Time: Sun Nov 02 20:07:00 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA11735; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 20:02:52 -0700 (MST) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA11896; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 20:01:29 -0700 (MST) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd011872; Sun Nov 2 20:01:18 1997 Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 20:01:52 -0800 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: China: Red Tide Rising <snip> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >CHINA: Red Tide Rising > >By Ted Sampley > >March/April/May 1997 > >Our politicians are scheming to send the United States military back to >Vietnam where America may find its teenage sons again bleeding and >dying. This time, instead of wading the quagmire of blood fighting a >"police action" against the communist Vietnamese, our young men will be >used as a "diplomatic and military shield," protecting the communist >Vietnamese and their American business partners from a much anticipated >rising tide of Red Chinese military action in Southeast Asia. > >The American people have not been told that officials of the U.S. State >Department and Pentagon have been for several years plotting a >U.S./Vietnam mutual security agreement to replace a similar pact that >the Vietnamese had with the Soviet Union before it collapsed. >Cloaked in the supposed effort to account for American servicemen still >missing from the Vietnam War, the U.S. government established the Joint > >Task Force for a Full Accounting (JTF-FA). Instead of experienced >intelligence analysts and personnel familiar with and equipped to deal >with searching for MIAs, JTF-FA was staffed with veteran Operation > >Desert Storm officers and men experienced only in infantry, artillery, >and logistics operations. The secret plan will bloom into view now that the >U.S. has established full normalized relations with Vietnam and has posted a >U.S. ambassador >to Hanoi. The new U.S. Ambassador will soon formally negotiate and sign >the mutual defense pact. The officers and men of JTF-FA can then help >organize the nucleus for the Joint U.S. Military Assistance >Group-Vietnam (JUSMAGV). > >Since the late 1980s, the Red Chinese, driven by an unholy desire to >demonstrate that they will no longer allow other nations to limit their >ability to act where they believe their interests are involved, have >been patiently and steadily maneuvering to reduce or eliminate America's >ability to constrain them. > >To that end, intelligence analysts say, the Chinese military is >acquiring specific weapons and drawing up contingency battle plans that >will be targeted on U.S. forward-deployed units in the Pacific. They are >purchasing Russian-made warships, surface-to-surface missiles and >warplanes at an accelerating pace. The Russians are selling the latest >in military technology and greed driven business interests in the West >are selling them much needed civilian technology. > >Red Chinese operatives have been extremely busy lately in and around the >United States. Not only have they managed to gain access to the Clinton >White House by purchasing influence in recent U.S. elections with secret >campaign donations, they also leased an abandoned naval base in Long >Beach, California and gained control of two strategic ports, one at each >end of the Panama Canal. > >In March, 1995, Beijing announced a 21 percent rise in its defense >budget to the equivalent of $7.5 billion. Private analysts estimate its >actual defense spending is closer to $25 billion annually. >Much of the effort is concentrated on building its navy, which U.S. >officials say is likely to include modern aircraft carriers capable of >projecting Beijing's power throughout Asia. > >China has amassed more than $100 billion in foreign reserves and will >acquire $60 billion more when it takes control of Hong Kong in July. >U.S. advocates for more trade with the Reds justify their evil dealings >by claiming money from their trade will better the lives of China's >citizens, therefore helping to guarantee peace. But the money is not >going to the people, it is being used to fund a deadly arsenal and to >build an industrial base that will make the ambitions of China's ruling >Communist dictatorship independent of external constraints by the next >century. > >To fund their nationalist yearning to replace the United States as a >dominant power in Asia, the Reds have available literally billions of >dollars earned in lopsided trade deals with Western countries. For every >four dollars in Chinese products sold to the United States, only one >dollar's worth of U.S. goods are sold in China. > >According to the U.S. Commerce Department, China's fastest growing >sectors are aircraft and parts, electric power systems, computer >software, telecommunications equipment and automobile parts. Ironically, >U.S. corporate giants such as Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, IBM, Intel, >Microsoft, Motorola and General Motors are in China producing these >goods. But the profits are coming at a apocalyptic price. In building >their plants there and teaching the Chinese how to produce these >products, U.S. businesses are creating a dangerous potential competitor >for U.S. products and are undermining the industrial capabilities of the >United States. >Chinese produced goods can be found in every aspect of American life. In >March, Rep. James