Island.
>Our airplane was intercepted, knocked out of the sky somewhere in
>here. But what we are not told about and what the media is not
>focusing on and no one has been talking about is this plane was
>precisely in the waters between Hainan Island and the Spratley
>Islands.
>
>For those who do not know what the Spratley Islands are, they are
>just a series of reefs that are under water at high tide and at low tide
>above water. They are just a short distance, as you can see, this is
>here, this is the Philippines; and right about 100 miles offshore, the
>Spratley Islands. Yet they are several hundred miles from China. Yet
>the Chinese are trying to claim these islands. That is what this was
>all about. Not only are these islands, the Spratley Islands, the home
>of natural gas and oil deposits, but they are also in a strategic
>location. The Spratly Islands, having them in China's power, having
>them being recognized as part of China, would, of course, be a
>disaster to the Philippines whose oil and gas that belongs to, but
>also it would give the Communist Chinese sovereignty rights which
>would permit them to bracket the South China Sea. China, Hainan
>Island, the Spratlys would bracket the South China Sea, from this
>land point to this land point. Thus, we have a situation where when
>China claims, which it does, a 200-mile zone, that would leave
>China with a stranglehold on the South China Sea which is one of
>the most important commercial areas on this planet. It would have a
>stranglehold on Japan and Korea.
>
>What do you think our friends in the Persian Gulf, for example, would
>think about it if they understood that this was a power play, that what
>we had with the surveillance aircraft was a power play? The reason
>why the Communist Chinese were demanding an apology then, they
>were demanding an apology because supposedly we were in their
>airspace. If we apologized, that was a recognition of their
>sovereignty in bracketing with the Spratly Islands on one side and
>Hainan Island on the other side, bracketing the South China Sea. If
>we ended up apologizing to the Communist regime, it would have
>been taken as a legal recognition, a small one, of their sovereignty
>and their 200-mile limit. That is what this was all about. That is why
>they were playing hardball with us.
>
>The American people and our allies are not being told that that is
>what the stakes were. This is a long-term effort on the part of the
>Communist Chinese to dominate the South China Sea and expand
>their power so they could call it maybe the Communist China Sea
>rather than the South China Sea. It behooves us to face these facts.
>That is what it was all about. That is why they wanted an apology and
>that is why they should not have gotten an apology.
>
>I applaud this administration for wording its letter in a way that was
>not and could not in any way be interpreted as a recognition of the
>Chinese sovereignty over that airspace. An accommodationist
>policy toward Communist China, ignoring this type of aggression,
>ignoring human rights and democracy concerns while stressing
>expanded trade, and even through all this you have a bunch of
>people saying, ``Oh, isn't it lucky we have trade relations or we
>would really be in trouble with the Communist Chinese.'' Give me a
>break. But ignoring those other elements and just stressing trade as
>part of a so-called engagement theory has not worked.
>
>The regime in China is more powerful, more belligerent to the
>United States and more repressive than ever before. President
>Bush's decision in the wake of this incident at Hainan Island to sell
>an arms package to Taiwan including destroyers, submarines and
>an antiaircraft upgrade was good. At least it shows more moxie than
>what the last administration did.
>
>I would have preferred to see the Aegis system be provided to our
>Taiwanese friends. But at least we have gone forward with a
>respectable arms deal that will help Taiwan defend itself and thus
>deter military action in that area.
>
>Cancel 'All U.S. Military Exchanges' With China
>
>But after the Hainan Island incident, the very least we should be
>doing is canceling all U.S. military exchanges with Communist
>China. I mean, I do not know if they are still delivering us those
>berets or not, but that is just ridiculous to think that we are getting our
>military berets from Communist China. We should cancel all military
>exchanges.
>
>The American people should be put on alert that they are in danger
>if they travel to the mainland of China. And we should quit using our
>tax dollars through the Export-Import Bank, the IMF and the World
>Bank to subsidize big business when they want to build a factory in
>China or in any other dictatorship.
>
>Why are we helping Vietnam and China? Why are we helping those
>dictatorships when nearby people, the people of the Philippines,
>whom I just mentioned, who are on the front line against this
>Communist aggression, who China is trying to flood drugs into their
>country. The Chinese army itself is involved in the drug trade going
>into the Philippines.
>
>The Philippines are struggling to have a democracy. They have just
>had to remove a president who is being bribed. Bribed by whom?
>Bribed by organized crime figures from the mainland of China.
>When those people in the Philippines are struggling, why are we not
>trying to help them?
>
>Let us not encourage American businesses to go to Vietnam or to
>Communist China, when you have got people right close by who are
>struggling to have a democratic government and love the United
>States of America. The people of the Philippines are strong and
>they love their freedom and their liberty, but they feel like they have
>been abandoned by the United States. And when we help factories
>to be set up in China rather than sending work to the Philippines,
>and they do not even have the money to buy the weapons to defend
>themselves in the Philippines. That is why it is important for us to
>stand tall, so they know they can count on us. But they can only count
>on us if we do what is right and have the courage to stand up.
>
>The same with China and India. India is not my favorite country in the
>world, but I will tell you this much, the Indians are struggling to have a
>free and democratic society. They have democratic institutions, and
>it is a struggle because they have so many varied people that live in
>India. But they are struggling to make their country better and to
>have a democratic system and to have rights and have a court
>system that functions, to have opposition newspapers. They do not
>have any of that in China. Yet instead of helping the Indian people,
>we are helping the Communist Chinese people? This is misplaced
>priorities at best.
>
>Finally, in this atmosphere of turmoil and confrontation, let us never
>forget who are our greatest allies, and that is the Chinese people
>themselves. Let no mistake in the wording that I have used tonight
>indicate that I hold the Chinese people accountable or synonymous
>with the Chinese government or with Beijing or with the Communist
>Party in China. The people of China are as freedom-loving and as
>pro-American as any people of the world.
>
>The people of China are not separated from the rest of humanity.
>They too want freedom and honest government. They want to
>improve their lives. They do not want a corrupt dictatorship over
>them. And any struggle for peace and prosperity, any plan for our
>country to try to bring peace to the world and to bring a better life
>and to support the cause of freedom must include the people of
>China.
>
>We do not want war. We want the people of China to be free. Then
>we could have free and open trade because it would be a free
>country and it would be free trade between free people instead of
>this travesty that we have today, which is a trade policy that
>strengthens the dictatorship.
>
>When the young people of China rose up and gathered together at
>Tiananmen Square, they used our Statue of Liberty as a model for
>their own goddess of liberty. That was the statue that they held forth.
>That was their dream. They dreamed that her torch, the goddess of
>liberty, would enlighten all China and they dreamed of a China
>democratic, prosperous and free. Our shortsighted policy of
>subsidized one-way trade crushes that goddess of liberty every bit
>as much as those Red Army tanks did 12 years ago.
>
>'Re-examine Our Souls'
>
>Let us re-examine our souls. Let us re-examine our policies. Let us
>reach out to the people of China and claim together that we are all
>people of this planet, as our forefathers said, we are the ones, we
>are the people who have been given by God the rights of life, liberty
>and the pursuit of happiness. That is not just for Americans. That is
>for all the people of the world.
>
>And when we recognize that and reach out with honesty and not for
>a quick buck, not just to make a quick buck and then get out, but
>instead to reach over to those people and help them build their
>country, then we will have a future of peace and prosperity.
>
>It will not happen if we sell out our own national security interests. It
>will not happen if we are only siding with the ruling elite in China. We
>want to share a world with the people of China. We are on their side.
>
>Let me say this. That includes those soldiers in the People's
>Liberation Army. The people in the People's Liberation Army come
>from the population of China. They and those other forces at work in
>China should rise up and join with all the other people in the world,
>especially the American people, who believe in justice and truth; and
>we will wipe away those people at the negotiating table today that
>represent both sides of this negotiation, and we will sit face-to-face
>with all the people in the world who love justice and freedom and
>democracy, just as our forefathers thought was America's rightful
>role, and we will build a better world that way.
>
>We will not do it through a World Trade Organization. We will do it
>by respecting our own rights and respecting the rights of every other
>country and every other people on this planet.
>
>I hope that tonight the American people have heard these words.
>The course is not unalterable. This is a new administration. And in
>this new administration, I would hope that we reverse these horrible
>mistakes that have compromised our national security and
>undermined the cause of liberty and justice.
>
>I look forward to working with this administration to doing what is
>right for our country and right for the cause of peace and freedom.
>
>
>
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Re: Boycott China - please read - your life may depend on it

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I don't care about your F*cking country and its trade politics

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Horowitz" <ri...@yahoo.com>
To: "Horowitz" <ri...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 12:21 AM
Subject: Boycott China - please read - your life may depend on it


