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To: Rolla Coasta who wrote (679)	1/21/2001 1:58:10 AM
From: Rolla Coasta	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

fas.org INTRO: China has sentenced a senior official to death for taking bribes. If the sentence is upheld, Cheng Kejie will be the highest-level Chinese Communist Party official ever to be executed for corruption. VOA's Leta Hong Fincher has this report from Beijing. TEXT: China's state-run Xinhua news agency says the senior official, Cheng Kejie, has been sentenced to death for taking almost five million dollars in bribes. Mr. Cheng was the former Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of China's parliament, the National People's Congress. A Beijing court convicted him on Monday of accepting the bribes with his mistress, when he was chairman of the government of Guangxi province in southwest China, an area teeming with smuggling and drug activity. Mr. Cheng has 10 days to appeal the sentence, but the Xinhua news agency did not say if he would do so. China's Communist Party has been leading a campaign against corruption within its ranks for the last several years. Mr. Cheng is the highest level target since Beijing's top leader Chen Xitong was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 1998. The government hopes that prosecuting such powerful officials will send a message to its people that no one is above the law when it comes to corruption. Cheng Kejie headed the government of Guangxi from 1990 to 1998, when he left the region to take up his position in the National People's Congress. The Chinese government first revealed that Mr. Cheng was under investigation in March, when officials said he would not be taking part in the annual legislative session.(signed) NEB/HK/LHF/JO 31-Jul-2000 00:50 AM EDT (31-Jul-2000 0450 UTC) NNNN Source: Voice of America

To: Rolla Coasta who wrote (679)	1/21/2001 8:49:46 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

the paper said NATO targeted the embassy because it was rebroadcasting radio signals for the Yugoslav military (VJ). Oopss... Did we happen to catch the Chinese involved in a willful act of violating neutrality? Seems to me the Chinese government has some explaining to do to those who were killed as a result of their meddling and partisanship. "The embassy was struck as a rebro," Allen said, "not as a political target." In other words, once it was determined that the embassy was rebroadcasting signals, NATO selected it as a target without double-checking that it wasn’t also a politically sensitive target. Hmmm.... well Schitt happens... especially when our folks do a "RF/DF" on the source of yugoslav military radio traffic, triangulate the GPS coordinates, and then program those coordinates into a JDAMS guided bomb. Paul Beaver of Jane’s looks at the issue differently. The question is not whether NATO deliberately bombed the Embassy, but "did the Chinese government knowingly help the Belgrade authorities?" If you don't want to be hit, don't make yourself a target. Regards, Ron