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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: China: Red Tide Rising
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>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.
>
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