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To: Thomas M. who wrote (774)3/31/2003 5:33:13 PM
From: Thomas M.Read Replies (1) of 1296
 
During the heat of fighting in 1966-7, the Soviet Union sold the U.S. over $2 million worth of magnesium - a metal vital in military aircraft production - when there was a shortage of it in the U.S. This occurred at a time when Washington maintained an embargo on supplying Communist nations with certain alloys of the same metal.

At about the same time, China sold several thousand tons of steel to the U.S. in South Vietnam for the construction of new Air and Army bases when no one else could meet the American military's urgent need: this, while the U.S. a boycott on all Chinese products. The sale of steel may have been only the tip of the iceberg of Chinese sales to the U.S. during the war.

In a visit to China in 1972, White House envoy Alexander Haig met with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai. Years later, Haig wrote: "Though he never stated the case in so many words, I reported to President Nixon that the import of what Chou said to me was: don't lose in Vietnam; don't withdraw from Southeast Asia."

Blum - Killing Hope - p131
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