> Hello Everyone,
>
> The following speech, reprinted from www.newsmax.com, was made this
Tuesday
> night by U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of California. I urge you all
to
> read every word of this speech. I have been aware of much of the budding
> catastrophe we face regarding China, yet have not seen the issues
> articulated with anything near the clarity that Mr. Rohrabacher does in
> this speech.
>
> My wife and I began boycotting Chinese-made goods about a year ago in
> recognition of the reasons outlined here. I urge every one of you to
> forward this message to everyone in your email list, and begin boycotting
> Chinese goods immediately.
>
> My own brief summary of the issues:
>
> 1. Our extreme trade deficit vs. China (nearly $100B per year now) has
been
> used for a massive military buildup, with the U.S. as the ultimate target.
> 2. Russia is selling their most advanced arms to China, capable of
> destroying our aircraft carriers, including a supersonic torpedo
technology
> that is far beyond anything that we have and for which we have no defense.
> 3. Our leading defense contractors, including Loral, Boeing, Hughes,
> Motorola, and others have sold advanced military technology to China over
> the past few years, including technology that now enables Chinese
> nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles to accurately hit
> American cities, something they were not able to do prior to this transfer
> of technology.
> 4. The majority of the "partner" companies of U.S. ventures in China are
in
> fact owned and operated by the PLA (the People's Liberation Army - the
> Chinese army). These are not commercial interests.
> 5. The U.S. government (read you and I) have been providing tax breaks to
> American companies to close up factories in the U.S. and reopen them in
> China. These factories transfer advanced technology in many cases, put
> Americans out of work, and provide cash to the Chinese to further their
> military expansion.
>
> I hope these points and the following reprinted speech make you think long
> and hard about our position regarding China, and that you:
>
> 1. Start boycotting Chinese-made goods immediately
> 2. Send this message to everyone on your email list. Please don't be
> embarrassed to take a stand on this. I assure you, it is not my
imagination
> that China poses a significant threat to our safety and future, and we are
> giving them the money, technology, and weaponry to carry out their many
> threats already made against our country.
>
> Here's one informational link...I'm sure you can find may others yourself.
>
> PLEASE read Mr. Rohrabacher's speech, below:
>
> http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/chinamissiles_990409.html
> ....includes, "A Chinese official hinted at launching a nuclear weapon
> at Los Angeles in 1996, when U.S. warships confronted
> China over missile firings near Taiwan."
>
> Make no mistake about it. The Chinese government is a dictatorship, and is
> very dangerous.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Rick Horowitz
>
> Rohrabacher Slams U.S. Aid to China
>
> Rep. Dana Rohrabacher
> Thursday, April 26, 2001
>
> Editor's note: This is the text of a speech on the House floor by
> U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., Tuesday night.
>
> Mr. Speaker, one month ago, the Communist regime that controls
> the mainland of China attacked an American surveillance aircraft
> while it was in international waters. After being knocked out of the
> sky, 24 American military personnel, the crew of the surveillance
> craft, were held hostage for nearly 2 weeks. The Communist
> Chinese blamed us and would not return the crew until the United
> States was humiliated before the world.
>
> Wake up, America. What is going on here? Large financial interests
> in our country whose only goal is exploiting the cheap, near-slave
> labor of China have been leading our country down the path to
> catastrophe. How much more proof do we need that the so-called
> engagement theory is a total failure?
>
> Our massive investment in China, pushed and promoted by
> American billionaires and multinational corporations, has created
> not a more peaceful, democratic China, but an aggressive
> nuclear-armed bully that now threatens the world with its hostile acts
> and proliferation. Do the Communist Chinese have to murder
> American personnel or attack the United States or our allies with
> their missiles before those who blithesomely pontificate about the
> civilizing benefits of building the Chinese economy will admit that
> China for a decade has been going in the opposite direction than
> predicted by the so-called ``free traders.''
>
> 'We Have Made a Monstrous Mistake'
>
> We have made a monstrous mistake, and if we do not face reality
> and change our fundamental policies, instead of peace, there will be
> conflict. Instead of democratic reform, we will see a further
> retrenchment of a regime that is run by gangsters and thugs, the
> world's worst human rights abusers.
>
> Let us go back to basics. The mainland of China is controlled by a
> rigid, Stalinistic Communist party. The regime is committing
> genocide in Tibet. It is holding as a captive the designated
> successor of the Dalai Lama, who is the spiritual leader of the
> Tibetan people. By the way, this person, the designated new leader,
> is a little boy. They are holding hostage a little boy in order to
> terrorize the Tibetan people. The regime is now, at this moment,
> arresting thousands of members of the Falun Gong, which is nothing
> more threatening than a meditation and yoga society. Christians of
> all denominations are being brutalized unless they register with the
> state and attend controlled churches. Just in the last few days, there
> has been a round-up of Catholics who were practicing their faith
> outside of state control. Now they are in a Chinese prison.
>
> There are no opposition parties in China. There is no free press in
> China. China is not a free society under anyone's definition. More
> importantly, it is not a society that is evolving toward freedom.
>
> President Richard Nixon first established our ties with the
> Communist Chinese in 1972 at the height of the Cold War. That was
> a brilliant move. At that particular moment, it was a brilliant move. It
> enabled us to play the power of one dictatorship off the power of
> another dictatorship. We played one against the other at a time
> when we had been weakened by the Vietnam War and at a time
> when Soviet Russia was on the offensive.
>
> During the Reagan years, we dramatically expanded our ties to
> China, but do not miss the essential fact that justified that
> relationship and made it different than what has been going on
> these last 10 years. China was at that time, during the Reagan
> administration, evolving toward a freer, more open society, a
> growing democratic movement was evident, and the United States,
> our government and our people, fostered this movement. Under
> President Reagan, we brought tens of thousands of students here,
> and we sent teams from our National Endowment for Democracy
> there. We were working with them to build a more democratic
> society, and it looked like that was what was going to happen. All of
> this ended, of course, in Tiananmen Square over 10 years ago.
>
> 'Tanks to Wipe Out the Opposition'
>
> Thousands of Chinese gathered there in Tiananmen Square in
> Beijing to demand a more open and democratic government. For a
> moment, it appeared like there had been an historic breakthrough.
> Then, from out of the darkness came battle-hardened troops and
> tanks to wipe out the opposition. The people who ordered that
> attack are still holding the reins of power in China today and, like all
> other criminals who get away with scurrilous deeds, they have
> become emboldened and arrogant.
>
> My only lament is that had Ronald Reagan been president during
> that time of Tiananmen Square, things, I think, would have been
> different; but he was not. Since that turn of events about 12 years
> ago, things have been progressively worse. The repression is more
> evident than ever. The belligerence and hostility of Beijing is even
> more open. Underscoring the insanity of it all, the Communist
> Chinese have been using their huge trade surplus with the United
> States to upgrade their military and expand its warfighting
> capabilities.
>
> Communist China's arsenal of jets, its ballistic missiles, its naval
> forces have all been modernized and reinforced. In the last 2 years,
> they have purchased destroyers from the former Soviet Union.
> These destroyers are armed with Sunburn missiles. These were
> systems that were designed during the Cold War by the Russians to
> destroy American aircraft carriers.
>
> Yes, the Communist Chinese are arming themselves to sink
> American aircraft carriers, to kill thousands upon thousands of
> American sailors. Make no mistake about it, China's military might
> now threatens America and world peace. If there is a crisis in that
> part of the world again, which there will be, we can predict that some
> day, unlike the last crisis when American aircraft carriers were able
> to become a peaceful element to bring moderation of judgment
> among the players who were in conflict, instead, American aircraft
> carriers will find themselves vulnerable, and an American President
> will have to face the choice of risking the lives of all of those sailors
> on those aircraft carriers.
>
> Mr. Speaker, how is it, then, that a relatively poor country can afford
> to enlarge its military in such a way, to the point that it can threaten a
> superpower such as the United States of America?
>
> Even as China's slide into tyranny and militarism continued in these
> last 12 years, the United States government has permitted a totally
> indefensible economic rules of engagement to guide our
> commercial ties with the mainland of China.
>
> While China was going in the right direction, permitting that country
> to have a large trade advantage and thus providing a large reserve
> of hard currency may or may not have made sense, as long as
> China was going in the right direction and going towards
> democracy. Maybe we would like to build up a freer China that way.
>
> It 'Makes No Sense' to Help Arm China
>
> But it made no sense, and it still makes no sense, for the United
> States to permit a country that is sinking even deeper into tyranny
> and into anti-Western hostility to have a huge trade surplus as a
> resource to call upon to meet their military needs.
>
> In effect, the Communist Chinese have been using the tens of
> billions of dollars of trade surplus with the United States each year to
> build their military power and military might so some day the
> Communist Chinese might be able to kill millions of our people, or at
> least to threaten us to do that in order to back us down into defeat
> without ever coming to a fight.
>
> We have essentially been arming and equipping our worst potential
> enemy and financing our own destruction. How could we let such a
> crime against the security of our country happen? Well, it was
> argued by some very sincere people that free trade would bring
> positive change to China, and that engagement would civilize the
> Communist regime.
>
> Even as evidence stacked upon more evidence indicated that
> China was not liberalizing, that just the opposite was happening, the
> barkers for open markets kept singing their song:
> ``Most-favored-nation status, just give us this and things will get
> better.'' It was nonsense then and it is nonsense today. But after all
> that has happened, one would think that the shame factor would
> silence these eternal optimists.
>
> Perhaps I am a bit sensitive because, first and foremost, let me
> state unequivocally that I consider myself a free trader. Yes, I believe
> in free trade between free people. What we should strive for is to
> have more and more open trade with all free and democratic
> countries, or countries that are heading in the right direction.
>
> I am thus positively inclined towards President Bush's efforts to
> establish a free trade zone among the democratic countries in this
> hemisphere. I will read the fine print, but my inclination is to
facilitate
> trade between democracies.
>
> When I say, ``I will read the fine print,'' I will be especially concerned
> with a free trade agreement, and I will be looking to that free trade
> agreement to make sure that we have protection that our sensitive
> technologies, which can be used for military purposes, will not be
> transferred from the countries in our hemisphere, democratic
> countries in our hemisphere, to China or to any other countries that
> are potential enemies of the United States. This will have to be in
> that free trade agreement.
>
> There will have to be protections against the transfer of our
> technology to our enemies. This is more of a concern following new
> science and technology agreements that were signed by China and
> countries like Brazil and Venezuela recently. Dictatorships are
> always going to try to gain in any agreement that they have with us,
> and they are always going to try to manipulate other agreements
> and the rules of the game so they can stay in power.
>
> When one applies the rules of free trade to a controlled society, as
> we have been told over and over again, more trade, and let us have
> free trade with China, that is going to make them more dependent
> on us and they will be freer and more prosperous, more likely to be
> peaceful people, well, if we apply the rules of free trade to a
> dictatorship, ultimately what happens is that it is only free trade in
> one direction.
>
> On one end we have free people, a democratic people who are not
> controlled by their government, and thus are basically unregulated
> and are moving forward for their own benefit. But on the other end,
> the trade will be controlled and manipulated to ensure that the
> current establishment of that country stays in power.
>
> Never has that been more evident than in America's dealing with
> Communist China. In this case, it is so very blatant.
>
> Those advocating most-favored-nation status, or as it is called now,
> normal trade relations, have always based their case on the boon to
> our country represented by the sale of American goods to ``the
> world's largest market.'' That is their argument. Here on this floor
> over and over and over again we heard people say, ``We have to
> have these normal trade relations because we have to sell our
> products, the products made by the American people, to the world's
> largest market.''
>
> This Is Free Trade?
>
> That is a great pitch. The only problem is, it is not true. The sale of
> U.S.-produced vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, autos, you name the
> commercial item, are almost a non-factor in the trade relationship
> between our countries. They are a minuscule amount of what is
> considered the trade analysis of these two countries.
>
> During these many years that we have given China
> most-favored-nation status or normal trade relations, the power elite
> there never lowered China's tariffs, and in fact increased the tariffs
> in some areas, and erected barriers to prevent the sale of all but a
> few U.S.-made products.
>
> So while we had low tariffs, and intentionally brought our tariffs down
> by most-favored-nation, for over a decade, even as China was
> slipping more into tyranny, they were permitted to have high tariffs
> and block our goods from coming in.
>
> Beijing would not permit its own people to buy American-made
> consumer items. They were not looking for a trade relationship with
> the United States for their people to be able to buy American
> products. That is not what they were looking for. That is not what it
> was all about. They knew it, but yet our people were told over and
> over and over and over and over again, ``Oh, we have to have
> most-favored-nation status and normal trade relations in order to sell
> American products to the world's largest market.''
>
> That is not what was going on. It is not what the reality was. Instead,
> the Communist Chinese were out to get American money, lots of it,
> and American money to build factories, and they wanted the
> Americans to build the factories with our technology and our money
> in their country.
>
> By the way, many of the factories that were built there were not built
> in order to sell products to the Chinese people. Those factories
> were built to export products to the United States.
>
> The system that developed with the acquiescence of our
> government, and this is no secret, what I am talking about tonight is
> no secret to anyone except to the American people, our government
> acquiesced to this for years, this policy put the American people, the
> American working people, on the losing end of the transformational
> action in the long run and sometimes even in the medium run.
>
> The Chinese, because of our low tariffs, flooded our market with
> their products, and blocked our goods from entering China, and all
> the while we were hearing over and over again, ``We must have
> most-favored-nation status in order to sell American products in the
> world's largest market.''
>
> They droned on year after year that most-favored-nation status was
> so important to selling our products in the world's largest market. I
> will just repeat that four or five times, because we must have heard it
> a thousand times on this floor, and every time said, I am sure, in
> complete sincerity by the people who were expressing it, but were
> totally wrong. A very quick look into the statistics could have
> indicated that.
>
> Taiwan a Better Customer
>
> By the way, just to let members know, the people of Taiwan,
> numbering 22 million people, buy more from us annually than the 1.2
> Chinese on the mainland. The Taiwanese, with 22 million people,
> buy more consumer products from us than do 1.2 billion Chinese in
> the mainland.
>
> What has happened? What has happened as a result of these
> nonsensical counterproductive policies, anti-American policies to
> some degree, even though our own government has acquiesced in
> them? It has resulted in a decline in domestic manufacturing
> facilities in the United States. In other words, we have been closing
> down our factories and putting our people out of work.
>
> By the way, that does not mean the company is put out of business.
> Those factories spring up someplace else. There is this flood of
> Chinese products, the factory closes down, and guess where it
> reopens? It reopens, yes, in Communist China, using our modern
> technology and our capital, which is what the Chinese want to have
> invested in their country.
>
> Taxing Americans to Help Communism
>
> Adding insult to injury, our working people, some of them, whose
> jobs are being threatened by imports, our working people are being
> taxed in order to provide taxpayer-subsidized loans and loan
> guarantees for those corporate leaders wishing to close down their
> operations in the United States and set up on the mainland of China.
>
> Even if China was a free country, that would not be a good idea. I do
> not believe we should be doing that even for democratic countries.
> But for us to do that to a Communist dictatorship or any kind of
> dictatorship, to have the American taxpayer subsidize these
> investments, taking the risks on the shoulders of the American
> taxpayer in order to build the economy of a vicious dictatorship, this
> is insane. This is an insane policy. This is not free trade between
> free people. It has nothing to do with free trade. It is subsidized trade
> with subjugated people.
>
> Companies that were permitted to sell their product to the Chinese
> in these last 10 years, and there have been a few, companies like
> Boeing who have attempted to sell airplanes to China, have found
> themselves in a very bad predicament. As part of the deal enabling
> them to sell planes now to Communist China, they have had to set
> up manufacturing facilities in China to build the parts, or at least
> some of the parts for the airplane.
>
> Thus, over a period of time, what the Chinese have managed to do
> is to have the United States just build factories and pay for them. Or,
> as part of an agreement to sell the airplane, we have set up an
> aerospace industry in China that will compete with our own
> aerospace industry.
>
> I come from California. I come from a district in which aerospace is
> a mighty important part of our economy. I just want to thank all the
> people who have permitted this policy, this blackmail of American
> companies, to go on under the name, under the guise of free trade.
> It is going to sell out our own national interest 10 years down the
> road when these people will have a modern aerospace industry
> building weapons and being able to undercut our own people. Gee,
> thanks.
>
> Making matters worse, many of the so-called companies in China
> that are partnering with American industrialists, and American
> industrialists, when they are going to build in China, are often
> required to have a Chinese company as their partner as a
> prerequisite to them investing in China, in short order these
> so-called partners end up taking over the company. So many of
> American companies have been there and have been burned.
>
> Guess what, we look at these private Chinese companies that were
> partners with our American firms, we look at them, and what do we
> find out? They are not private companies at all. Many of them are
> subsidiaries of the People's Liberation Army. That is right, the
> Communist Chinese army owns these companies. These are
> nothing more than military people in civilian clothing. Their profits
> end up paying for weapons targeting America, and we are paying
> them to build the companies that make those profits.
>
> 'Alarming Betrayal of American Security'
>
> Perhaps the most alarming betrayal of American national security
> interests surfaced about 5 years ago when some of America's
> biggest aerospace firms went into China hoping to use Chinese
> rockets to launch American satellites. They were trying to make a
> fast buck. It did not cost them a lot more to launch satellites here.
>
> Yes, the Chinese were insisting that any satellites we put up for them
> be put up on their rockets. I personally thought that, as long as we
> made sure there was no technology transfer, that was an okay
> policy. As long as we just launched our American satellite which
> helped them set up a telephone system or something in China, that
> is fine if they never got ahold of it, and that would be okay.
>
> I was guaranteed, along with the other Members of this body, there
> would be incredible safeguards. The last administration briefed us
> on the safeguards. Then as soon as we approved of letting these
> satellite deals go through and our satellites be launched on Chinese
> rockets, the administration trash canned all of the safeguards. I do
> not understand it. I do not understand why people did this.
>
> But when all was said and done, the Communist Chinese rocket
> arsenal was filled with more reliable and more capable rockets,
> thanks to Loral, Hughes and other aerospace firms. Communist
> Chinese rockets, which were a joke 10 years ago, when Bill Clinton
> became President of the United States, they were a joke, one out of
> 10 failed, exploded before they could get into space. Today they are
> dramatically more likely to hit their targets, and they even carry
> multiple warheads. Where before they had one warhead and nine
> out of 10 would explode, now about 9 out of 10 get to their target,
> and some of them are carrying multiple warheads.
>
> The Cox Report
>
> The Cox report detailed this travesty. We should not forget the Cox
> report. Unfortunately, there has been innuendo after innuendo as if
> the Cox report has in some way been proven wrong. There are no
> reports that indicate that what the gentleman from California (Mr.
> COX) and his task force proved has in some way been discredited.
> In fact, there was a transfer of technology to the Communist Chinese
> that did great damage to our national security and put millions of
> American lives at risk that did not have to be put at risk.
>
> Yet, even with all this staring Congress in the face, we have
> continued to give Most Favored Nations status to China and even
> now vote to make them part of the World Trade Organization. Why?
> One explanation, well just bad theory. Expanding trade, of course,
> they believe will make things better. But expanding trade did not
> make things better. Expanding trade with a dictatorship, as I have
> mentioned, just expands the power base and solidifies the bad guys
> in power.
>
> Of course the other explanation of why all this is going on, why we
> end up seeing our national security trashed is pure greed on some
> individuals' parts.
>
> Our businessmen have been blinded, not by the dream of selling
> U.S.-made products to China as they would have you believe in the
> debates here on the floor of the House, but rather blinded by the
> vision of using virtually slave labor for quick profits on the mainland
> of China.
>
> With little or no competition, no negotiators, no lawyers, no
> environmental restrictions, no unions, no public consent, it sounds
> like a businessman's dream to me. Yes, it is a businessman's
> dream if you just blot out the picture of a grinding tyranny and the
> human rights abuses that are going on and the horrible threat to the
> United States of America that is emerging because of the things
> that are going on and the things that are being done.
>
> Because you are a businessman, because you are engaged in
> making a profit as we are free to do in the United States does not
> exempt you from being a patriot or being loyal to the security
> interests of the United States of America.
>
> Today's American overseas businessman quite often is a far cry
> from the Yankee clipper captains of days gone by. In those days, our
> Yankee clipper ships sailed the ocean, cut through those seas, the
> Seven Seas. They were full going over, and they were full coming
> back. They waived our flag. Our flag was flying from those clipper
> ships, and our flag stood for freedom and justice. Those Yankee
> clipper captains and those business entrepreneurs were proud to
> be Americans.
>
> Today, America's tycoons often see nationalism, read that loyalty to
> the United States, as an antiquated notion. They are players in the
> global economy now, they feel. Patriotism they believe is old think.
>
> Well, we cannot rely on the decisions of people like this to
> determine what the interests of the United States of America is to
> be. Yet, the influence of these billionaires and these tycoons, these
> people who would be willing to invest in a dictatorship or a
> democracy, they could care less which one, they do not care if there
> is blood dripping off the hand that hands them the dollar bills, those
> individuals influence our government. Their influence on this elected
> body is monumental, if not insurmountable at times.
>
> 'People Must Be Free'
>
> I believe in capitalism. I am a capitalist. I am someone who believes
> in the free enterprise system, make no mistake about it. But free is
> the ultimate word. People must be free to be involved in enterprise.
> We must respect the basic tenets of liberty and justice that have
> provided us a country in which people are free to uplift themselves
> through hard work and through enterprise.
>
> Today, more often than not, we are talking about how people are
> trying to find out ways of manipulating government on how to make a
> profit, not how to build a better product that will enrich everyone's life
> and make a profit by doing that, which is the essence of the free
> enterprise system.
>
> More and more people are not even looking again to this great
> country and considering this great country for the role that it is
> playing in this world and how important it is and how we should
> never sacrifice the security of this country. Because if this country
> falls, the hope for freedom and justice everywhere in the world falls.
> No, instead they have put their baskets, not in the United States of
> America, put their eggs in the basket of globalism. Well, globalism
> will not work without democratic reform.
>
> China will corrupt the WTO, the World Trade Organization, just as it
> has corrupted the election processes in the United States of
> America. You can see it now 20 years from now, maybe 10 years
> from now, the panels of the WTO, you know, made up of countries
> from all over the world, Latin America, Africa, Middle East. There
> are members of those panels making these decisions, they will not
> have ever been elected by anybody, much less the people of the
> United States of America, yet we will be expected to follow their
> dictates. Communist China, they will pay those people off in a
> heartbeat. Why not? They did it to our people.
>
> The Clinton-Gore Scandals
>
> Remember the campaign contributions given to Vice President
> Gore at the Buddhist Temple? Remember the money delivered to
> the Clinton's by Johnny Chung? Where did that money come from?
> We are talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars. Where did it
> come from? It originated with Chinese military officers.
>
> These military officers were wearing civilian clothes. They were top
> officers in that part of the People's Liberation Army that produces
> missiles. That is where the money came from, all this while our most
> deadly missile technology was being transferred to Communist
> China. One wonders why the Communist Chinese leaders are
> arrogant and think that American leaders are cowards and corrupt
> when we let this happen.
>
> Our country has, in short, had a disastrously counterproductive
> policy. We have, over the last 10 years, built our worst potential
> enemy from a weak, introverted power into a powerful economic
> military force, a force that is looking to dominate all of Asia. When I
> say worst potential enemy, that is not just my assessment. That is
> what the Communist Chinese leaders themselves believe and are
> planning for.
>
> Why do you think Communist Chinese boss Jiang Zemin recently
> visited Cuba? He was in Cuba with Fidel Castro who hates our guts
> when he released the hostages, the American military personnel
> that he was holding hostage. What do you think that was all about?
> He was telling the whole world we are standing up to the United
> States of America, and they are our enemy. He was involved with an
> activity that was declaring to the world his hostility towards the
> United States.
>
> Why, when you have a country like this who are professing hostility
> to the United States and doing such as this, why are we permitting
> them to buy up ports that will effectively give them control of the
> Panama Canal, which is what they did a year and a half ago.
>
> Giving China the Panama Canal
>
> The Panama Canal, the last administration let the Chinese, the
> Communist Chinese, through bribery, tremendously expand its
> power in Panama and, through bribery, let it get control of the port
> facilities at both ends of the Panama Canal. Why would we let such
> a thing happen?
>
> In many ways, we are repeating history. In the 1920s, Japanese
> militarists wiped out Japan's fledgling democratic movement. That it
> did. In doing so, it set a course for Japan. Japan then was a racist
> power which believed it, too, had a right to dominate Asia.
> Japanese militarists also knew that only the United States of
> America stood in their way. This is deja vu all over again as Yogi
> Berra once said.
>
> The Communist Chinese, too, are militarists who seek to dominate
> Asia. They think they are racially superior to everyone. They are
> unlike their Japanese predecessors, however, willing to go slow,
> and they have been going slow. But make no mistake about it, they
> intend to dominate Asia, all of it. And even know, their maps claim
> Siberia, Mongolia and huge chunks of the South China Sea.
>
> The confrontation with our surveillance plane must be reviewed in
> this perspective if the damage to the United States and the
> imprudence and arrogance on the part of the communist Chinese
> are to be understood.
>
> China's claim on the South China Sea includes the Spratley Islands.
> I have a map of the South China Sea with me tonight. Hainan Island.
> Our airplane was intercepted, knocked out of the sky somewhere in
> here. But what we are not told about and what the media is not
> focusing on and no one has been talking about is this plane was
> precisely in the waters between Hainan Island and the Spratley
> Islands.
>
> For those who do not know what the Spratley Islands are, they are
> just a series of reefs that are under water at high tide and at low tide
> above water. They are just a short distance, as you can see, this is
> here, this is the Philippines; and right about 100 miles offshore, the
> Spratley Islands. Yet they are several hundred miles from China. Yet
> the Chinese are trying to claim these islands. That is what this was
> all about. Not only are these islands, the Spratley Islands, the home
> of natural gas and oil deposits, but they are also in a strategic
> location. The Spratly Islands, having them in China's power, having
> them being recognized as part of China, would, of course, be a
> disaster to the Philippines whose oil and gas that belongs to, but
> also it would give the Communist Chinese sovereignty rights which
> would permit them to bracket the South China Sea. China, Hainan
> Island, the Spratlys would bracket the South China Sea, from this
> land point to this land point. Thus, we have a situation where when
> China claims, which it does, a 200-mile zone, that would leave
> China with a stranglehold on the South China Sea which is one of
> the most important commercial areas on this planet. It would have a
> stranglehold on Japan and Korea.
>
> What do you think our friends in the Persian Gulf, for example, would
> think about it if they understood that this was a power play, that what
> we had with the surveillance aircraft was a power play? The reason
> why the Communist Chinese were demanding an apology then, they
> were demanding an apology because supposedly we were in their
> airspace. If we apologized, that was a recognition of their
> sovereignty in bracketing with the Spratly Islands on one side and
> Hainan Island on the other side, bracketing the South China Sea. If
> we ended up apologizing to the Communist regime, it would have
> been taken as a legal recognition, a small one, of their sovereignty
> and their 200-mile limit. That is what this was all about. That is why
> they were playing hardball with us.
>
> The American people and our allies are not being told that that is
> what the stakes were. This is a long-term effort on the part of the
> Communist Chinese to dominate the South China Sea and expand
> their power so they could call it maybe the Communist China Sea
> rather than the South China Sea. It behooves us to face these facts.
> That is what it was all about. That is why they wanted an apology and
> that is why they should not have gotten an apology.
>
> I applaud this administration for wording its letter in a way that was
> not and could not in any way be interpreted as a recognition of the
> Chinese sovereignty over that airspace. An accommodationist
> policy toward Communist China, ignoring this type of aggression,
> ignoring human rights and democracy concerns while stressing
> expanded trade, and even through all this you have a bunch of
> people saying, ``Oh, isn't it lucky we have trade relations or we
> would really be in trouble with the Communist Chinese.'' Give me a
> break. But ignoring those other elements and just stressing trade as
> part of a so-called engagement theory has not worked.
>
> The regime in China is more powerful, more belligerent to the
> United States and more repressive than ever before. President
> Bush's decision in the wake of this incident at Hainan Island to sell
> an arms package to Taiwan including destroyers, submarines and
> an antiaircraft upgrade was good. At least it shows more moxie than
> what the last administration did.
>
> I would have preferred to see the Aegis system be provided to our
> Taiwanese friends. But at least we have gone forward with a
> respectable arms deal that will help Taiwan defend itself and thus
> deter military action in that area.
>
> Cancel 'All U.S. Military Exchanges' With China
>
> But after the Hainan Island incident, the very least we should be
> doing is canceling all U.S. military exchanges with Communist
> China. I mean, I do not know if they are still delivering us those
> berets or not, but that is just ridiculous to think that we are getting
our
> military berets from Communist China. We should cancel all military
> exchanges.
>
> The American people should be put on alert that they are in danger
> if they travel to the mainland of China. And we should quit using our
> tax dollars through the Export-Import Bank, the IMF and the World
> Bank to subsidize big business when they want to build a factory in
> China or in any other dictatorship.
>
> Why are we helping Vietnam and China? Why are we helping those
> dictatorships when nearby people, the people of the Philippines,
> whom I just mentioned, who are on the front line against this
> Communist aggression, who China is trying to flood drugs into their
> country. The Chinese army itself is involved in the drug trade going
> into the Philippines.
>
> The Philippines are struggling to have a democracy. They have just
> had to remove a president who is being bribed. Bribed by whom?
> Bribed by organized crime figures from the mainland of China.
> When those people in the Philippines are struggling, why are we not
> trying to help them?
>
> Let us not encourage American businesses to go to Vietnam or to
> Communist China, when you have got people right close by who are
> struggling to have a democratic government and love the United
> States of America. The people of the Philippines are strong and
> they love their freedom and their liberty, but they feel like they have
> been abandoned by the United States. And when we help factories
> to be set up in China rather than sending work to the Philippines,
> and they do not even have the money to buy the weapons to defend
> themselves in the Philippines. That is why it is important for us to
> stand tall, so they know they can count on us. But they can only count
> on us if we do what is right and have the courage to stand up.
>
> The same with China and India. India is not my favorite country in the
> world, but I will tell you this much, the Indians are struggling to have a
> free and democratic society. They have democratic institutions, and
> it is a struggle because they have so many varied people that live in
> India. But they are struggling to make their country better and to
> have a democratic system and to have rights and have a court
> system that functions, to have opposition newspapers. They do not
> have any of that in China. Yet instead of helping the Indian people,
> we are helping the Communist Chinese people? This is misplaced
> priorities at best.
>
> Finally, in this atmosphere of turmoil and confrontation, let us never
> forget who are our greatest allies, and that is the Chinese people
> themselves. Let no mistake in the wording that I have used tonight
> indicate that I hold the Chinese people accountable or synonymous
> with the Chinese government or with Beijing or with the Communist
> Party in China. The people of China are as freedom-loving and as
> pro-American as any people of the world.
>
> The people of China are not separated from the rest of humanity.
> They too want freedom and honest government. They want to
> improve their lives. They do not want a corrupt dictatorship over
> them. And any struggle for peace and prosperity, any plan for our
> country to try to bring peace to the world and to bring a better life
> and to support the cause of freedom must include the people of
> China.
>
> We do not want war. We want the people of China to be free. Then
> we could have free and open trade because it would be a free
> country and it would be free trade between free people instead of
> this travesty that we have today, which is a trade policy that
> strengthens the dictatorship.
>
> When the young people of China rose up and gathered together at
> Tiananmen Square, they used our Statue of Liberty as a model for
> their own goddess of liberty. That was the statue that they held forth.
> That was their dream. They dreamed that her torch, the goddess of
> liberty, would enlighten all China and they dreamed of a China
> democratic, prosperous and free. Our shortsighted policy of
> subsidized one-way trade crushes that goddess of liberty every bit
> as much as those Red Army tanks did 12 years ago.
>
> 'Re-examine Our Souls'
>
> Let us re-examine our souls. Let us re-examine our policies. Let us
> reach out to the people of China and claim together that we are all
> people of this planet, as our forefathers said, we are the ones, we
> are the people who have been given by God the rights of life, liberty
> and the pursuit of happiness. That is not just for Americans. That is
> for all the people of the world.
>
> And when we recognize that and reach out with honesty and not for
> a quick buck, not just to make a quick buck and then get out, but
> instead to reach over to those people and help them build their
> country, then we will have a future of peace and prosperity.
>
> It will not happen if we sell out our own national security interests. It
> will not happen if we are only siding with the ruling elite in China. We
> want to share a world with the people of China. We are on their side.
>
> Let me say this. That includes those soldiers in the People's
> Liberation Army. The people in the People's Liberation Army come
> from the population of China. They and those other forces at work in
> China should rise up and join with all the other people in the world,
> especially the American people, who believe in justice and truth; and
> we will wipe away those people at the negotiating table today that
> represent both sides of this negotiation, and we will sit face-to-face
> with all the people in the world who love justice and freedom and
> democracy, just as our forefathers thought was America's rightful
> role, and we will build a better world that way.
>
> We will not do it through a World Trade Organization. We will do it
> by respecting our own rights and respecting the rights of every other
> country and every other people on this planet.
>
> I hope that tonight the American people have heard these words.
> The course is not unalterable. This is a new administration. And in
> this new administration, I would hope that we reverse these horrible
> mistakes that have compromised our national security and
> undermined the cause of liberty and justice.
>
> I look forward to working with this administration to doing what is
> right for our country and right for the cause of peace and freedom.
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Rick Horowitz
>
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Re: Boycott China - please read - your life may depend on it