A. Traficant (D-OH) demanded that the Pentagon >investigate why a military base in his state distributed boots to Air >Force personnel that were made in China. > >As one observer pointed out, there is something fundamentally wrong in >America when even G.I. Joe, the all-American hero toy that is coveted by >millions of American boys, bears the inscription "Made in China" on his >dog tags. What is worse, however, is that the Reds are using profits >earned by selling toys like "G.I. Joe" to buy deadly missiles which are >aimed at U.S. bases. > >In February 1995, China took delivery of the first of four new patrol >submarines purchased from the Russians. Some analysts estimate China has >made arrangements to purchase about 20 more. >The U.S. Veteran Dispatch, in its February/March 1995 edition, published >an in-depth report regarding potential confrontation between the United >States and China over Vietnam and the oil-rich Spratly Islands. >The disputes are over an estimated $1trillion worth of oil and natural >gas resources buried beneath the Spratlys, a long string of rocky >outcrops--some one thousand islets and reefs, which straddle strategic >shipping lanes. The Spratlys are located about 250 miles east of Vietnam >in the South China Sea. > >The following U.S. Veteran Dispatch story reported in the January 1994 >issue and headlined: > >U.S Carrier, Chinese Sub, Squared Off --Beijing promises to shoot to >kill the next time underscores Red China's growing propensity for >confrontation: > >The American aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk and a Chinese nuclear submarine >squared off in international waters off China's coast Oct. 27-29, 1994, > >the Los Angeles Times reported in December. >According to the Times, shortly after the incident, which occurred in >the Yellow Sea, China served notice through a U.S. military official in >Beijing that the next time such a situation arises, China's orders will >be to shoot to kill. > >Although in the end no shots were fired, U.S. officials acknowledge the >confrontation was serious. The Navy's carrier battle group in the region >included not only the Kitty Hawk, but also three cruisers, one frigate, >one submarine, two logistics ships and an estimated 10,000 American >naval personnel. > >The incident began after the captain of the Kitty Hawk dispatched S-3 >anti-submarine warfare aircraft and dropped sonic devices designed to >track the nuclear sub. > >Apparently agitated, the Chinese military responded by scrambling jet >fighters which flew within sight of the American planes. > >Finally, after the Chinese submarine withdrew to its base at the Chinese >naval port of Qingdao, thenaval port of Qingdao, the U.S. aircraft >carrier wa > >The confrontations highlight some of the gunboat diplomacy involving the >United States, China and North Korea that surrounded the U.S.-North >Korean nuclear agreement reached Oct. 17, 1994. >In the South China Sea, another dispute has been brewing which could >potentially involve the U.S. and China in other military confrontations, >this time over ownership and control of the little known, but >potentially oil-rich Spratly Islands. > >At present, the confrontations are confined to China, Vietnam, Taiwan >and the Philippines, but American oil men eager to compete for oil >drilling rights in what is considered one of the most rich oil and >natural gas fields yet to be exploited in the world may draw the United >States into the dispute. > >In 1988, after Hanoi officially announced it owned the Spratlys, Chinese >naval vessels sunk three Vietnamese gunboats in the Spratlys and openly >threatened to take further action against the Vietnamese if they >continued to contest Chinese claims to the Spratly Island chain. > >China warned Vietnam in January 1993 to either resolve the question of >ownership of the Spratly Islands by "peaceful means" or China would, in >1997, take over all the Spratly Islands by military means. >China then deployed dozens of its naval vessels, including three >Soviet-built Romeo-class attack submarines, in and around the Spratly >Islands, vowing to defend the oil exploration and drilling operations of >Crestone Oil, a Denver, Colorado-based oil company which the Chinese >granted exclusive rights to in 1992. > >Vietnam, in turn, granted other U.S. oil companies, including such >giants as Mobil and Exxon, rights to drill in the same Spratly fields >claimed by China. While U.S. businessmen were pushing U.S. politicians >to declare the United States POW/MIA problem with Hanoi solved and >normalize relations, China was busy, and unreported, building a massive >military presence encircling Vietnam and the oil and natural gas-rich >offshore waters. > >Within an hour flight time from the east coast of Vietnam at Zhanjiang, >China has built facilities for basing aircraft capable of refueling, in >the air, modern jet bombers extending their range hundreds of miles >south to the Spratly Islands. > >South of Zhanjiang, 300 miles east of Vietnam, the Chinese constructed a >massive airstrip and warship docks on Woody Island, which is part of the >Parcel Island chain they seized decades ago from Vietnam. >In the Bay of Bengal, west of Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand, China has >established key military positions, including an electronics monitoring >station and has access to a naval base it built for Burma on Hanggyl >Island. > <snip>
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