Springtime for chi
Ledeen, Michael
Springtime for Chi by Michael A. Ledeen In keeping with the spirit of appeasement that characterizes Bill Clinton's dealings with the world's leading tyrants, the United States is currently...
...A rumored meeting with President Clinton is unconfirmed at this writing, but a formal White House reception is hardly necessary to prove the obvious: Clinton is embracing the Chinese...
...Chi knows all about these developments, for he is in the forefront of the crash program to modernize China's armed forces...
...Previously, this technology was unavailable even to some of our NATO allies because of its sensitivity...
...His long career—he signed up to fight the Japanese in 1944, at the age of 15—is a textbook study of advancement in a Communist regime...
...And just as we opened the floodgates of American technology to the Soviets, thereby enabling them to achieve a quantum leap in military power that required a massive Western buildup to contain, so today we are selling China some of our most sensitive technology, and at bargain-basement prices...
...On the eve of his visit, the New York Times ran a soothing account of the Chinese military's lack of modern technology, as if to reassure us that we have nothing to fear from such old-fashioned forces...
...Chi's infamy was most dramatically earned in 1989, when he commanded the bloody repression of China's short-lived democracy movement in Tiananmen Square...
...We have recently permitted the PRC to obtain the technology to manufacture its own Global Positioning System, which is the key to the most accurate targeting systems for cruise missiles and other advanced weapons...
...As Arnold Beichman of the Hoover Institution sadly remarked, it brings back memories of Christopher's mentor, Cyrus Vance, who once gushed that Soviet dictator Leonid Brezhnev "shares our dreams and aspirations...
...As always when tyrants are appeased, annoying truths have to be ignored, and the unpleasant facts about Gen...
...it was reinforced last March on the occasion of the democratic elections in Taiwan, when he mobilized the PRC's armed forces and ordered cruise missiles launched through the China Straits...
...We have permitted the Chinese to buy technology used to build "stealth" aircraft, and we are permitting them to buy, at auction, entire defense factories, until very recently used to manufacture state-of-the-art military components, from advanced lasers to exotic missile skins...
...The final fillip came from outgoing secretary of state Warren Christopher...
...Not to worry: if the Clinton administration continues its current campaign, that happy state of affairs will soon change, and we will have to reckon with the world's largest nation, armed with the best weapons the United States can provide, under the command of the brutal man now showered with the kind of honor and largesse that should be reserved for our best friends and reliable allies...
...Speaking in Shanghai in late November, he invoked our "common hopes and interests...
...Springtime for Chi by Michael A. Ledeen In keeping with the spirit of appeasement that characterizes Bill Clinton's dealings with the world's leading tyrants, the United States is currently hosting the murderous defense minister of the People's Republic of China, Gen...
...hegemonists...
...Chi demonstrated both military valor (he earned medals fighting us Americans in the Korean War) and political opportunism (he quickly enlisted in the horrors of the Cultural Revolution, then rapidly switched sides to participate in the arrest of the "Gang of Four" in 1976...
...Chi have conveniently dropped out of the official (unclassified) CIA biography, dated October 28 of this year...
...Chi Haotian...
...As Stephen Bryen, former director of the Defense Technology Security Agency, revealed in congressional testimony earlier this year, we have changed the rules to permit the Chinese to buy "hot section technology" for jet engines, which will enable them to vastly improve their attack helicopters and fighter aircraft...
...Just as we bestowed superpower status on the aggressively militarizing Soviet Union in the 1970s, so we elevate the People's Republic today...
...There is no word about the massacre of the democrats in Tiananmen, no mention of the bullying of democratic Taiwan...
...He has always rallied to the side of terror and has been unstinting in his condemnation of "the U.S...
...Chi's visit is the first in an announced series of meetings and summits—culminating in China trips by Gore and Clinton and a Washington visit from Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin— that recalls the worst moments of detente...
...Michael A. Ledeen holds the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute and is the author of Freedom Betrayed...
...But in the era of super-detente, nothing is too good for the People's Republic...
...This proven enemy of the values we hold dear is receiving full military honors from secretary of defense William Perry at the Pentagon, holding extensive meetings on Capitol Hill, visiting military bases and top-of-the-line industrial facilities, and addressing the troops at West Point...
...Gen...
Vol. 2 • December 1996 • No. 14