[Tatsumi Suda <at...@mx5.ttcn.ne.jp>]

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Tatsumi Suda, Japan.

RE: Boycott China - please read - your life may depend on it

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Horowitz [mailto:rickhoro@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 12:22 PM
To: Horowitz
Subject: Boycott China - please read - your life may depend on it


Hello Everyone,

The following speech, reprinted from www.newsmax.com, was made this Tuesday
night by U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of California. I urge you all to
read every word of this speech. I have been aware of much of the budding
catastrophe we face regarding China, yet have not seen the issues
articulated with anything near the clarity that Mr. Rohrabacher does in
this speech.

My wife and I began boycotting Chinese-made goods about a year ago in
recognition of the reasons outlined here. I urge every one of you to
forward this message to everyone in your email list, and begin boycotting
Chinese goods immediately.

My own brief summary of the issues:

1. Our extreme trade deficit vs. China (nearly $100B per year now) has been
used for a massive military buildup, with the U.S. as the ultimate target.
2. Russia is selling their most advanced arms to China, capable of
destroying our aircraft carriers, including a supersonic torpedo technology
that is far beyond anything that we have and for which we have no defense.
3. Our leading defense contractors, including Loral, Boeing, Hughes,
Motorola, and others have sold advanced military technology to China over
the past few years, including technology that now enables Chinese
nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles to accurately hit
American cities, something they were not able to do prior to this transfer
of technology.
4. The majority of the "partner" companies of U.S. ventures in China are in
fact owned and operated by the PLA (the People's Liberation Army - the
Chinese army). These are not commercial interests.
5. The U.S. government (read you and I) have been providing tax breaks to
American companies to close up factories in the U.S. and reopen them in
China. These factories transfer advanced technology in many cases, put
Americans out of work, and provide cash to the Chinese to further their
military expansion.

I hope these points and the following reprinted speech make you think long
and hard about our position regarding China, and that you:

1. Start boycotting Chinese-made goods immediately
2. Send this message to everyone on your email list. Please don't be
embarrassed to take a stand on this. I assure you, it is not my imagination
that China poses a significant threat to our safety and future, and we are
giving them the money, technology, and weaponry to carry out their many
threats already made against our country.

Here's one informational link...I'm sure you can find may others yourself.

PLEASE read Mr. Rohrabacher's speech, below:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/chinamissiles_990409.html
....includes, "A Chinese official hinted at launching a nuclear weapon
at Los Angeles in 1996, when U.S. warships confronted
China over missile firings near Taiwan."

Make no mistake about it. The Chinese government is a dictatorship, and is
very dangerous.

Sincerely,

Rick Horowitz

Rohrabacher Slams U.S. Aid to China

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher
Thursday, April 26, 2001

Editor's note: This is the text of a speech on the House floor by
U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., Tuesday night.

Mr. Speaker, one month ago, the Communist regime that controls
the mainland of China attacked an American surveillance aircraft
while it was in international waters. After being knocked out of the
sky, 24 American military personnel, the crew of the surveillance
craft, were held hostage for nearly 2 weeks. The Communist
Chinese blamed us and would not return the crew until the United
States was humiliated before the world.

Wake up, America. What is going on here? Large financial interests
in our country whose only goal is exploiting the cheap, near-slave
labor of China have been leading our country down the path to
catastrophe. How much more proof do we need that the so-called
engagement theory is a total failure?

Our massive investment in China, pushed and promoted by
American billionaires and multinational corporations, has created
not a more peaceful, democratic China, but an aggressive
nuclear-armed bully that now threatens the world with its hostile acts
and proliferation. Do the Communist Chinese have to murder
American personnel or attack the United States or our allies with
their missiles before those who blithesomely pontificate about the
civilizing benefits of building the Chinese economy will admit that
China for a decade has been going in the opposite direction than
predicted by the so-called ``free traders.''

'We Have Made a Monstrous Mistake'

We have made a monstrous mistake, and if we do not face reality
and change our fundamental policies, instead of peace, there will be
conflict. Instead of democratic reform, we will see a further
retrenchment of a regime that is run by gangsters and thugs, the
world's worst human rights abusers.

Let us go back to basics. The mainland of China is controlled by a
rigid, Stalinistic Communist party. The regime is committing
genocide in Tibet. It is holding as a captive the designated
successor of the Dalai Lama, who is the spiritual leader of the
Tibetan people. By the way, this person, the designated new leader,
is a little boy. They are holding hostage a little boy in order to
terrorize the Tibetan people. The regime is now, at this moment,
arresting thousands of members of the Falun Gong, which is nothing
more threatening than a meditation and yoga society. Christians of
all denominations are being brutalized unless they register with the
state and attend controlled churches. Just in the last few days, there
has been a round-up of Catholics who were practicing their faith
outside of state control. Now they are in a Chinese prison.

There are no opposition parties in China. There is no free press in
China. China is not a free society under anyone's definition. More
importantly, it is not a society that is evolving toward freedom.

President Richard Nixon first established our ties with the
Communist Chinese in 1972 at the height of the Cold War. That was
a brilliant move. At that particular moment, it was a brilliant move. It
enabled us to play the power of one dictatorship off the power of
another dictatorship. We played one against the other at a time
when we had been weakened by the Vietnam War and at a time
when Soviet Russia was on the offensive.

During the Reagan years, we dramatically expanded our ties to
China, but do not miss the essential fact that justified that
relationship and made it different than what has been going on
these last 10 years. China was at that time, during the Reagan
administration, evolving toward a freer, more open society, a
growing democratic movement was evident, and the United States,
our government and our people, fostered this movement. Under
President Reagan, we brought tens of thousands of students here,
and we sent teams from our National Endowment for Democracy
there. We were working with them to build a more democratic
society, and it looked like that was what was going to happen. All of
this ended, of course, in Tiananmen Square over 10 years ago.

'Tanks to Wipe Out the Opposition'

Thousands of Chinese gathered there in Tiananmen Square in
Beijing to demand a more open and democratic government. For a
moment, it appeared like there had been an historic breakthrough.
Then, from out of the darkness came battle-hardened troops and
tanks to wipe out the opposition. The people who ordered that
attack are still holding the reins of power in China today and, like all
other criminals who get away with scurrilous deeds, they have
become emboldened and arrogant.

My only lament is that had Ronald Reagan been president during
that time of Tiananmen Square, things, I think, would have been
different; but he was not. Since that turn of events about 12 years
ago, things have been progressively worse. The repression is more
evident than ever. The belligerence and hostility of Beijing is even
more open. Underscoring the insanity of it all, the Communist
Chinese have been using their huge trade surplus with the United
States to upgrade their military and expand its warfighting
capabilities.

Communist China's arsenal of jets, its ballistic missiles, its naval
forces have all been modernized and reinforced. In the last 2 years,
they have purchased destroyers from the former Soviet Union.
These destroyers are armed with Sunburn missiles. These were
systems that were designed during the Cold War by the Russians to
destroy American aircraft carriers.

Yes, the Communist Chinese are arming themselves to sink
American aircraft carriers, to kill thousands upon thousands of
American sailors. Make no mistake about it, China's military might
now threatens America and world peace. If there is a crisis in that
part of the world again, which there will be, we can predict that some
day, unlike the last crisis when American aircraft carriers were able
to become a peaceful element to bring moderation of judgment
among the players who were in conflict, instead, American aircraft
carriers will find themselves vulnerable, and an American President
will have to face the choice of risking the lives of all of those sailors
on those aircraft carriers.

Mr. Speaker, how is it, then, that a relatively poor country can afford
to enlarge its military in such a way, to the point that it can threaten a
superpower such as the United States of America?

Even as China's slide into tyranny and militarism continued in these
last 12 years, the United States government has permitted a totally
indefensible economic rules of engagement to guide our
commercial ties with the mainland of China.

While China was going in the right direction, permitting that country
to have a large trade advantage and thus providing a large reserve
of hard currency may or may not have made sense, as long as
China was going in the right direction and going towards
democracy. Maybe we would like to build up a freer China that way.

It 'Makes No Sense' to Help Arm China

But it made no sense, and it still makes no sense, for the United
States to permit a country that is sinking even deeper into tyranny
and into anti-Western hostility to have a huge trade surplus as a
resource to call upon to meet their military needs.

In effect, the Communist Chinese have been using the tens of
billions of dollars of trade surplus with the United States each year to
build their military power and military might so some day the
Communist Chinese might be able to kill millions of our people, or at
least to threaten us to do that in order to back us down into defeat
without ever coming to a fight.

We have essentially been arming and equipping our worst potential
enemy and financing our own destruction. How could we let such a
crime against the security of our country happen? Well, it was
argued by some very sincere people that free trade would bring
positive change to China, and that engagement would civilize the
Communist regime.

Even as evidence stacked upon more evidence indicated that
China was not liberalizing, that just the opposite was happening, the
barkers for open markets kept singing their song:
``Most-favored-nation status, just give us this and things will get
better.'' It was nonsense then and it is nonsense today. But after all
that has happened, one would think that the shame factor would
silence these eternal optimists.

Perhaps I am a bit sensitive because, first and foremost, let me
state unequivocally that I consider myself a free trader. Yes, I believe
in free trade between free people. What we should strive for is to
have more and more open trade with all free and democratic
countries, or countries that are heading in the right direction.

I am thus positively inclined towards President Bush's efforts to
establish a free trade zone among the democratic countries in this
hemisphere. I will read the fine print, but my inclination is to facilitate
trade between democracies.

When I say, ``I will read the fine print,'' I will be especially concerned
with a free trade agreement, and I will be looking to that free trade
agreement to make sure that we have protection that our sensitive
technologies, which can be used for military purposes, will not be
transferred from the countries in our hemisphere, democratic
countries in our hemisphere, to China or to any other countries that
are potential enemies of the United States. This will have to be in
that free trade agreement.

There will have to be protections against the transfer of our
technology to our enemies. This is more of a concern following new
science and technology agreements that were signed by China and
countries like Brazil and Venezuela recently. Dictatorships are
always going to try to gain in any agreement that they have with us,
and they are always going to try to manipulate other agreements
and the rules of the game so they can stay in power.

When one applies the rules of free trade to a controlled society, as
we have been told over and over again, more trade, and let us have
free trade with China, that is going to make them more dependent
on us and they will be freer and more prosperous, more likely to be
peaceful people, well, if we apply the rules of free trade to a
dictatorship, ultimately what happens is that it is only free trade in
one direction.

On one end we have free people, a democratic people who are not
controlled by their government, and thus are basically unregulated
and are moving forward for their own benefit. But on the other end,
the trade will be controlled and manipulated to ensure that the
current establishment of that country stays in power.

Never has that been more evident than in America's dealing with
Communist China. In this case, it is so very blatant.

Those advocating most-favored-nation status, or as it is called now,
normal trade relations, have always based their case on the boon to
our country represented by the sale of American goods to ``the
world's largest market.'' That is their argument. Here on this floor
over and over and over again we heard people say, ``We have to
have these normal trade relations because we have to sell our
products, the products made by the American people, to the world's
largest market.''

This Is Free Trade?

That is a great pitch. The only problem is, it is not true. The sale of
U.S.-produced vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, autos, you name the
commercial item, are almost a non-factor in the trade relationship
between our countries. They are a minuscule amount of what is
considered the trade analysis of these two countries.

During these many years that we have given China
most-favored-nation status or normal trade relations, the power elite
there never lowered China's tariffs, and in fact increased the tariffs
in some areas, and erected barriers to prevent the sale of all but a
few U.S.-made products.

