[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 17881-17888]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             MADE IN CHINA

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Himes). Under the Speaker's announced

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policy of January 6, 2009, the gentleman from California (Mr. 
Rohrabacher) is recognized for 60 minutes
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, today I would like to address my 
colleagues about the greatest threat over the horizon, ``Made in 
China.''
  Mr. Speaker, while focused on the deadly threat posed to our 
immediate safety by the forces of radical Islam, many Americans seem 
oblivious to the storm clouds just over the horizon.
  I come to the floor with a grave warning to the American people. We 
face a threat to our national security with complexity and global scope 
such as we have never experienced in this Nation's history. This threat 
is pervasive. It challenges our economic, political, and financial 
structure, as well as the security of our homeland.
  I have come to the floor to plead: We can no longer look at the 
dynamic shift in power that is taking place and console ourselves with 
wishful thinking. We must quit fooling ourselves that there are 
offsetting elements at play, that the glass can be viewed as half full 
or half empty. It is clear that a powerful adversary is unabashedly out 
to grab that glass and drain it, consume it at the expense of the 
American people, and leave Americans of the future in thirst of the 
prosperity and security which we now take for granted.
  And it is not only our children's future at stake. What we do as a 
people, as was the case of Americans before us, will determine which 
diametrically opposed system of governance--freedom or tyranny--will 
shape the world and human events for generations to come.
  Today, radical Islam can be, must be, and will be thwarted. Yes, it 
is a threat that is now upon us. Radical Islamists, however, are not 
only butchering Christians and Jews, but a multitude of Muslims as 
well. And yes, forces of modernity within the Muslim world who are 
themselves threatened with extermination will help us defeat this evil 
plague of radical Islam.
  Today, if we remain vigilant and if we remain engaged, we can be 
confident of this outcome. Yet, as I say, a greater threat is just over 
the horizon. I am referring to China, a dragon of immense power and 
insatiable appetite. This challenge will far outshadow the current 
battle with radical Islam.
  China is already engaged, already manipulating, already doing damage, 
already making serious moves to catapult itself into a position of 
preeminent power on the Earth. To them, that would simply be moving the 
center of the Earth back to China where it once was and rightfully 
should be, from their ethnocentric perception.
  Right off, let me assert my intention is not to be a China basher. 
Surprise, surprise, because I am not a China basher.
  China is not the regime that controls that territory, but the people 
who reside there. They are a people with a magnificent history and 
culture. Today, over 1 billion Chinese men, women, and children survive 
in abject poverty. They are in servitude to a small clique, a small, 
heavy-handed clique, a cadre. Yes. You might say a band of cronies 
which represents only about 2 percent of the Chinese population. That 
clique is kept in power by the brutality of their hacks and thugs and 
the deployment of technology which all too often can be traced back to 
Western benefactors. With modern Western-developed technologies, they 
have created a high-tech police state that mirrors the imagination of 
George Orwell in his prescient novel, ``1984.''
  The Chinese regime that holds power in Beijing is a hostile force to 
the freedom of its own people and a threat to us. The hardworking, 
long-suffering, yet dignified and proud people of China, they are our 
allies in waiting. Our sympathy and loyalty should focus on them, the 
Chinese people. Their greatest hope is our greatest hope, that they 
will some day demand and win their own freedom and thus shift China 
into the family of free nations and free people. This should not only 
be their goal, but our goal as well.
  But for now, the aggressively authoritarian and murderous regime in 
Beijing holds power with an iron fist at home and makes alliances with 
gangsters and tyrants the world around. The growing power of China is 
obvious in the confidence and bullishness of its antidemocratic regime, 
in its leverage as a formidable economic competitor, and its expanding 
military force.

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  All of this has been steadily assisted by our own government and by 
the elite captains of America's finance industry.
  These American tycoons still plot, scheme, and invest to make a quick 
buck by exploiting a massive cheap labor pool and a mega market in 
China.
  It is the same dream of a century and a half ago, when ambitious 
Western businessmen dreamed of ``lighting the lamps of China'' and 
making a fortune doing it. Only now, the fortune is being made by 
America's elite, but it is not benefiting our country. It is being done 
at the expense of the American people.
  The Chinese regime as of late has been masterful at manipulating the 
greed and avarice of Western businessmen, even as China itself 
continues to undermine international financial markets and hammers many 
of those Western corporations which have already set up there in China.
  Beijing maintains a massive pool of near-slave labor to even attract 
more foreign capital and manufacturing know-how. This is at the same 
time that they undervalue their own currency to secure the dominance of 
their exports, even as they enforce the restrictions they have placed 
entry into their market.
  This is not just symptomatic of a nation with gusto to get ahead. 
They are destroying the economic potential of their future competitors. 
So much more sophisticated than Mao, the Chinese oligarchs of today 
look and speak Western. They mean to eclipse our country and, yes, 
extinguish our ideals of democracy and individual freedom, even as the 
West stumbles in its retreat before this aggressive and autocratic 
global force.
  Wake up, America. We are not only losing jobs to an ever more 
powerful China, but we are in the process of losing our security, our 
prosperity, and, yes, our freedom. We are losing more than jobs. We are 
losing our future. Wake up, America.
  If eventually the United States and our great democratic experiment 
is defeated through the avarice and shortsightedness of grasping 
corporations and their bought-and-paid-for political hacks, who will be 
able to light the lamps of freedom, not only in China, but around the 
world?
  There is no shortage of power-mongers who would cast the world into 
darkness and deprivation and fear. As evil expands America is, as it 
has always been, the only hope for a better world, the only hope for 
the world's oppressed, the only hope for stability and peace.
  Six decades ago, Japanese militarists understood the role of America. 
That is why they attacked us at Pearl Harbor, so they could push us out 
of the picture and they could then dominate the Asia Pacific region 
with a greater sphere of co-prosperity and, of course, a brutally 
enforced stability.
  The Chinese strategists now see us in the same light as the Japanese 
planners did before World War II. The Japanese, however, only intended 
to dominate a large chunk of the Pacific region. Today, China's rulers 
seek domination not just of the Asian Pacific region, but of the world. 
They are positioning themselves to do just that.
  And what has been America's counterstrategy? Apparently, to establish 
economic ties that will build China's economy, thinking that with 
prosperity will come a new hospitable and benevolent attitude among the 
Chinese hierarchy.
  So our country club class of American businessmen have built China 
into an economic giant and, yes, a global power. And, of course, these 
captains of American industry have made big bucks for themselves, 
personally, as part of this effort in building China.
  America's corporate elite has not seemed to notice the obvious 
downside for their fellow Americans in sending jobs, capital, and 
technology to China. Maybe the brutal consequences on the rest of the 
American family of free people was obscured by the worst kind of

