Mary, suffice it to say that we disagree. Transfer of nuclear design information is nothing to be sneezed at - without being overly dramatic about it, to protect such information, the use of lethal force is authorized.
Whether or not you are one of the many who seem to think Clinton is a "naughty little boy" (but he's so cute!), it is too obvious to overlook that he chose to ignore (at best) or facilitate (at worst) the transfer of super classified information to a hostile foreign power. No matter how you slice it, that is treason. The fact that Reno's DoJ approved every wiretap request by the FBI EXCEPT the one inside a secure national defense workplace to investigate Chinese espionage (coincidentally concurrent with the Chinese campaign donations), is prima facia evidence of complicity by this administration.
We won one Cold War, and were lucky that it broke the back of the USSR before it broke us. The "Clown In Control" today is leading us into another Cold War, years ahead of time. Considering the cultural and philosophical differences between us and China, this Cold War may well be much more serious and antagonistic than with the Soviets (hard as that may be to imagine).
The Cox Report I believe should serve the purpose to insure that our tax supported research is taken seriously and protected from theft. We are not a Mickey Mouse country.
Mary, you make it sound as if the PRC had managed to obtain the recipe for Fritos. This is not just "tax supported research," like how to grow more corn and fewer weeds. We are talking about information that can lead to the destruction of civilization. At the least, the absolute, very least, China having this nuclear design information is an immediate and direct threat to two democracies, S. Korea and Tiawan. I hope you will take enough time to review China's history of hegemony and foreign policy strategies to see how they try to expand their sphere of influence. If it doesn't scare you, you don't understand the situation.
While you wring your hands and fret about the niceties of non-PC talk about the Chinese, and the possibility of (horrors!) nationalistic feelings in the US, the possibility is growing that we can all have our butts blown away in a real, no-kidding war.
I can go on, but I would probably be wasting my time -- you seem to have as firm an opinion about this as I do. I'd like to see more trade with China too, but not if it means that our President continues to grovel in their presence, and prostrate this nation before yielding a few dollars worth of trade. I'm old enough to have seen some real foreign policy blunders by this country, but never before have I been as ashamed of our national government as I am now.
If you think your investments in China are worth the degradation of America, and your gain from those investments is an even exchange for the renewal of the Cold War, then we really have nothing more to discuss. We simply disagree.
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