So while we had low tariffs, and intentionally brought our tariffs down
by most-favored-nation, for over a decade, even as China was
slipping more into tyranny, they were permitted to have high tariffs
and block our goods from coming in.

Beijing would not permit its own people to buy American-made
consumer items. They were not looking for a trade relationship with
the United States for their people to be able to buy American
products. That is not what they were looking for. That is not what it
was all about. They knew it, but yet our people were told over and
over and over and over and over again, ``Oh, we have to have
most-favored-nation status and normal trade relations in order to sell
American products to the world's largest market.''

That is not what was going on. It is not what the reality was. Instead,
the Communist Chinese were out to get American money, lots of it,
and American money to build factories, and they wanted the
Americans to build the factories with our technology and our money
in their country.

By the way, many of the factories that were built there were not built
in order to sell products to the Chinese people. Those factories
were built to export products to the United States.

The system that developed with the acquiescence of our
government, and this is no secret, what I am talking about tonight is
no secret to anyone except to the American people, our government
acquiesced to this for years, this policy put the American people, the
American working people, on the losing end of the transformational
action in the long run and sometimes even in the medium run.

The Chinese, because of our low tariffs, flooded our market with
their products, and blocked our goods from entering China, and all
the while we were hearing over and over again, ``We must have
most-favored-nation status in order to sell American products in the
world's largest market.''

They droned on year after year that most-favored-nation status was
so important to selling our products in the world's largest market. I
will just repeat that four or five times, because we must have heard it
a thousand times on this floor, and every time said, I am sure, in
complete sincerity by the people who were expressing it, but were
totally wrong. A very quick look into the statistics could have
indicated that.

Taiwan a Better Customer

By the way, just to let members know, the people of Taiwan,
numbering 22 million people, buy more from us annually than the 1.2
Chinese on the mainland. The Taiwanese, with 22 million people,
buy more consumer products from us than do 1.2 billion Chinese in
the mainland.

What has happened? What has happened as a result of these
nonsensical counterproductive policies, anti-American policies to
some degree, even though our own government has acquiesced in
them? It has resulted in a decline in domestic manufacturing
facilities in the United States. In other words, we have been closing
down our factories and putting our people out of work.

By the way, that does not mean the company is put out of business.
Those factories spring up someplace else. There is this flood of
Chinese products, the factory closes down, and guess where it
reopens? It reopens, yes, in Communist China, using our modern
technology and our capital, which is what the Chinese want to have
invested in their country.

Taxing Americans to Help Communism

Adding insult to injury, our working people, some of them, whose
jobs are being threatened by imports, our working people are being
taxed in order to provide taxpayer-subsidized loans and loan
guarantees for those corporate leaders wishing to close down their
operations in the United States and set up on the mainland of China.

Even if China was a free country, that would not be a good idea. I do
not believe we should be doing that even for democratic countries.
But for us to do that to a Communist dictatorship or any kind of
dictatorship, to have the American taxpayer subsidize these
investments, taking the risks on the shoulders of the American
taxpayer in order to build the economy of a vicious dictatorship, this
is insane. This is an insane policy. This is not free trade between
free people. It has nothing to do with free trade. It is subsidized trade
with subjugated people.

Companies that were permitted to sell their product to the Chinese
in these last 10 years, and there have been a few, companies like
Boeing who have attempted to sell airplanes to China, have found
themselves in a very bad predicament. As part of the deal enabling
them to sell planes now to Communist China, they have had to set
up manufacturing facilities in China to build the parts, or at least
some of the parts for the airplane.

Thus, over a period of time, what the Chinese have managed to do
is to have the United States just build factories and pay for them. Or,
as part of an agreement to sell the airplane, we have set up an
aerospace industry in China that will compete with our own
aerospace industry.

I come from California. I come from a district in which aerospace is
a mighty important part of our economy. I just want to thank all the
people who have permitted this policy, this blackmail of American
companies, to go on under the name, under the guise of free trade.
It is going to sell out our own national interest 10 years down the
road when these people will have a modern aerospace industry
building weapons and being able to undercut our own people. Gee,
thanks.

Making matters worse, many of the so-called companies in China
that are partnering with American industrialists, and American
industrialists, when they are going to build in China, are often
required to have a Chinese company as their partner as a
prerequisite to them investing in China, in short order these
so-called partners end up taking over the company. So many of
American companies have been there and have been burned.

Guess what, we look at these private Chinese companies that were
partners with our American firms, we look at them, and what do we
find out? They are not private companies at all. Many of them are
subsidiaries of the People's Liberation Army. That is right, the
Communist Chinese army owns these companies. These are
nothing more than military people in civilian clothing. Their profits
end up paying for weapons targeting America, and we are paying
them to build the companies that make those profits.

'Alarming Betrayal of American Security'

Perhaps the most alarming betrayal of American national security
interests surfaced about 5 years ago when some of America's
biggest aerospace firms went into China hoping to use Chinese
rockets to launch American satellites. They were trying to make a
fast buck. It did not cost them a lot more to launch satellites here.

Yes, the Chinese were insisting that any satellites we put up for them
be put up on their rockets. I personally thought that, as long as we
made sure there was no technology transfer, that was an okay
policy. As long as we just launched our American satellite which
helped them set up a telephone system or something in China, that
is fine if they never got ahold of it, and that would be okay.

I was guaranteed, along with the other Members of this body, there
would be incredible safeguards. The last administration briefed us
on the safeguards. Then as soon as we approved of letting these
satellite deals go through and our satellites be launched on Chinese
rockets, the administration trash canned all of the safeguards. I do
not understand it. I do not understand why people did this.

But when all was said and done, the Communist Chinese rocket
arsenal was filled with more reliable and more capable rockets,
thanks to Loral, Hughes and other aerospace firms. Communist
Chinese rockets, which were a joke 10 years ago, when Bill Clinton
became President of the United States, they were a joke, one out of
10 failed, exploded before they could get into space. Today they are
dramatically more likely to hit their targets, and they even carry
multiple warheads. Where before they had one warhead and nine
out of 10 would explode, now about 9 out of 10 get to their target,
and some of them are carrying multiple warheads.

The Cox Report

The Cox report detailed this travesty. We should not forget the Cox
report. Unfortunately, there has been innuendo after innuendo as if
the Cox report has in some way been proven wrong. There are no
reports that indicate that what the gentleman from California (Mr.
COX) and his task force proved has in some way been discredited.
In fact, there was a transfer of technology to the Communist Chinese
that did great damage to our national security and put millions of
American lives at risk that did not have to be put at risk.

Yet, even with all this staring Congress in the face, we have
continued to give Most Favored Nations status to China and even
now vote to make them part of the World Trade Organization. Why?
One explanation, well just bad theory. Expanding trade, of course,
they believe will make things better. But expanding trade did not
make things better. Expanding trade with a dictatorship, as I have
mentioned, just expands the power base and solidifies the bad guys
in power.

Of course the other explanation of why all this is going on, why we
end up seeing our national security trashed is pure greed on some
individuals' parts.

Our businessmen have been blinded, not by the dream of selling
U.S.-made products to China as they would have you believe in the
debates here on the floor of the House, but rather blinded by the
vision of using virtually slave labor for quick profits on the mainland
of China.

With little or no competition, no negotiators, no lawyers, no
environmental restrictions, no unions, no public consent, it sounds
like a businessman's dream to me. Yes, it is a businessman's
dream if you just blot out the picture of a grinding tyranny and the
human rights abuses that are going on and the horrible threat to the
United States of America that is emerging because of the things
that are going on and the things that are being done.

Because you are a businessman, because you are engaged in
making a profit as we are free to do in the United States does not
exempt you from being a patriot or being loyal to the security
interests of the United States of America.

Today's American overseas businessman quite often is a far cry
from the Yankee clipper captains of days gone by. In those days, our
Yankee clipper ships sailed the ocean, cut through those seas, the
Seven Seas. They were full going over, and they were full coming
back. They waived our flag. Our flag was flying from those clipper
ships, and our flag stood for freedom and justice. Those Yankee
clipper captains and those business entrepreneurs were proud to
be Americans.

Today, America's tycoons often see nationalism, read that loyalty to
the United States, as an antiquated notion. They are players in the
global economy now, they feel. Patriotism they believe is old think.

Well, we cannot rely on the decisions of people like this to
determine what the interests of the United States of America is to
be. Yet, the influence of these billionaires and these tycoons, these
people who would be willing to invest in a dictatorship or a
democracy, they could care less which one, they do not care if there
is blood dripping off the hand that hands them the dollar bills, those
individuals influence our government. Their influence on this elected
body is monumental, if not insurmountable at times.

'People Must Be Free'

I believe in capitalism. I am a capitalist. I am someone who believes
in the free enterprise system, make no mistake about it. But free is
the ultimate word. People must be free to be involved in enterprise.
We must respect the basic tenets of liberty and justice that have
provided us a country in which people are free to uplift themselves
through hard work and through enterprise.

Today, more often than not, we are talking about how people are
trying to find out ways of manipulating government on how to make a
profit, not how to build a better product that will enrich everyone's life
and make a profit by doing that, which is the essence of the free
enterprise system.

More and more people are not even looking again to this great
country and considering this great country for the role that it is
playing in this world and how important it is and how we should
never sacrifice the security of this country. Because if this country
falls, the hope for freedom and justice everywhere in the world falls.
No, instead they have put their baskets, not in the United States of
America, put their eggs in the basket of globalism. Well, globalism
will not work without democratic reform.

China will corrupt the WTO, the World Trade Organization, just as it
has corrupted the election processes in the United States of
America. You can see it now 20 years from now, maybe 10 years
from now, the panels of the WTO, you know, made up of countries
from all over the world, Latin America, Africa, Middle East. There
are members of those panels making these decisions, they will not
have ever been elected by anybody, much less the people of the
United States of America, yet we will be expected to follow their
dictates. Communist China, they will pay those people off in a
heartbeat. Why not? They did it to our people.

The Clinton-Gore Scandals

Remember the campaign contributions given to Vice President
Gore at the Buddhist Temple? Remember the money delivered to
the Clinton's by Johnny Chung? Where did that money come from?
We are talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars. Where did it
come from? It originated with Chinese military officers.

These military officers were wearing civilian clothes. They were top
officers in that part of the People's Liberation Army that produces
missiles. That is where the money came from, all this while our most
deadly missile technology was being transferred to Communist
China. One wonders why the Communist Chinese leaders are
arrogant and think that American leaders are cowards and corrupt
when we let this happen.

Our country has, in short, had a disastrously counterproductive
policy. We have, over the last 10 years, built our worst potential
enemy from a weak, introverted power into a powerful economic
military force, a force that is looking to dominate all of Asia. When I
say worst potential enemy, that is not just my assessment. That is
what the Communist Chinese leaders themselves believe and are
planning for.

Why do you think Communist Chinese boss Jiang Zemin recently
visited Cuba? He was in Cuba with Fidel Castro who hates our guts
when he released the hostages, the American military personnel
that he was holding hostage. What do you think that was all about?
He was telling the whole world we are standing up to the United
States of America, and they are our enemy. He was involved with an
activity that was declaring to the world his hostility towards the
United States.

Why, when you have a country like this who are professing hostility
to the United States and doing such as this, why are we permitting
them to buy up ports that will effectively give them control of the
Panama Canal, which is what they did a year and a half ago.

Giving China the Panama Canal

The Panama Canal, the last administration let the Chinese, the
Communist Chinese, through bribery, tremendously expand its
power in Panama and, through bribery, let it get control of the port
facilities at both ends of the Panama Canal. Why would we let such
a thing happen?

In many ways, we are repeating history. In the 1920s, Japanese
militarists wiped out Japan's fledgling democratic movement. That it
did. In doing so, it set a course for Japan. Japan then was a racist
power which believed it, too, had a right to dominate Asia.
Japanese militarists also knew that only the United States of
America stood in their way. This is deja vu all over again as Yogi
Berra once said.

The Communist Chinese, too, are militarists who seek to dominate
Asia. They think they are racially superior to everyone. They are
unlike their Japanese predecessors, however, willing to go slow,
and they have been going slow. But make no mistake about it, they
intend to dominate Asia, all of it. And even know, their maps claim
Siberia, Mongolia and huge chunks of the South China Sea.

The confrontation with our surveillance plane must be reviewed in
this perspective if the damage to the United States and the
imprudence and arrogance on the part of the communist Chinese
are to be understood.

China's claim on the South China Sea includes the Spratley Islands.
I have a map of the South China Sea with me tonight. Hainan Island.
Our airplane was intercepted, knocked out of the sky somewhere in
here. But what we are not told about and what the media is not
focusing on and no one has been talking about is this plane was
precisely in the waters between Hainan Island and the Spratley
Islands.

For those who do not know what the Spratley Islands are, they are
just a series of reefs that are under water at high tide and at low tide
above water. They are just a short distance, as you can see, this is
here, this is the Philippines; and right about 100 miles offshore, the
Spratley Islands. Yet they are several hundred miles from China. Yet
the Chinese are trying to claim these islands. That is what this was
all about. Not only are these islands, the Spratley Islands, the home
of natural gas and oil deposits, but they are also in a strategic
location. The Spratly Islands, having them in China's power, having
them being recognized as part of China, would, of course, be a
disaster to the Philippines whose oil and gas that belongs to, but
also it would give the Communist Chinese sovereignty rights which
would permit them to bracket the South China Sea. China, Hainan
Island, the Spratlys would bracket the South China Sea, from this
land point to this land point. Thus, we have a situation where when
China claims, which it does, a 200-mile zone, that would leave
China with a stranglehold on the South China Sea which is one of
the most important commercial areas on this planet. It would have a
stranglehold on Japan and Korea.

What do you think our friends in the Persian Gulf, for example, would
think about it if they understood that this was a power play, that what
we had with the surveillance aircraft was a power play? The reason
why the Communist Chinese were demanding an apology then, they
were demanding an apology because supposedly we were in their
airspace. If we apologized, that was a recognition of their
sovereignty in bracketing with the Spratly Islands on one side and
Hainan Island on the other side, bracketing the South China Sea. If
we ended up apologizing to the Communist regime, it would have
been taken as a legal recognition, a small one, of their sovereignty
and their 200-mile limit. That is what this was all about. That is why
they were playing hardball with us.

The American people and our allies are not being told that that is
what the stakes were. This is a long-term effort on the part of the
Communist Chinese to dominate the South China Sea and expand
their power so they could call it maybe the Communist China Sea
rather than the South China Sea. It behooves us to face these facts.
That is what it was all about. That is why they wanted an apology and
that is why they should not have gotten an apology.

I applaud this administration for wording its letter in a way that was
not and could not in any way be interpreted as a recognition of the
Chinese sovereignty over that airspace. An accommodationist
policy toward Communist China, ignoring this type of aggression,
ignoring human rights and democracy concerns while stressing
expanded trade, and even through all this you have a bunch of
people saying, ``Oh, isn't it lucky we have trade relations or we
would really be in trouble with the Communist Chinese.'' Give me a
break. But ignoring those other elements and just stressing trade as
part of a so-called engagement theory has not worked.

The regime in China is more powerful, more belligerent to the
United States and more repressive than ever before. President
Bush's decision in the wake of this incident at Hainan Island to sell
an arms package to Taiwan including destroyers, submarines and
an antiaircraft upgrade was good. At least it shows more moxie than
what the last administration did.

I would have preferred to see the Aegis system be provided to our
Taiwanese friends. But at least we have gone forward with a
respectable arms deal that will help Taiwan defend itself and thus
deter military action in that area.

Cancel 'All U.S. Military Exchanges' With China

But after the Hainan Island incident, the very least we should be
doing is canceling all U.S. military exchanges with Communist
China. I mean, I do not know if they are still delivering us those
berets or not, but that is just ridiculous to think that we are getting our
military berets from Communist China. We should cancel all military
exchanges.

The American people should be put on alert that they are in danger
if they travel to the mainland of China. And we should quit using our
tax dollars through the Export-Import Bank, the IMF and the World
Bank to subsidize big business when they want to build a factory in
China or in any other dictatorship.

Why are we helping Vietnam and China? Why are we helping those
dictatorships when nearby people, the people of the Philippines,
whom I just mentioned, who are on the front line against this
Communist aggression, who China is trying to flood drugs into their
country. The Chinese army itself is involved in the drug trade going
into the Philippines.

The Philippines are struggling to have a democracy. They have just
had to remove a president who is being bribed. Bribed by whom?
Bribed by organized crime figures from the mainland of China.
When those people in the Philippines are struggling, why are we not
trying to help them?

Let us not encourage American businesses to go to Vietnam or to
Communist China, when you have got people right close by who are
struggling to have a democratic government and love the United
States of America. The people of the Philippines are strong and
they love their freedom and their liberty, but they feel like they have
been abandoned by the United States. And when we help factories
to be set up in China rather than sending work to the Philippines,
and they do not even have the money to buy the weapons to defend
themselves in the Philippines. That is why it is important for us to
stand tall, so they know they can count on us. But they can only count
on us if we do what is right and have the courage to stand up.

The same with China and India. India is not my favorite country in the
world, but I will tell you this much, the Indians are struggling to have a
free and democratic society. They have democratic institutions, and
it is a struggle because they have so many varied people that live in
India. But they are struggling to make their country better and to
have a democratic system and to have rights and have a court
system that functions, to have opposition newspapers. They do not
have any of that in China. Yet instead of helping the Indian people,
we are helping the Communist Chinese people? This is misplaced
priorities at best.

Finally, in this atmosphere of turmoil and confrontation, let us never
forget who are our greatest allies, and that is the Chinese people
themselves. Let no mistake in the wording that I have used tonight
indicate that I hold the Chinese people accountable or synonymous
with the Chinese government or with Beijing or with the Communist
Party in China. The people of China are as freedom-loving and as
pro-American as any people of the world.

The people of China are not separated from the rest of humanity.
They too want freedom and honest government. They want to
improve their lives. They do not want a corrupt dictatorship over
them. And any struggle for peace and prosperity, any plan for our
country to try to bring peace to the world and to bring a better life
and to support the cause of freedom must include the people of
China.

