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To: badon518 who wrote (5180)	6/1/2000 3:32:00 AM
From: Edwin S. Fujinaka	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6018

OT The PRC has already gotten their money's worth from Clinton. Loral and Hughes have helped the PRC develop their missile technology. The PRC has probably even gotten help with nuclear matters. Clinton is trying to pin the blame on Wen Ho Lee (the former Los Alamos Scientist) as a cover, but they won't be able to make it stick. Lee serves a couple of purposes: the first is as the scapegoat in case it is proven that the PRC has obtained some nuclear technology and the second to show that Clinton is tough on the Chinese. Like the travel office case, the Clinton's have no concerns about falsely harming innocent parties as a cover for their own malfeasance. Clinton does not even mind killing innocent civilians in a raid he initiated that resulted in the bombing of a pharmaceutical factory. It appears that the raid was just to get his own legal problems off the front page. Enough already! Sorry for rambling on <G>.

To: badon518 who wrote (5180)	6/1/2000 10:04:00 AM
From: manohar kanuri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6018

OT If I may add my .02 to your observations: A couple of decades ago the foreign policy establishment subsumed a dichotomy between the national security mandarins and business lobbies; with the mandarins routinely having the final word when the two interests diverged. No matter what the party affiliation of the Oval Office incumbent (or the composition of Congress), post-Gorbachev the equilibrium has consistently been derived from commercial interests alone; the elevation of economic interests to an overarching national security concern only serving to make the task of appealing to national greed (as opposed to pandering to national paranoia) that much simpler. In the early/mid-90s, I remember reading a particularly telling (by hindsight) commentary on China and the emergence of the Chinese sense of self (confident, assertive) in the international arena. I don't recall now who was being quoted but it was a line from a poem called "China" that defined then and, imo, continues to describe now and for the next few years, Sino-US relations: "We live on the third world from the sun. Number three. Nobody tells us what to do." Of course, the times, they change, and now they're number two.