Another followup....Having a foreign country like China endorse either candidate is BAD!
With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
Tuesday October 17, 2000; 12:54 PM EDT
Communist China Endorses Gore
The leadership of Communist China, which threatened to launch a
nuclear strike on the U.S. in 1996 and again this spring, has
come out strongly against the presidential candidacy of Texas
governor George Bush - a tacit endorsement of Vice President Al
Gore.
A commentary appearing Tuesday in the government-run
newsmagazine Beijing Review warned that Bush's China policies
"would produce grave results if he won the election and became
master of the White House." Beijing Review is published by the
State Council, the Chinese version of a presidential Cabinet.
The report, co-authored by a researcher from China's National
Defense University, said "war would be inevitable" if Bush tried
to intervene militarily in any attack by the People's Liberation
Army on Taiwan, a longtime U.S. ally.
Bush has in the past criticized the Clinton-Gore
administration's depiction of China as a "strategic partner,"
calling China an "adversary" instead. Particularly troublesome
for Beijing is Bush's pledge to deploy missile defense systems
that would protect Taiwan as well as the U.S. from any missile
attack.
In 1995 and 1996, Beijing lobbed unarmed nuclear capable
missiles across the Taiwan Straits, prompting the U.S. to
dispatch the 6th Fleet to the region. Defense officials later
told the Washington Post that tensions were much higher than the
administration publicly acknowledged at the time.
As the 6th Fleet steamed across the Pacific, longtime Clinton
friend Charlie Trie intervened on China's behalf, counseling the
president to avoid any further provocative action. Clinton
apparently took the advice.
Three years later Trie pleaded guilty to campaign finance
violations after several hundred thousand dollars he donated to
the Clinton Defense Fund and other Democratic causes was traced
to the Bank of China.
In 1996, Chinese military intelligence tried to recruit
Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung in a plot to funnel $300,000
to Clinton, Gore and the Democrats.
"We like your president, we want to see him re-elected," Chung
says Gen. Ji Shengde told him.
Gore's own political rise has been fueled by his longtime
association with Maria Hsia, who's been raising campaign cash
for the vice president since 1988 and who organized Gore's
notorious April 1996 Buddhist temple fund raiser. In May, Hsia
pleaded guilty to five felony counts related to the Buddhist
temple event.
In 1997, the FBI identified Hsia as a "Chinese agent" who was
"doing the bidding of Beijing," according to a Washington Post
report by Watergate sleuth Bob Woodward.
Details from the Beijing Review editorial were first reported by
ABC News.
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