We do not want war. We want the people of China to be free. Then
we could have free and open trade because it would be a free
country and it would be free trade between free people instead of
this travesty that we have today, which is a trade policy that
strengthens the dictatorship.

When the young people of China rose up and gathered together at
Tiananmen Square, they used our Statue of Liberty as a model for
their own goddess of liberty. That was the statue that they held forth.
That was their dream. They dreamed that her torch, the goddess of
liberty, would enlighten all China and they dreamed of a China
democratic, prosperous and free. Our shortsighted policy of
subsidized one-way trade crushes that goddess of liberty every bit
as much as those Red Army tanks did 12 years ago.

'Re-examine Our Souls'

Let us re-examine our souls. Let us re-examine our policies. Let us
reach out to the people of China and claim together that we are all
people of this planet, as our forefathers said, we are the ones, we
are the people who have been given by God the rights of life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. That is not just for Americans. That is
for all the people of the world.

And when we recognize that and reach out with honesty and not for
a quick buck, not just to make a quick buck and then get out, but
instead to reach over to those people and help them build their
country, then we will have a future of peace and prosperity.

It will not happen if we sell out our own national security interests. It
will not happen if we are only siding with the ruling elite in China. We
want to share a world with the people of China. We are on their side.

Let me say this. That includes those soldiers in the People's
Liberation Army. The people in the People's Liberation Army come
from the population of China. They and those other forces at work in
China should rise up and join with all the other people in the world,
especially the American people, who believe in justice and truth; and
we will wipe away those people at the negotiating table today that
represent both sides of this negotiation, and we will sit face-to-face
with all the people in the world who love justice and freedom and
democracy, just as our forefathers thought was America's rightful
role, and we will build a better world that way.

We will not do it through a World Trade Organization. We will do it
by respecting our own rights and respecting the rights of every other
country and every other people on this planet.

I hope that tonight the American people have heard these words.
The course is not unalterable. This is a new administration. And in
this new administration, I would hope that we reverse these horrible
mistakes that have compromised our national security and
undermined the cause of liberty and justice.

I look forward to working with this administration to doing what is
right for our country and right for the cause of peace and freedom.



--------------------
Rick Horowitz

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Re: Boycott China - please read - your life may depend on it

["Craig R. McClanahan" <cr...@apache.org>]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Rick Horowitz wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> 
> The following speech, reprinted from www.newsmax.com, was made this Tuesday 
> night by U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of California. I urge you all to 
> read every word of this speech. I have been aware of much of the budding 
> catastrophe we face regarding China, yet have not seen the issues 
> articulated with anything near the clarity that Mr. Rohrabacher does in 
> this speech.

Rick, you are welcome to your beliefs, and are free to espouse them -- but
please do so elsewhere.  This list is for discussions of the Struts
framework, not for political manifestos.

Craig McClanahan

RE: Boycott China - please read - your life may depend on it

[Doug Pedley <dp...@lookupguide.com>]

Hey David, 

You accidentely responded to the whole
tomcat list (That's where this assh0le
got our names) His address if you'd like 
to express you distaste is: 

Rick Horowitz [rickhoro@yahoo.com]

-Doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Patton [mailto:DPatton@quovera.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 4:22 PM
> To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Boycott China - please read - your life may depend on it
> 
> 
> Rick:
> 
> Not sure who you are, or how yu got my email address, or why you sent me
> this, but frankly I think what you are proposing is incredibly stupid and
> shortsighted.  Do you realize that approximately 60% or so of the 
> goods sold
> in this country are made in China.  Not to mention that China is 
> the largest
> holder of US Treasury Bonds.  What does this mean?  It means we are
> economically  interdependent on CHina and that waging any sort of economic
> warfare such as a boycott of theoir goods, will only hurt the 
> United States
> in the long run.  As for our trade deficit with China, I submit 
> that is due
> primarily to our own economic policy blunders.  As for the other points:
> Who cares if Russia is selling equipment to China, Those torpedos 
> (Aircraft
> Carrier Killers) which you so alarmingly called attention to have been
> around for years.  They are wake homing torpedoes, and you are 
> right we have
> no defense against them.  BUt we have the same thing.  Lets also 
> not forget
> that having a torpedo doesnt do much good if you cant get close enough to
> launch it, and Chinese submarines are noisy and easy to track.  
> Yes Chinese
> military doctrine calls for a military confrontation with the US within 20
> to 30 years.  So what?  At least we know about it.  If I were you 
> I would be
> more concerned with an internal revolution inside China destabilizing the
> government, and causing a civil war.  That is more of a threat than China
> itself.  So in short what I am trying to say is please do not 
> bother me with
> alarmist uninformed right wing rhetoric.  Thank you and have a nice day.
> 
> -----Original Messa saying is ge-----
> From: Rick Horowitz [mailto:rickhoro@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 15:22
> To: Horowitz
> Subject: Boycott China - please read - your life may depend on it
> 
> 
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> The following speech, reprinted from www.newsmax.com, was made 
> this Tuesday
> night by U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of California. I urge 
> you all to
> read every word of this speech. I have been aware of much of the budding
> catastrophe we face regarding China, yet have not seen the issues
> articulated with anything near the clarity that Mr. Rohrabacher does in
> this speech.
> 
> My wife and I began boycotting Chinese-made goods about a year ago in
> recognition of the reasons outlined here. I urge every one of you to
> forward this message to everyone in your email list, and begin boycotting
> Chinese goods immediately.
> 
> My own brief summary of the issues:
> 
> 1. Our extreme trade deficit vs. China (nearly $100B per year 
> now) has been
> used for a massive military buildup, with the U.S. as the ultimate target.
> 2. Russia is selling their most advanced arms to China, capable of
> destroying our aircraft carriers, including a supersonic torpedo 
> technology
> that is far beyond anything that we have and for which we have no defense.
> 3. Our leading defense contractors, including Loral, Boeing, Hughes,
> Motorola, and others have sold advanced military technology to China over
> the past few years, including technology that now enables Chinese
> nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles to accurately hit
> American cities, something they were not able to do prior to this transfer
> of technology.
> 4. The majority of the "partner" companies of U.S. ventures in 
> China are in
> fact owned and operated by the PLA (the People's Liberation Army - the
> Chinese army). These are not commercial interests.
> 5. The U.S. government (read you and I) have been providing tax breaks to
> American companies to close up factories in the U.S. and reopen them in
> China. These factories transfer advanced technology in many cases, put
> Americans out of work, and provide cash to the Chinese to further their
> military expansion.
> 
> I hope these points and the following reprinted speech make you think long
> and hard about our position regarding China, and that you:
> 
> 1. Start boycotting Chinese-made goods immediately
> 2. Send this message to everyone on your email list. Please don't be
> embarrassed to take a stand on this. I assure you, it is not my 
> imagination
> that China poses a significant threat to our safety and future, and we are
> giving them the money, technology, and weaponry to carry out their many
> threats already made against our country.
> 
> Here's one informational link...I'm sure you can find may others yourself.
> 
> PLEASE read Mr. Rohrabacher's speech, below:
> 
> http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/chinamissiles_990409.html
> ....includes, "A Chinese official hinted at launching a nuclear weapon
> at Los Angeles in 1996, when U.S. warships confronted
> China over missile firings near Taiwan."
> 
> Make no mistake about it. The Chinese government is a dictatorship, and is
> very dangerous.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Rick Horowitz
> 
> Rohrabacher Slams U.S. Aid to China
> 
> Rep. Dana Rohrabacher
> Thursday, April 26, 2001
> 
> Editor's note: This is the text of a speech on the House floor by
> U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., Tuesday night.
> 
> Mr. Speaker, one month ago, the Communist regime that controls
> the mainland of China attacked an American surveillance aircraft
> while it was in international waters. After being knocked out of the
> sky, 24 American military personnel, the crew of the surveillance
> craft, were held hostage for nearly 2 weeks. The Communist
> Chinese blamed us and would not return the crew until the United
> States was humiliated before the world.
> 
> Wake up, America. What is going on here? Large financial interests
> in our country whose only goal is exploiting the cheap, near-slave
> labor of China have been leading our country down the path to
> catastrophe. How much more proof do we need that the so-called
> engagement theory is a total failure?
> 
> Our massive investment in China, pushed and promoted by
> American billionaires and multinational corporations, has created
> not a more peaceful, democratic China, but an aggressive
> nuclear-armed bully that now threatens the world with its hostile acts
> and proliferation. Do the Communist Chinese have to murder
> American personnel or attack the United States or our allies with
> their missiles before those who blithesomely pontificate about the
> civilizing benefits of building the Chinese economy will admit that
> China for a decade has been going in the opposite direction than
> predicted by the so-called ``free traders.''
> 
> 'We Have Made a Monstrous Mistake'
> 
> We have made a monstrous mistake, and if we do not face reality
> and change our fundamental policies, instead of peace, there will be
> conflict. Instead of democratic reform, we will see a further
> retrenchment of a regime that is run by gangsters and thugs, the
> world's worst human rights abusers.
> 
> Let us go back to basics. The mainland of China is controlled by a
> rigid, Stalinistic Communist party. The regime is committing
> genocide in Tibet. It is holding as a captive the designated
> successor of the Dalai Lama, who is the spiritual leader of the
> Tibetan people. By the way, this person, the designated new leader,
> is a little boy. They are holding hostage a little boy in order to
> terrorize the Tibetan people. The regime is now, at this moment,
> arresting thousands of members of the Falun Gong, which is nothing
> more threatening than a meditation and yoga society. Christians of
> all denominations are being brutalized unless they register with the
> state and attend controlled churches. Just in the last few days, there
> has been a round-up of Catholics who were practicing their faith
> outside of state control. Now they are in a Chinese prison.
> 
> There are no opposition parties in China. There is no free press in
> China. China is not a free society under anyone's definition. More
> importantly, it is not a society that is evolving toward freedom.
> 
> President Richard Nixon first established our ties with the
> Communist Chinese in 1972 at the height of the Cold War. That was
> a brilliant move. At that particular moment, it was a brilliant move. It
> enabled us to play the power of one dictatorship off the power of
> another dictatorship. We played one against the other at a time
> when we had been weakened by the Vietnam War and at a time
> when Soviet Russia was on the offensive.
> 
> During the Reagan years, we dramatically expanded our ties to
> China, but do not miss the essential fact that justified that
> relationship and made it different than what has been going on
> these last 10 years. China was at that time, during the Reagan
> administration, evolving toward a freer, more open society, a
> growing democratic movement was evident, and the United States,
> our government and our people, fostered this movement. Under
> President Reagan, we brought tens of thousands of students here,
> and we sent teams from our National Endowment for Democracy
> there. We were working with them to build a more democratic
> society, and it looked like that was what was going to happen. All of
> this ended, of course, in Tiananmen Square over 10 years ago.
> 
> 'Tanks to Wipe Out the Opposition'
> 
> Thousands of Chinese gathered there in Tiananmen Square in
> Beijing to demand a more open and democratic government. For a
> moment, it appeared like there had been an historic breakthrough.
> Then, from out of the darkness came battle-hardened troops and
> tanks to wipe out the opposition. The people who ordered that
> attack are still holding the reins of power in China today and, like all
> other criminals who get away with scurrilous deeds, they have
> become emboldened and arrogant.
> 
> My only lament is that had Ronald Reagan been president during
> that time of Tiananmen Square, things, I think, would have been
> different; but he was not. Since that turn of events about 12 years
> ago, things have been progressively worse. The repression is more
> evident than ever. The belligerence and hostility of Beijing is even
> more open. Underscoring the insanity of it all, the Communist
> Chinese have been using their huge trade surplus with the United
> States to upgrade their military and expand its warfighting
> capabilities.
> 
> Communist China's arsenal of jets, its ballistic missiles, its naval
> forces have all been modernized and reinforced. In the last 2 years,
> they have purchased destroyers from the former Soviet Union.
> These destroyers are armed with Sunburn missiles. These were
> systems that were designed during the Cold War by the Russians to
> destroy American aircraft carriers.
> 
> Yes, the Communist Chinese are arming themselves to sink
> American aircraft carriers, to kill thousands upon thousands of
> American sailors. Make no mistake about it, China's military might
> now threatens America and world peace. If there is a crisis in that
> part of the world again, which there will be, we can predict that some
> day, unlike the last crisis when American aircraft carriers were able
> to become a peaceful element to bring moderation of judgment
> among the players who were in conflict, instead, American aircraft
> carriers will find themselves vulnerable, and an American President
> will have to face the choice of risking the lives of all of those sailors
> on those aircraft carriers.
> 
> Mr. Speaker, how is it, then, that a relatively poor country can afford
> to enlarge its military in such a way, to the point that it can threaten a
> superpower such as the United States of America?
> 
> Even as China's slide into tyranny and militarism continued in these
> last 12 years, the United States government has permitted a totally
> indefensible economic rules of engagement to guide our
> commercial ties with the mainland of China.
> 
> While China was going in the right direction, permitting that country
> to have a large trade advantage and thus providing a large reserve
> of hard currency may or may not have made sense, as long as
> China was going in the right direction and going towards
> democracy. Maybe we would like to build up a freer China that way.
> 
> It 'Makes No Sense' to Help Arm China
> 
> But it made no sense, and it still makes no sense, for the United
> States to permit a country that is sinking even deeper into tyranny
> and into anti-Western hostility to have a huge trade surplus as a
> resource to call upon to meet their military needs.
> 
> In effect, the Communist Chinese have been using the tens of
> billions of dollars of trade surplus with the United States each year to
> build their military power and military might so some day the
> Communist Chinese might be able to kill millions of our people, or at
> least to threaten us to do that in order to back us down into defeat
> without ever coming to a fight.
> 
> We have essentially been arming and equipping our worst potential
> enemy and financing our own destruction. How could we let such a
> crime against the security of our country happen? Well, it was
> argued by some very sincere people that free trade would bring
> positive change to China, and that engagement would civilize the
> Communist regime.
> 
> Even as evidence stacked upon more evidence indicated that
> China was not liberalizing, that just the opposite was happening, the
> barkers for open markets kept singing their song:
> ``Most-favored-nation status, just give us this and things will get
> better.'' It was nonsense then and it is nonsense today. But after all
> that has happened, one would think that the shame factor would
> silence these eternal optimists.
> 
> Perhaps I am a bit sensitive because, first and foremost, let me
> state unequivocally that I consider myself a free trader. Yes, I believe
> in free trade between free people. What we should strive for is to
> have more and more open trade with all free and democratic
> countries, or countries that are heading in the right direction.
> 
> I am thus positively inclined towards President Bush's efforts to
> establish a free trade zone among the democratic countries in this
> hemisphere. I will read the fine print, but my inclination is to 
> facilitate
> trade between democracies.
> 
> When I say, ``I will read the fine print,'' I will be especially concerned
> with a free trade agreement, and I will be looking to that free trade
> agreement to make sure that we have protection that our sensitive
> technologies, which can be used for military purposes, will not be
> transferred from the countries in our hemisphere, democratic
> countries in our hemisphere, to China or to any other countries that
> are potential enemies of the United States. This will have to be in
> that free trade agreement.
> 
> There will have to be protections against the transfer of our
> technology to our enemies. This is more of a concern following new
> science and technology agreements that were signed by China and
> countries like Brazil and Venezuela recently. Dictatorships are
> always going to try to gain in any agreement that they have with us,
> and they are always going to try to manipulate other agreements
> and the rules of the game so they can stay in power.
> 
> When one applies the rules of free trade to a controlled society, as
> we have been told over and over again, more trade, and let us have
> free trade with China, that is going to make them more dependent
> on us and they will be freer and more prosperous, more likely to be
> peaceful people, well, if we apply the rules of free trade to a
> dictatorship, ultimately what happens is that it is only free trade in
> one direction.
> 
> On one end we have free people, a democratic people who are not
> controlled by their government, and thus are basically unregulated
> and are moving forward for their own benefit. But on the other end,
> the trade will be controlled and manipulated to ensure that the
> current establishment of that country stays in power.
> 
> Never has that been more evident than in America's dealing with
> Communist China. In this case, it is so very blatant.
> 
> Those advocating most-favored-nation status, or as it is called now,
> normal trade relations, have always based their case on the boon to
> our country represented by the sale of American goods to ``the
> world's largest market.'' That is their argument. Here on this floor
> over and over and over again we heard people say, ``We have to
> have these normal trade relations because we have to sell our
> products, the products made by the American people, to the world's
> largest market.''
> 
> This Is Free Trade?
> 
> That is a great pitch. The only problem is, it is not true. The sale of
> U.S.-produced vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, autos, you name the
> commercial item, are almost a non-factor in the trade relationship
> between our countries. They are a minuscule amount of what is
> considered the trade analysis of these two countries.
> 
> During these many years that we have given China
> most-favored-nation status or normal trade relations, the power elite
> there never lowered China's tariffs, and in fact increased the tariffs
> in some areas, and erected barriers to prevent the sale of all but a
> few U.S.-made products.
> 
> So while we had low tariffs, and intentionally brought our tariffs down
> by most-favored-nation, for over a decade, even as China was
> slipping more into tyranny, they were permitted to have high tariffs
> and block our goods from coming in.
> 
> Beijing would not permit its own people to buy American-made
> consumer items. They were not looking for a trade relationship with
> the United States for their people to be able to buy American
> products. That is not what they were looking for. That is not what it
> was all about. They knew it, but yet our people were told over and
> over and over and over and over again, ``Oh, we have to have
> most-favored-nation status and normal trade relations in order to sell
> American products to the world's largest market.''
> 
> That is not what was going on. It is not what the reality was. Instead,
> the Communist Chinese were out to get American money, lots of it,
> and American money to build factories, and they wanted the
> Americans to build the factories with our technology and our money
> in their country.
> 
> By the way, many of the factories that were built there were not built
> in order to sell products to the Chinese people. Those factories
> were built to export products to the United States.
> 
> The system that developed with the acquiescence of our
> government, and this is no secret, what I am talking about tonight is
> no secret to anyone except to the American people, our government
> acquiesced to this for years, this policy put the American people, the
> American working people, on the losing end of the transformational
> action in the long run and sometimes even in the medium run.
> 
> The Chinese, because of our low tariffs, flooded our market with
> their products, and blocked our goods from entering China, and all
> the while we were hearing over and over again, ``We must have
> most-favored-nation status in order to sell American products in the
> world's largest market.''
> 
> They droned on year after year that most-favored-nation status was
> so important to selling our products in the world's largest market. I
> will just repeat that four or five times, because we must have heard it
> a thousand times on this floor, and every time said, I am sure, in
> complete sincerity by the people who were expressing it, but were
> totally wrong. A very quick look into the statistics could have
> indicated that.
> 
> Taiwan a Better Customer
> 
> By the way, just to let members know, the people of Taiwan,
> numbering 22 million people, buy more from us annually than the 1.2
> Chinese on the mainland. The Taiwanese, with 22 million people,
> buy more consumer products from us than do 1.2 billion Chinese in
> the mainland.
> 
> What has happened? What has happened as a result of these
> nonsensical counterproductive policies, anti-American policies to
> some degree, even though our own government has acquiesced in
> them? It has resulted in a decline in domestic manufacturing
> facilities in the United States. In other words, we have been closing
> down our factories and putting our people out of work.
> 
> By the way, that does not mean the company is put out of business.
> Those factories spring up someplace else. There is this flood of
> Chinese products, the factory closes down, and guess where it
> reopens? It reopens, yes, in Communist China, using our modern
> technology and our capital, which is what the Chinese want to have
> invested in their country.
> 
> Taxing Americans to Help Communism
> 
> Adding insult to injury, our working people, some of them, whose
> jobs are being threatened by imports, our working people are being
> taxed in order to provide taxpayer-subsidized loans and loan
> guarantees for those corporate leaders wishing to close down their
> operations in the United States and set up on the mainland of China.
> 
> Even if China was a free country, that would not be a good idea. I do
> not believe we should be doing that even for democratic countries.
> But for us to do that to a Communist dictatorship or any kind of
> dictatorship, to have the American taxpayer subsidize these
> investments, taking the risks on the shoulders of the American
> taxpayer in order to build the economy of a vicious dictatorship, this
> is insane. This is an insane policy. This is not free trade between
> free people. It has nothing to do with free trade. It is subsidized trade
> with subjugated people.
> 
> Companies that were permitted to sell their product to the Chinese
> in these last 10 years, and there have been a few, companies like
> Boeing who have attempted to sell airplanes to China, have found
> themselves in a very bad predicament. As part of the deal enabling
> them to sell planes now to Communist China, they have had to set
> up manufacturing facilities in China to build the parts, or at least
> some of the parts for the airplane.
> 
> Thus, over a period of time, what the Chinese have managed to do
> is to have the United States just build factories and pay for them. Or,
> as part of an agreement to sell the airplane, we have set up an
> aerospace industry in China that will compete with our own
> aerospace industry.
> 
> I come from California. I come from a district in which aerospace is
> a mighty important part of our economy. I just want to thank all the
> people who have permitted this policy, this blackmail of American
> companies, to go on under the name, under the guise of free trade.
> It is going to sell out our own national interest 10 years down the
> road when these people will have a modern aerospace industry
> building weapons and being able to undercut our own people. Gee,
> thanks.
> 
> Making matters worse, many of the so-called companies in China
> that are partnering with American industrialists, and American
> industrialists, when they are going to build in China, are often
> required to have a Chinese company as their partner as a
> prerequisite to them investing in China, in short order these
> so-called partners end up taking over the company. So many of
> American companies have been there and have been burned.
> 
> Guess what, we look at these private Chinese companies that were
> partners with our American firms, we look at them, and what do we
> find out? They are not private companies at all. Many of them are
> subsidiaries of the People's Liberation Army. That is right, the
> Communist Chinese army owns these companies. These are
> nothing more than military people in civilian clothing. Their profits
> end up paying for weapons targeting America, and we are paying
> them to build the companies that make those profits.
> 
> 'Alarming Betrayal of American Security'
> 
> Perhaps the most alarming betrayal of American national security
> interests surfaced about 5 years ago when some of America's
> biggest aerospace firms went into China hoping to use Chinese
> rockets to launch American satellites. They were trying to make a
> fast buck. It did not cost them a lot more to launch satellites here.
> 
> Yes, the Chinese were insisting that any satellites we put up for them
> be put up on their rockets. I personally thought that, as long as we
> made sure there was no technology transfer, that was an okay
> policy. As long as we just launched our American satellite which
> helped them set up a telephone system or something in China, that
> is fine if they never got ahold of it, and that would be okay.
> 
> I was guaranteed, along with the other Members of this body, there
> would be incredible safeguards. The last administration briefed us
> on the safeguards. Then as soon as we approved of letting these
> satellite deals go through and our satellites be launched on Chinese
> rockets, the administration trash canned all of the safeguards. I do
> not understand it. I do not understand why people did this.
> 
> But when all was said and done, the Communist Chinese rocket
> arsenal was filled with more reliable and more capable rockets,
> thanks to Loral, Hughes and other aerospace firms. Communist
> Chinese rockets, which were a joke 10 years ago, when Bill Clinton
> became President of the United States, they were a joke, one out of
> 10 failed, exploded before they could get into space. Today they are
> dramatically more likely to hit their targets, and they even carry
> multiple warheads. Where before they had one warhead and nine
> out of 10 would explode, now about 9 out of 10 get to their target,
> and some of them are carrying multiple warheads.
> 
> The Cox Report
> 
> The Cox report detailed this travesty. We should not forget the Cox
> report. Unfortunately, there has been innuendo after innuendo as if
> the Cox report has in some way been proven wrong. There are no
> reports that indicate that what the gentleman from California (Mr.
> COX) and his task force proved has in some way been discredited.
> In fact, there was a transfer of technology to the Communist Chinese
> that did great damage to our national security and put millions of
> American lives at risk that did not have to be put at risk.
> 
> Yet, even with all this staring Congress in the face, we have
> continued to give Most Favored Nations status to China and even
> now vote to make them part of the World Trade Organization. Why?
> One explanation, well just bad theory. Expanding trade, of course,
> they believe will make things better. But expanding trade did not
> make things better. Expanding trade with a dictatorship, as I have
> mentioned, just expands the power base and solidifies the bad guys
> in power.
> 
> Of course the other explanation of why all this is going on, why we
> end up seeing our national security trashed is pure greed on some
> individuals' parts.
> 
> Our businessmen have been blinded, not by the dream of selling
> U.S.-made products to China as they would have you believe in the
> debates here on the floor of the House, but rather blinded by the
> vision of using virtually slave labor for quick profits on the mainland
> of China.
> 
> With little or no competition, no negotiators, no lawyers, no
> environmental restrictions, no unions, no public consent, it sounds
> like a businessman's dream to me. Yes, it is a businessman's
> dream if you just blot out the picture of a grinding tyranny and the
> human rights abuses that are going on and the horrible threat to the
> United States of America that is emerging because of the things
> that are going on and the things that are being done.
> 
> Because you are a businessman, because you are engaged in
> making a profit as we are free to do in the United States does not
> exempt you from being a patriot or being loyal to the security
> interests of the United States of America.
> 
> Today's American overseas businessman quite often is a far cry
> from the Yankee clipper captains of days gone by. In those days, our
> Yankee clipper ships sailed the ocean, cut through those seas, the
> Seven Seas. They were full going over, and they were full coming
> back. They waived our flag. Our flag was flying from those clipper
> ships, and our flag stood for freedom and justice. Those Yankee
> clipper captains and those business entrepreneurs were proud to
> be Americans.
> 
> Today, America's tycoons often see nationalism, read that loyalty to
> the United States, as an antiquated notion. They are players in the
> global economy now, they feel. Patriotism they believe is old think.
> 
> Well, we cannot rely on the decisions of people like this to
> determine what the interests of the United States of America is to
> be. Yet, the influence of these billionaires and these tycoons, these
> people who would be willing to invest in a dictatorship or a
> democracy, they could care less which one, they do not care if there
> is blood dripping off the hand that hands them the dollar bills, those
> individuals influence our government. Their influence on this elected
> body is monumental, if not insurmountable at times.
> 
> 'People Must Be Free'
> 
> I believe in capitalism. I am a capitalist. I am someone who believes
> in the free enterprise system, make no mistake about it. But free is
> the ultimate word. People must be free to be involved in enterprise.
> We must respect the basic tenets of liberty and justice that have
> provided us a country in which people are free to uplift themselves
> through hard work and through enterprise.
> 
> Today, more often than not, we are talking about how people are
> trying to find out ways of manipulating government on how to make a
> profit, not how to build a better product that will enrich everyone's life
> and make a profit by doing that, which is the essence of the free
> enterprise system.
> 
> More and more people are not even looking again to this great
> country and considering this great country for the role that it is
> playing in this world and how important it is and how we should
> never sacrifice the security of this country. Because if this country
> falls, the hope for freedom and justice everywhere in the world falls.
> No, instead they have put their baskets, not in the United States of
> America, put their eggs in the basket of globalism. Well, globalism
> will not work without democratic reform.
> 
> China will corrupt the WTO, the World Trade Organization, just as it
> has corrupted the election processes in the United States of
> America. You can see it now 20 years from now, maybe 10 years
> from now, the panels of the WTO, you know, made up of countries
> from all over the world, Latin America, Africa, Middle East. There
> are members of those panels making these decisions, they will not
> have ever been elected by anybody, much less the people of the
> United States of America, yet we will be expected to follow their
> dictates. Communist China, they will pay those people off in a
> heartbeat. Why not? They did it to our people.
> 
> The Clinton-Gore Scandals
> 
> Remember the campaign contributions given to Vice President
> Gore at the Buddhist Temple? Remember the money delivered to
> the Clinton's by Johnny Chung? Where did that money come from?
> We are talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars. Where did it
> come from? It originated with Chinese military officers.
> 
> These military officers were wearing civilian clothes. They were top
> officers in that part of the People's Liberation Army that produces
> missiles. That is where the money came from, all this while our most
> deadly missile technology was being transferred to Communist
> China. One wonders why the Communist Chinese leaders are
> arrogant and think that American leaders are cowards and corrupt
> when we let this happen.
> 
> Our country has, in short, had a disastrously counterproductive
> policy. We have, over the last 10 years, built our worst potential
> enemy from a weak, introverted power into a powerful economic
> military force, a force that is looking to dominate all of Asia. When I
> say worst potential enemy, that is not just my assessment. That is
> what the Communist Chinese leaders themselves believe and are
> planning for.
> 
> Why do you think Communist Chinese boss Jiang Zemin recently
> visited Cuba? He was in Cuba with Fidel Castro who hates our guts
> when he released the hostages, the American military personnel
> that he was holding hostage. What do you think that was all about?
> He was telling the whole world we are standing up to the United
> States of America, and they are our enemy. He was involved with an
> activity that was declaring to the world his hostility towards the
> United States.
> 
> Why, when you have a country like this who are professing hostility
> to the United States and doing such as this, why are we permitting
> them to buy up ports that will effectively give them control of the
> Panama Canal, which is what they did a year and a half ago.
> 
> Giving China the Panama Canal
> 
> The Panama Canal, the last administration let the Chinese, the
> Communist Chinese, through bribery, tremendously expand its
> power in Panama and, through bribery, let it get control of the port
> facilities at both ends of the Panama Canal. Why would we let such
> a thing happen?
> 
> In many ways, we are repeating history. In the 1920s, Japanese
> militarists wiped out Japan's fledgling democratic movement. That it
> did. In doing so, it set a course for Japan. Japan then was a racist
> power which believed it, too, had a right to dominate Asia.
> Japanese militarists also knew that only the United States of
> America stood in their way. This is deja vu all over again as Yogi
> Berra once said.
> 
> The Communist Chinese, too, are militarists who seek to dominate
> Asia. They think they are racially superior to everyone. They are
> unlike their Japanese predecessors, however, willing to go slow,
> and they have been going slow. But make no mistake about it, they
> intend to dominate Asia, all of it. And even know, their maps claim
> Siberia, Mongolia and huge chunks of the South China Sea.
> 
> The confrontation with our surveillance plane must be reviewed in
> this perspective if the damage to the United States and the
> imprudence and arrogance on the part of the communist Chinese
> are to be understood.
> 
> China's claim on the South China Sea includes the Spratley Islands.
> I have a map of the South China Sea with me tonight. Hainan Island.
> Our airplane was intercepted, knocked out of the sky somewhere in
> here. But what we are not told about and what the media is not
> focusing on and no one has been talking about is this plane was
> precisely in the waters between Hainan Island and the Spratley
> Islands.
> 
> For those who do not know what the Spratley Islands are, they are
> just a series of reefs that are under water at high tide and at low tide
> above water. They are just a short distance, as you can see, this is
> here, this is the Philippines; and right about 100 miles offshore, the
> Spratley Islands. Yet they are several hundred miles from China. Yet
> the Chinese are trying to claim these islands. That is what this was
> all about. Not only are these islands, the Spratley Islands, the home
> of natural gas and oil deposits, but they are also in a strategic
> location. The Spratly Islands, having them in China's power, having
> them being recognized as part of China, would, of course, be a
> disaster to the Philippines whose oil and gas that belongs to, but
> also it would give the Communist Chinese sovereignty rights which
> would permit them to bracket the South China Sea. China, Hainan
> Island, the Spratlys would bracket the South China Sea, from this
> land point to this land point. Thus, we have a situation where when
> China claims, which it does, a 200-mile zone, that would leave
> China with a stranglehold on the South China Sea which is one of
> the most important commercial areas on this planet. It would have a
> stranglehold on Japan and Korea.
> 
> What do you think our friends in the Persian Gulf, for example, would
> think about it if they understood that this was a power play, that what
> we had with the surveillance aircraft was a power play? The reason
> why the Communist Chinese were demanding an apology then, they
> were demanding an apology because supposedly we were in their
> airspace. If we apologized, that was a recognition of their
> sovereignty in bracketing with the Spratly Islands on one side and
> Hainan Island on the other side, bracketing the South China Sea. If
> we ended up apologizing to the Communist regime, it would have
> been taken as a legal recognition, a small one, of their sovereignty
> and their 200-mile limit. That is what this was all about. That is why
> they were playing hardball with us.
> 
> The American people and our allies are not being told that that is
> what the stakes were. This is a long-term effort on the part of the
> Communist Chinese to dominate the South China Sea and expand
> their power so they could call it maybe the Communist China Sea
> rather than the South China Sea. It behooves us to face these facts.
> That is what it was all about. That is why they wanted an apology and
> that is why they should not have gotten an apology.
> 
> I applaud this administration for wording its letter in a way that was
> not and could not in any way be interpreted as a recognition of the
> Chinese sovereignty over that airspace. An accommodationist
> policy toward Communist China, ignoring this type of aggression,
> ignoring human rights and democracy concerns while stressing
> expanded trade, and even through all this you have a bunch of
> people saying, ``Oh, isn't it lucky we have trade relations or we
> would really be in trouble with the Communist Chinese.'' Give me a
> break. But ignoring those other elements and just stressing trade as
> part of a so-called engagement theory has not worked.
> 
> The regime in China is more powerful, more belligerent to the
> United States and more repressive than ever before. President
> Bush's decision in the wake of this incident at Hainan Island to sell
> an arms package to Taiwan including destroyers, submarines and
> an antiaircraft upgrade was good. At least it shows more moxie than
> what the last administration did.
> 
> I would have preferred to see the Aegis system be provided to our
> Taiwanese friends. But at least we have gone forward with a
> respectable arms deal that will help Taiwan defend itself and thus
> deter military action in that area.
> 
> Cancel 'All U.S. Military Exchanges' With China
> 
> But after the Hainan Island incident, the very least we should be
> doing is canceling all U.S. military exchanges with Communist
> China. I mean, I do not know if they are still delivering us those
> berets or not, but that is just ridiculous to think that we are 
> getting our
> military berets from Communist China. We should cancel all military
> exchanges.
> 
> The American people should be put on alert that they are in danger
> if they travel to the mainland of China. And we should quit using our
> tax dollars through the Export-Import Bank, the IMF and the World
> Bank to subsidize big business when they want to build a factory in
> China or in any other dictatorship.
> 
> Why are we helping Vietnam and China? Why are we helping those
> dictatorships when nearby people, the people of the Philippines,
> whom I just mentioned, who are on the front line against this
> Communist aggression, who China is trying to flood drugs into their
> country. The Chinese army itself is involved in the drug trade going
> into the Philippines.
> 
> The Philippines are struggling to have a democracy. They have just
> had to remove a president who is being bribed. Bribed by whom?
> Bribed by organized crime figures from the mainland of China.
> When those people in the Philippines are struggling, why are we not
> trying to help them?
> 
> Let us not encourage American businesses to go to Vietnam or to
> Communist China, when you have got people right close by who are
> struggling to have a democratic government and love the United
> States of America. The people of the Philippines are strong and
> they love their freedom and their liberty, but they feel like they have
> been abandoned by the United States. And when we help factories
> to be set up in China rather than sending work to the Philippines,
> and they do not even have the money to buy the weapons to defend
> themselves in the Philippines. That is why it is important for us to
> stand tall, so they know they can count on us. But they can only count
> on us if we do what is right and have the courage to stand up.
> 
> The same with China and India. India is not my favorite country in the
> world, but I will tell you this much, the Indians are struggling to have a
> free and democratic society. They have democratic institutions, and
> it is a struggle because they have so many varied people that live in
> India. But they are struggling to make their country better and to
> have a democratic system and to have rights and have a court
> system that functions, to have opposition newspapers. They do not
> have any of that in China. Yet instead of helping the Indian people,
> we are helping the Communist Chinese people? This is misplaced
> priorities at best.
> 
> Finally, in this atmosphere of turmoil and confrontation, let us never
> forget who are our greatest allies, and that is the Chinese people
> themselves. Let no mistake in the wording that I have used tonight
> indicate that I hold the Chinese people accountable or synonymous
> with the Chinese government or with Beijing or with the Communist
> Party in China. The people of China are as freedom-loving and as
> pro-American as any people of the world.
> 
> The people of China are not separated from the rest of humanity.
> They too want freedom and honest government. They want to
> improve their lives. They do not want a corrupt dictatorship over
> them. And any struggle for peace and prosperity, any plan for our
> country to try to bring peace to the world and to bring a better life
> and to support the cause of freedom must include the people of
> China.
> 
> We do not want war. We want the people of China to be free. Then
> we could have free and open trade because it would be a free
> country and it would be free trade between free people instead of
> this travesty that we have today, which is a trade policy that
> strengthens the dictatorship.
> 
> When the young people of China rose up and gathered together at
> Tiananmen Square, they used our Statue of Liberty as a model for
> their own goddess of liberty. That was the statue that they held forth.
> That was their dream. They dreamed that her torch, the goddess of
> liberty, would enlighten all China and they dreamed of a China
> democratic, prosperous and free. Our shortsighted policy of
> subsidized one-way trade crushes that goddess of liberty every bit
> as much as those Red Army tanks did 12 years ago.
> 
> 'Re-examine Our Souls'
> 
> Let us re-examine our souls. Let us re-examine our policies. Let us
> reach out to the people of China and claim together that we are all
> people of this planet, as our forefathers said, we are the ones, we
> are the people who have been given by God the rights of life, liberty
> and the pursuit of happiness. That is not just for Americans. That is
> for all the people of the world.
> 
> And when we recognize that and reach out with honesty and not for
> a quick buck, not just to make a quick buck and then get out, but
> instead to reach over to those people and help them build their
> country, then we will have a future of peace and prosperity.
> 
> It will not happen if we sell out our own national security interests. It
> will not happen if we are only siding with the ruling elite in China. We
> want to share a world with the people of China. We are on their side.
> 
> Let me say this. That includes those soldiers in the People's
> Liberation Army. The people in the People's Liberation Army come
> from the population of China. They and those other forces at work in
> China should rise up and join with all the other people in the world,
> especially the American people, who believe in justice and truth; and
> we will wipe away those people at the negotiating table today that
> represent both sides of this negotiation, and we will sit face-to-face
> with all the people in the world who love justice and freedom and
> democracy, just as our forefathers thought was America's rightful
> role, and we will build a better world that way.
> 
> We will not do it through a World Trade Organization. We will do it
> by respecting our own rights and respecting the rights of every other
> country and every other people on this planet.
> 
> I hope that tonight the American people have heard these words.
> The course is not unalterable. This is a new administration. And in
> this new administration, I would hope that we reverse these horrible
> mistakes that have compromised our national security and
> undermined the cause of liberty and justice.
> 
> I look forward to working with this administration to doing what is
> right for our country and right for the cause of peace and freedom.
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> Rick Horowitz
> 
> 
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RE: Boycott China - please read - your life may depend on it

[David Patton <DP...@quovera.com>]

Rick:

Not sure who you are, or how yu got my email address, or why you sent me
this, but frankly I think what you are proposing is incredibly stupid and
shortsighted.  Do you realize that approximately 60% or so of the goods sold
in this country are made in China.  Not to mention that China is the largest
holder of US Treasury Bonds.  What does this mean?  It means we are
economically  interdependent on CHina and that waging any sort of economic
warfare such as a boycott of theoir goods, will only hurt the United States
in the long run.  As for our trade deficit with China, I submit that is due
primarily to our own economic policy blunders.  As for the other points:
Who cares if Russia is selling equipment to China, Those torpedos (Aircraft
Carrier Killers) which you so alarmingly called attention to have been
around for years.  They are wake homing torpedoes, and you are right we have
no defense against them.  BUt we have the same thing.  Lets also not forget
that having a torpedo doesnt do much good if you cant get close enough to
launch it, and Chinese submarines are noisy and easy to track.  Yes Chinese
military doctrine calls for a military confrontation with the US within 20
to 30 years.  So what?  At least we know about it.  If I were you I would be
more concerned with an internal revolution inside China destabilizing the
government, and causing a civil war.  That is more of a threat than China
itself.  So in short what I am trying to say is please do not bother me with
alarmist uninformed right wing rhetoric.  Thank you and have a nice day.

-----Original Messa saying is ge-----
From: Rick Horowitz [mailto:rickhoro@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 15:22
To: Horowitz
Subject: Boycott China - please read - your life may depend on it


Hello Everyone,

The following speech, reprinted from www.newsmax.com, was made this Tuesday
night by U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of California. I urge you all to
read every word of this speech. I have been aware of much of the budding
catastrophe we face regarding China, yet have not seen the issues
articulated with anything near the clarity that Mr. Rohrabacher does in
this speech.

My wife and I began boycotting Chinese-made goods about a year ago in
recognition of the reasons outlined here. I urge every one of you to
forward this message to everyone in your email list, and begin boycotting
Chinese goods immediately.

My own brief summary of the issues:

1. Our extreme trade deficit vs. China (nearly $100B per year now) has been
used for a massive military buildup, with the U.S. as the ultimate target.
2. Russia is selling their most advanced arms to China, capable of
destroying our aircraft carriers, including a supersonic torpedo technology
that is far beyond anything that we have and for which we have no defense.
3. Our leading defense contractors, including Loral, Boeing, Hughes,
Motorola, and others have sold advanced military technology to China over
the past few years, including technology that now enables Chinese
nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles to accurately hit
American cities, something they were not able to do prior to this transfer
of technology.
4. The majority of the "partner" companies of U.S. ventures in China are in
fact owned and operated by the PLA (the People's Liberation Army - the
Chinese army). These are not commercial interests.
5. The U.S. government (read you and I) have been providing tax breaks to
American companies to close up factories in the U.S. and reopen them in
China. These factories transfer advanced technology in many cases, put
Americans out of work, and provide cash to the Chinese to further their
military expansion.

I hope these points and the following reprinted speech make you think long
and hard about our position regarding China, and that you:

1. Start boycotting Chinese-made goods immediately
2. Send this message to everyone on your email list. Please don't be
embarrassed to take a stand on this. I assure you, it is not my imagination
that China poses a significant threat to our safety and future, and we are
giving them the money, technology, and weaponry to carry out their many
threats already made against our country.

Here's one informational link...I'm sure you can find may others yourself.

PLEASE read Mr. Rohrabacher's speech, below:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/chinamissiles_990409.html
....includes, "A Chinese official hinted at launching a nuclear weapon
at Los Angeles in 1996, when U.S. warships confronted
China over missile firings near Taiwan."

Make no mistake about it. The Chinese government is a dictatorship, and is
very dangerous.

Sincerely,

Rick Horowitz

Rohrabacher Slams U.S. Aid to China

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher
Thursday, April 26, 2001

Editor's note: This is the text of a speech on the House floor by
U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., Tuesday night.

Mr. Speaker, one month ago, the Communist regime that controls
the mainland of China attacked an American surveillance aircraft
while it was in international waters. After being knocked out of the
sky, 24 American military personnel, the crew of the surveillance
craft, were held hostage for nearly 2 weeks. The Communist
Chinese blamed us and would not return the crew until the United
States was humiliated before the world.

Wake up, America. What is going on here? Large financial interests
in our country whose only goal is exploiting the cheap, near-slave
labor of China have been leading our country down the path to
catastrophe. How much more proof do we need that the so-called
engagement theory is a total failure?

Our massive investment in China, pushed and promoted by
American billionaires and multinational corporations, has created
not a more peaceful, democratic China, but an aggressive
nuclear-armed bully that now threatens the world with its hostile acts
and proliferation. Do the Communist Chinese have to murder
American personnel or attack the United States or our allies with
their missiles before those who blithesomely pontificate about the
civilizing benefits of building the Chinese economy will admit that
China for a decade has been going in the opposite direction than
predicted by the so-called ``free traders.''

'We Have Made a Monstrous Mistake'

We have made a monstrous mistake, and if we do not face reality
and change our fundamental policies, instead of peace, there will be
conflict. Instead of democratic reform, we will see a further
retrenchment of a regime that is run by gangsters and thugs, the
world's worst human rights abusers.

Let us go back to basics. The mainland of China is controlled by a
rigid, Stalinistic Communist party. The regime is committing
genocide in Tibet. It is holding as a captive the designated
successor of the Dalai Lama, who is the spiritual leader of the
Tibetan people. By the way, this person, the designated new leader,
is a little boy. They are holding hostage a little boy in order to
terrorize the Tibetan people. The regime is now, at this moment,
arresting thousands of members of the Falun Gong, which is nothing
more threatening than a meditation and yoga society. Christians of
all denominations are being brutalized unless they register with the
state and attend controlled churches. Just in the last few days, there
has been a round-up of Catholics who were practicing their faith
outside of state control. Now they are in a Chinese prison.

There are no opposition parties in China. There is no free press in
China. China is not a free society under anyone's definition. More
importantly, it is not a society that is evolving toward freedom.

President Richard Nixon first established our ties with the
Communist Chinese in 1972 at the height of the Cold War. That was
a brilliant move. At that particular moment, it was a brilliant move. It
enabled us to play the power of one dictatorship off the power of
another dictatorship. We played one against the other at a time
when we had been weakened by the Vietnam War and at a time
when Soviet Russia was on the offensive.

During the Reagan years, we dramatically expanded our ties to
China, but do not miss the essential fact that justified that
relationship and made it different than what has been going on
these last 10 years. China was at that time, during the Reagan
administration, evolving toward a freer, more open society, a
growing democratic movement was evident, and the United States,
our government and our people, fostered this movement. Under
President Reagan, we brought tens of thousands of students here,
and we sent teams from our National Endowment for Democracy
there. We were working with them to build a more democratic
society, and it looked like that was what was going to happen. All of
this ended, of course, in Tiananmen Square over 10 years ago.

'Tanks to Wipe Out the Opposition'

Thousands of Chinese gathered there in Tiananmen Square in
Beijing to demand a more open and democratic government. For a
moment, it appeared like there had been an historic breakthrough.
Then, from out of the darkness came battle-hardened troops and
tanks to wipe out the opposition. The people who ordered that
attack are still holding the reins of power in China today and, like all
other criminals who get away with scurrilous deeds, they have
become emboldened and arrogant.

My only lament is that had Ronald Reagan been president during
that time of Tiananmen Square, things, I think, would have been
different; but he was not. Since that turn of events about 12 years
ago, things have been progressively worse. The repression is more
evident than ever. The belligerence and hostility of Beijing is even
more open. Underscoring the insanity of it all, the Communist
Chinese have been using their huge trade surplus with the United
States to upgrade their military and expand its warfighting
capabilities.

Communist China's arsenal of jets, its ballistic missiles, its naval
forces have all been modernized and reinforced. In the last 2 years,
they have purchased destroyers from the former Soviet Union.
These destroyers are armed with Sunburn missiles. These were
systems that were designed during the Cold War by the Russians to
destroy American aircraft carriers.

Yes, the Communist Chinese are arming themselves to sink
American aircraft carriers, to kill thousands upon thousands of
American sailors. Make no mistake about it, China's military might
now threatens America and world peace. If there is a crisis in that
part of the world again, which there will be, we can predict that some
day, unlike the last crisis when American aircraft carriers were able
to become a peaceful element to bring moderation of judgment
among the players who were in conflict, instead, American aircraft
carriers will find themselves vulnerable, and an American President
will have to face the choice of risking the lives of all of those sailors
on those aircraft carriers.

Mr. Speaker, how is it, then, that a relatively poor country can afford
to enlarge its military in such a way, to the point that it can threaten a
superpower such as the United States of America?

Even as China's slide into tyranny and militarism continued in these
last 12 years, the United States government has permitted a totally
indefensible economic rules of engagement to guide our
commercial ties with the mainland of China.

While China was going in the right direction, permitting that country
to have a large trade advantage and thus providing a large reserve
of hard currency may or may not have made sense, as long as
China was going in the right direction and going towards
democracy. Maybe we would like to build up a freer China that way.

It 'Makes No Sense' to Help Arm China

But it made no sense, and it still makes no sense, for the United
States to permit a country that is sinking even deeper into tyranny
and into anti-Western hostility to have a huge trade surplus as a
resource to call upon to meet their military needs.

In effect, the Communist Chinese have been using the tens of
billions of dollars of trade surplus with the United States each year to
build their military power and military might so some day the
Communist Chinese might be able to kill millions of our people, or at
least to threaten us to do that in order to back us down into defeat
without ever coming to a fight.

We have essentially been arming and equipping our worst potential
enemy and financing our own destruction. How could we let such a
crime against the security of our country happen? Well, it was
argued by some very sincere people that free trade would bring
positive change to China, and that engagement would civilize the
Communist regime.

Even as evidence stacked upon more evidence indicated that
China was not liberalizing, that just the opposite was happening, the
barkers for open markets kept singing their song:
``Most-favored-nation status, just give us this and things will get
better.'' It was nonsense then and it is nonsense today. But after all
that has happened, one would think that the shame factor would
silence these eternal optimists.

Perhaps I am a bit sensitive because, first and foremost, let me
state unequivocally that I consider myself a free trader. Yes, I believe
in free trade between free people. What we should strive for is to
have more and more open trade with all free and democratic
countries, or countries that are heading in the right direction.

I am thus positively inclined towards President Bush's efforts to
establish a free trade zone among the democratic countries in this
hemisphere. I will read the fine print, but my inclination is to facilitate
trade between democracies.

When I say, ``I will read the fine print,'' I will be especially concerned
with a free trade agreement, and I will be looking to that free trade
agreement to make sure that we have protection that our sensitive
technologies, which can be used for military purposes, will not be
transferred from the countries in our hemisphere, democratic
countries in our hemisphere, to China or to any other countries that
are potential enemies of the United States. This will have to be in
that free trade agreement.

There will have to be protections against the transfer of our
technology to our enemies. This is more of a concern following new
science and technology agreements that were signed by China and
countries like Brazil and Venezuela recently. Dictatorships are
always going to try to gain in any agreement that they have with us,
and they are always going to try to manipulate other agreements
and the rules of the game so they can stay in power.

When one applies the rules of free trade to a controlled society, as
we have been told over and over again, more trade, and let us have
free trade with China, that is going to make them more dependent
on us and they will be freer and more prosperous, more likely to be
peaceful people, well, if we apply the rules of free trade to a
dictatorship, ultimately what happens is that it is only free trade in
one direction.

On one end we have free people, a democratic people who are not
controlled by their government, and thus are basically unregulated
and are moving forward for their own benefit. But on the other end,
the trade will be controlled and manipulated to ensure that the
current establishment of that country stays in power.

Never has that been more evident than in America's dealing with
Communist China. In this case, it is so very blatant.

Those advocating most-favored-nation status, or as it is called now,
normal trade relations, have always based their case on the boon to
our country represented by the sale of American goods to ``the
world's largest market.'' That is their argument. Here on this floor
over and over and over again we heard people say, ``We have to
have these normal trade relations because we have to sell our
products, the products made by the American people, to the world's
largest market.''

This Is Free Trade?

That is a great pitch. The only problem is, it is not true. The sale of
U.S.-produced vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, autos, you name the
commercial item, are almost a non-factor in the trade relationship
between our countries. They are a minuscule amount of what is
considered the trade analysis of these two countries.

During these many years that we have given China
most-favored-nation status or normal trade relations, the power elite
there never lowered China's tariffs, and in fact increased the tariffs
in some areas, and erected barriers to prevent the sale of all but a
few U.S.-made products.

So while we had low tariffs, and intentionally brought our tariffs down
by most-favored-nation, for over a decade, even as China was
slipping more into tyranny, they were permitted to have high tariffs
and block our goods from coming in.

Beijing would not permit its own people to buy American-made
consumer items. They were not looking for a trade relationship with
the United States for their people to be able to buy American
products. That is not what they were looking for. That is not what it
was all about. They knew it, but yet our people were told over and
over and over and over and over again, ``Oh, we have to have
most-favored-nation status and normal trade relations in order to sell
American products to the world's largest market.''

That is not what was going on. It is not what the reality was. Instead,
the Communist Chinese were out to get American money, lots of it,
and American money to build factories, and they wanted the
Americans to build the factories with our technology and our money
in their country.

By the way, many of the factories that were built there were not built
in order to sell products to the Chinese people. Those factories
were built to export products to the United States.

The system that developed with the acquiescence of our
government, and this is no secret, what I am talking about tonight is
no secret to anyone except to the American people, our government
acquiesced to this for years, this policy put the American people, the
American working people, on the losing end of the transformational
action in the long run and sometimes even in the medium run.

The Chinese, because of our low tariffs, flooded our market with
their products, and blocked our goods from entering China, and all
the while we were hearing over and over again, ``We must have
most-favored-nation status in order to sell American products in the
world's largest market.''

They droned on year after year that most-favored-nation status was
so important to selling our products in the world's largest market. I
will just repeat that four or five times, because we must have heard it
a thousand times on this floor, and every time said, I am sure, in
complete sincerity by the people who were expressing it, but were
totally wrong. A very quick look into the statistics could have
indicated that.

Taiwan a Better Customer

By the way, just to let members know, the people of Taiwan,
numbering 22 million people, buy more from us annually than the 1.2
Chinese on the mainland. The Taiwanese, with 22 million people,
buy more consumer products from us than do 1.2 billion Chinese in
the mainland.

What has happened? What has happened as a result of these
nonsensical counterproductive policies, anti-American policies to
some degree, even though our own government has acquiesced in
them? It has resulted in a decline in domestic manufacturing
facilities in the United States. In other words, we have been closing
down our factories and putting our people out of work.

By the way, that does not mean the company is put out of business.
Those factories spring up someplace else. There is this flood of
Chinese products, the factory closes down, and guess where it
reopens? It reopens, yes, in Communist China, using our modern
technology and our capital, which is what the Chinese want to have
invested in their country.

Taxing Americans to Help Communism

Adding insult to injury, our working people, some of them, whose
jobs are being threatened by imports, our working people are being
taxed in order to provide taxpayer-subsidized loans and loan
guarantees for those corporate leaders wishing to close down their
operations in the United States and set up on the mainland of China.

Even if China was a free country, that would not be a good idea. I do
not believe we should be doing that even for democratic countries.
But for us to do that to a Communist dictatorship or any kind of
dictatorship, to have the American taxpayer subsidize these
investments, taking the risks on the shoulders of the American
taxpayer in order to build the economy of a vicious dictatorship, this
is insane. This is an insane policy. This is not free trade between
free people. It has nothing to do with free trade. It is subsidized trade
with subjugated people.

Companies that were permitted to sell their product to the Chinese
in these last 10 years, and there have been a few, companies like
Boeing who have attempted to sell airplanes to China, have found
themselves in a very bad predicament. As part of the deal enabling
them to sell planes now to Communist China, they have had to set
up manufacturing facilities in China to build the parts, or at least
some of the parts for the airplane.

Thus, over a period of time, what the Chinese have managed to do
is to have the United States just build factories and pay for them. Or,
as part of an agreement to sell the airplane, we have set up an
aerospace industry in China that will compete with our own
aerospace industry.

I come from California. I come from a district in which aerospace is
a mighty important part of our economy. I just want to thank all the
people who have permitted this policy, this blackmail of American
companies, to go on under the name, under the guise of free trade.
It is going to sell out our own national interest 10 years down the
road when these people will have a modern aerospace industry
building weapons and being able to undercut our own people. Gee,
thanks.

Making matters worse, many of the so-called companies in China
that are partnering with American industrialists, and American
industrialists, when they are going to build in China, are often
required to have a Chinese company as their partner as a
prerequisite to them investing in China, in short order these
so-called partners end up taking over the company. So many of
American companies have been there and have been burned.

Guess what, we look at these private Chinese companies that were
partners with our American firms, we look at them, and what do we
find out? They are not private companies at all. Many of them are
subsidiaries of the People's Liberation Army. That is right, the
Communist Chinese army owns these companies. These are
nothing more than military people in civilian clothing. Their profits
end up paying for weapons targeting America, and we are paying
them to build the companies that make those profits.

'Alarming Betrayal of American Security'

Perhaps the most alarming betrayal of American national security
interests surfaced about 5 years ago when some of America's
biggest aerospace firms went into China hoping to use Chinese
rockets to launch American satellites. They were trying to make a
fast buck. It did not cost them a lot more to launch satellites here.

Yes, the Chinese were insisting that any satellites we put up for them
be put up on their rockets. I personally thought that, as long as we
made sure there was no technology transfer, that was an okay
policy. As long as we just launched our American satellite which
helped them set up a telephone system or something in China, that
is fine if they never got ahold of it, and that would be okay.

I was guaranteed, along with the other Members of this body, there
would be incredible safeguards. The last administration briefed us
on the safeguards. Then as soon as we approved of letting these
satellite deals go through and our satellites be launched on Chinese
rockets, the administration trash canned all of the safeguards. I do
not understand it. I do not understand why people did this.

But when all was said and done, the Communist Chinese rocket
arsenal was filled with more reliable and more capable rockets,
thanks to Loral, Hughes and other aerospace firms. Communist
Chinese rockets, which were a joke 10 years ago, when Bill Clinton
became President of the United States, they were a joke, one out of
10 failed, exploded before they could get into space. Today they are
dramatically more likely to hit their targets, and they even carry
multiple warheads. Where before they had one warhead and nine
out of 10 would explode, now about 9 out of 10 get to their target,
and some of them are carrying multiple warheads.

The Cox Report

The Cox report detailed this travesty. We should not forget the Cox
report. Unfortunately, there has been innuendo after innuendo as if
the Cox report has in some way been proven wrong. There are no
reports that indicate that what the gentleman from California (Mr.
COX) and his task force proved has in some way been discredited.
In fact, there was a transfer of technology to the Communist Chinese
that did great damage to our national security and put millions of
American lives at risk that did not have to be put at risk.

Yet, even with all this staring Congress in the face, we have
continued to give Most Favored Nations status to China and even
now vote to make them part of the World Trade Organization. Why?
One explanation, well just bad theory. Expanding trade, of course,
they believe will make things better. But expanding trade did not
make things better. Expanding trade with a dictatorship, as I have
mentioned, just expands the power base and solidifies the bad guys
in power.

Of course the other explanation of why all this is going on, why we
end up seeing our national security trashed is pure greed on some
individuals' parts.

Our businessmen have been blinded, not by the dream of selling
U.S.-made products to China as they would have you believe in the
debates here on the floor of the House, but rather blinded by the
vision of using virtually slave labor for quick profits on the mainland
of China.

With little or no competition, no negotiators, no lawyers, no
environmental restrictions, no unions, no public consent, it sounds
like a businessman's dream to me. Yes, it is a businessman's
dream if you just blot out the picture of a grinding tyranny and the
human rights abuses that are going on and the horrible threat to the
United States of America that is emerging because of the things
that are going on and the things that are being done.

Because you are a businessman, because you are engaged in
making a profit as we are free to do in the United States does not
exempt you from being a patriot or being loyal to the security
interests of the United States of America.

Today's American overseas businessman quite often is a far cry
from the Yankee clipper captains of days gone by. In those days, our
Yankee clipper ships sailed the ocean, cut through those seas, the
Seven Seas. They were full going over, and they were full coming
back. They waived our flag. Our flag was flying from those clipper
ships, and our flag stood for freedom and justice. Those Yankee
clipper captains and those business entrepreneurs were proud to
be Americans.

Today, America's tycoons often see nationalism, read that loyalty to
the United States, as an antiquated notion. They are players in the
global economy now, they feel. Patriotism they believe is old think.

Well, we cannot rely on the decisions of people like this to
determine what the interests of the United States of America is to
be. Yet, the influence of these billionaires and these tycoons, these
people who would be willing to invest in a dictatorship or a
democracy, they could care less which one, they do not care if there
is blood dripping off the hand that hands them the dollar bills, those
individuals influence our government. Their influence on this elected
body is monumental, if not insurmountable at times.

'People Must Be Free'

I believe in capitalism. I am a capitalist. I am someone who believes
in the free enterprise system, make no mistake about it. But free is
the ultimate word. People must be free to be involved in enterprise.
We must respect the basic tenets of liberty and justice that have
provided us a country in which people are free to uplift themselves
through hard work and through enterprise.

Today, more often than not, we are talking about how people are
trying to find out ways of manipulating government on how to make a
profit, not how to build a better product that will enrich everyone's life
and make a profit by doing that, which is the essence of the free
enterprise system.

More and more people are not even looking again to this great
country and considering this great country for the role that it is
playing in this world and how important it is and how we should
never sacrifice the security of this country. Because if this country
falls, the hope for freedom and justice everywhere in the world falls.
No, instead they have put their baskets, not in the United States of
America, put their eggs in the basket of globalism. Well, globalism
will not work without democratic reform.

China will corrupt the WTO, the World Trade Organization, just as it
has corrupted the election processes in the United States of
America. You can see it now 20 years from now, maybe 10 years
from now, the panels of the WTO, you know, made up of countries
from all over the world, Latin America, Africa, Middle East. There
are members of those panels making these decisions, they will not
have ever been elected by anybody, much less the people of the
United States of America, yet we will be expected to follow their
dictates. Communist China, they will pay those people off in a
heartbeat. Why not? They did it to our people.

The Clinton-Gore Scandals

Remember the campaign contributions given to Vice President
Gore at the Buddhist Temple? Remember the money delivered to
the Clinton's by Johnny Chung? Where did that money come from?
We are talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars. Where did it
come from? It originated with Chinese military officers.

These military officers were wearing civilian clothes. They were top
officers in that part of the People's Liberation Army that produces
missiles. That is where the money came from, all this while our most
deadly missile technology was being transferred to Communist
China. One wonders why the Communist Chinese leaders are
arrogant and think that American leaders are cowards and corrupt
when we let this happen.

Our country has, in short, had a disastrously counterproductive
policy. We have, over the last 10 years, built our worst potential
enemy from a weak, introverted power into a powerful economic
military force, a force that is looking to dominate all of Asia. When I
say worst potential enemy, that is not just my assessment. That is
what the Communist Chinese leaders themselves believe and are
planning for.

Why do you think Communist Chinese boss Jiang Zemin recently
visited Cuba? He was in Cuba with Fidel Castro who hates our guts
when he released the hostages, the American military personnel
that he was holding hostage. What do you think that was all about?
He was telling the whole world we are standing up to the United
States of America, and they are our enemy. He was involved with an
activity that was declaring to the world his hostility towards the
United States.

Why, when you have a country like this who are professing hostility
to the United States and doing such as this, why are we permitting
them to buy up ports that will effectively give them control of the
Panama Canal, which is what they did a year and a half ago.

Giving China the Panama Canal

The Panama Canal, the last administration let the Chinese, the
Communist Chinese, through bribery, tremendously expand its
power in Panama and, through bribery, let it get control of the port
facilities at both ends of the Panama Canal. Why would we let such
a thing happen?

In many ways, we are repeating history. In the 1920s, Japanese
militarists wiped out Japan's fledgling democratic movement. That it
did. In doing so, it set a course for Japan. Japan then was a racist
power which believed it, too, had a right to dominate Asia.
Japanese militarists also knew that only the United States of
America stood in their way. This is deja vu all over again as Yogi
Berra once said.

The Communist Chinese, too, are militarists who seek to dominate
Asia. They think they are racially superior to everyone. They are
unlike their Japanese predecessors, however, willing to go slow,
and they have been going slow. But make no mistake about it, they
intend to dominate Asia, all of it. And even know, their maps claim
Siberia, Mongolia and huge chunks of the South China Sea.

The confrontation with our surveillance plane must be reviewed in
this perspective if the damage to the United States and the
imprudence and arrogance on the part of the communist Chinese
are to be understood.

China's claim on the South China Sea includes the Spratley Islands.
I have a map of the South China Sea with me tonight. Hainan Island.
Our airplane was intercepted, knocked out of the sky somewhere in
here. But what we are not told about and what the media is not
focusing on and no one has been talking about is this plane was
precisely in the waters between Hainan Island and the Spratley
Islands.

For those who do not know what the Spratley Islands are, they are
just a series of reefs that are under water at high tide and at low tide
above water. They are just a short distance, as you can see, this is
here, this is the Philippines; and right about 100 miles offshore, the
Spratley Islands. Yet they are several hundred miles from China. Yet
the Chinese are trying to claim these islands. That is what this was
all about. Not only are these islands, the Spratley Islands, the home
of natural gas and oil deposits, but they are also in a strategic
location. The Spratly Islands, having them in China's power, having
them being recognized as part of China, would, of course, be a
disaster to the Philippines whose oil and gas that belongs to, but
also it would give the Communist Chinese sovereignty rights which
would permit them to bracket the South China Sea. China, Hainan
Island, the Spratlys would bracket the South China Sea, from this
land point to this land point. Thus, we have a situation where when
China claims, which it does, a 200-mile zone, that would leave
China with a stranglehold on the South China Sea which is one of
the most important commercial areas on this planet. It would have a
stranglehold on Japan and Korea.

What do you think our friends in the Persian Gulf, for example, would
think about it if they understood that this was a power play, that what
we had with the surveillance aircraft was a power play? The reason
why the Communist Chinese were demanding an apology then, they
were demanding an apology because supposedly we were in their
airspace. If we apologized, that was a recognition of their
sovereignty in bracketing with the Spratly Islands on one side and
Hainan Island on the other side, bracketing the South China Sea. If
we ended up apologizing to the Communist regime, it would have
been taken as a legal recognition, a small one, of their sovereignty
and their 200-mile limit. That is what this was all about. That is why
they were playing hardball with us.

The American people and our allies are not being told that that is
what the stakes were. This is a long-term effort on the part of the
Communist Chinese to dominate the South China Sea and expand
their power so they could call it maybe the Communist China Sea
rather than the South China Sea. It behooves us to face these facts.
That is what it was all about. That is why they wanted an apology and
that is why they should not have gotten an apology.

I applaud this administration for wording its letter in a way that was
not and could not in any way be interpreted as a recognition of the
Chinese sovereignty over that airspace. An accommodationist
policy toward Communist China, ignoring this type of aggression,
ignoring human rights and democracy concerns while stressing
expanded trade, and even through all this you have a bunch of
people saying, ``Oh, isn't it lucky we have trade relations or we
would really be in trouble with the Communist Chinese.'' Give me a
break. But ignoring those other elements and just stressing trade as
part of a so-called engagement theory has not worked.

The regime in China is more powerful, more belligerent to the
United States and more repressive than ever before. President
Bush's decision in the wake of this incident at Hainan Island to sell
an arms package to Taiwan including destroyers, submarines and
an antiaircraft upgrade was good. At least it shows more moxie than
what the last administration did.

I would have preferred to see the Aegis system be provided to our
Taiwanese friends. But at least we have gone forward with a
respectable arms deal that will help Taiwan defend itself and thus
deter military action in that area.

Cancel 'All U.S. Military Exchanges' With China

But after the Hainan Island incident, the very least we should be
doing is canceling all U.S. military exchanges with Communist
China. I mean, I do not know if they are still delivering us those
berets or not, but that is just ridiculous to think that we are getting our
military berets from Communist China. We should cancel all military
exchanges.

The American people should be put on alert that they are in danger
if they travel to the mainland of China. And we should quit using our
tax dollars through the Export-Import Bank, the IMF and the World
Bank to subsidize big business when they want to build a factory in
China or in any other dictatorship.

Why are we helping Vietnam and China? Why are we helping those
dictatorships when nearby people, the people of the Philippines,
whom I just mentioned, who are on the front line against this
Communist aggression, who China is trying to flood drugs into their
country. The Chinese army itself is involved in the drug trade going
into the Philippines.

The Philippines are struggling to have a democracy. They have just
had to remove a president who is being bribed. Bribed by whom?
Bribed by organized crime figures from the mainland of China.
When those people in the Philippines are struggling, why are we not
trying to help them?

Let us not encourage American businesses to go to Vietnam or to
Communist China, when you have got people right close by who are
struggling to have a democratic government and love the United
States of America. The people of the Philippines are strong and
they love their freedom and their liberty, but they feel like they have
been abandoned by the United States. And when we help factories
to be set up in China rather than sending work to the Philippines,
and they do not even have the money to buy the weapons to defend
themselves in the Philippines. That is why it is important for us to
stand tall, so they know they can count on us. But they can only count
on us if we do what is right and have the courage to stand up.

The same with China and India. India is not my favorite country in the
world, but I will tell you this much, the Indians are struggling to have a
free and democratic society. They have democratic institutions, and
it is a struggle because they have so many varied people that live in
India. But they are struggling to make their country better and to
have a democratic system and to have rights and have a court
system that functions, to have opposition newspapers. They do not
have any of that in China. Yet instead of helping the Indian people,
we are helping the Communist Chinese people? This is misplaced
priorities at best.

Finally, in this atmosphere of turmoil and confrontation, let us never
forget who are our greatest allies, and that is the Chinese people
themselves. Let no mistake in the wording that I have used tonight
indicate that I hold the Chinese people accountable or synonymous
with the Chinese government or with Beijing or with the Communist
Party in China. The people of China are as freedom-loving and as
pro-American as any people of the world.

The people of China are not separated from the rest of humanity.
They too want freedom and honest government. They want to
improve their lives. They do not want a corrupt dictatorship over
them. And any struggle for peace and prosperity, any plan for our
country to try to bring peace to the world and to bring a better life
and to support the cause of freedom must include the people of
China.

We do not want war. We want the people of China to be free. Then
we could have free and open trade because it would be a free
country and it would be free trade between free people instead of
this travesty that we have today, which is a trade policy that
strengthens the dictatorship.

When the young people of China rose up and gathered together at
Tiananmen Square, they used our Statue of Liberty as a model for
their own goddess of liberty. That was the statue that they held forth.
That was their dream. They dreamed that her torch, the goddess of
liberty, would enlighten all China and they dreamed of a China
democratic, prosperous and free. Our shortsighted policy of
subsidized one-way trade crushes that goddess of liberty every bit
as much as those Red Army tanks did 12 years ago.

'Re-examine Our Souls'

Let us re-examine our souls. Let us re-examine our policies. Let us
reach out to the people of China and claim together that we are all
people of this planet, as our forefathers said, we are the ones, we
are the people who have been given by God the rights of life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. That is not just for Americans. That is
for all the people of the world.

And when we recognize that and reach out with honesty and not for
a quick buck, not just to make a quick buck and then get out, but
instead to reach over to those people and help them build their
country, then we will have a future of peace and prosperity.

It will not happen if we sell out our own national security interests. It
will not happen if we are only siding with the ruling elite in China. We
want to share a world with the people of China. We are on their side.

Let me say this. That includes those soldiers in the People's
Liberation Army. The people in the People's Liberation Army come
from the population of China. They and those other forces at work in
China should rise up and join with all the other people in the world,
especially the American people, who believe in justice and truth; and
we will wipe away those people at the negotiating table today that
represent both sides of this negotiation, and we will sit face-to-face
with all the people in the world who love justice and freedom and
democracy, just as our forefathers thought was America's rightful
role, and we will build a better world that way.

We will not do it through a World Trade Organization. We will do it
by respecting our own rights and respecting the rights of every other
country and every other people on this planet.

I hope that tonight the American people have heard these words.
The course is not unalterable. This is a new administration. And in
this new administration, I would hope that we reverse these horrible
mistakes that have compromised our national security and
undermined the cause of liberty and justice.

I look forward to working with this administration to doing what is
right for our country and right for the cause of peace and freedom.



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Rick Horowitz


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