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wishful thinking. Elite think tanks, coffers filled by corporate 
giants, I might add these intellectual think tanks, intellectually 
claimed and have claimed that if you hug a dragon, it won't eat you. 
Well, the subsidized academics assured us, if we treat it nicely, it 
will become a warm and peaceful dragon. Well, look again. It has been 
decades of coddling, and it is still a dragon. It is bigger and 
stronger and still hungry.
  The frightening result of our folly and betrayal of American working 
people is becoming evident. In the month of February 2010 alone, the 
trade deficit with China was a staggering $16.5 billion. In 1984, just 
25 years ago, the U.S. had a trade surplus with China. Our annual trade 
imbalance with China is now $227 billion and rising. Our lamp is going 
out.
  China holds the largest amount of American bonds than any nation and 
holds the highest percentage of our debt, and has repeatedly threatened 
to quietly dump those bonds and devastate our national economy if we 
don't comply with its wishes.
  What is their goal?
  First, of course, it is to maintain their unfair trade advantage 
built on near-slave labor, environmental desolation, devalued currency, 
and a heavily restricted access to their market, while enjoying access 
to our market and a continual flow of U.S. investment and technology 
and know-how into their country. Yet, now if we move to correct the 
imbalance by seeking equality and fairness in our trade policies, there 
will be a heavy price for us to pay. So we just let a bad situation 
continue to slide, even as our economy, our power, and our influence 
slide into an abyss.
  The dragon may not be a Marxist red dragon, but it is still a dragon, 
dangerous as hell, and will not be deterred by appeasement or 
cowardice. Economic vulnerability is only half of the story.
  On a parallel track, financed by their profits from this one-way free 
trade imbalance that they have enjoyed, China is engaged in an 
unprecedented military build-up. Communist China's military forces, 
which include nuclear, cyber, and space-based and conventional and 
terrorist components are on the rise, as our defenses are wearing thin 
and exhausted. In the past, we have always been able to rely on our 
technological superiority, ``in the past'' being the operative words in 
the sentence I just used. Yes, in the past we could rely on our 
technological superiority.
  Today, new China laws demand that Western companies, who are now 
operating in China and wish to, give up technological secrets that can 
be used for economic and military advantage. Our greatest asset to the 
future is being given away in exchange for a piece of China's market 
today.
  When we had the leverage, our financial and business elites were only 
looking to short-term profits and benefits for themselves, not for 
their country. This short-term approach ended up much shorter than 
expected. The other side now has the leverage, and they are making the 
best of it. Surprise, surprise. The Chinese elite is a murderous 
dragon. And, yes, they are still a dragon, and they still intend to eat 
our lunch. Tomorrow they will eat us.
  For decades, American capitalists have rushed to China with stars in 
their eyes and quick and easy profits on their minds, but it has been a 
deal with the devil, figuratively and literally. American corporations 
are not acting as Americans. They have been acting as greedy cowards, 
reflecting the worst of human aspirations, not the best.
  We Americans pride ourselves at being committed to noble, higher 
ideals. We are not just a grasping horde seeking self-enrichment. We do 
believe in treating people decently, and we do believe in people's 
individual rights given to them by God. Well, we think of ourselves 
that way.
  And then we hear that Google and other American companies have 
enabled the communist Chinese dictatorship to track down dissidents, 
who are then jailed for daring to oppose tyranny and corruption or to 
worship God as they see fit.
  Once compromised, companies like Google found themselves curtailing 
the free flow of information to millions of Chinese citizens, turning 
the Internet into a tool for repression rather than a facilitator for 
free expression, and, thus, a vehicle for the advancement of the human 
condition.
  To Google's credit, uncomfortable with the role that it was being 
forced to play, Google decided not to go along with the heavy handed 
plan that the Chinese regime expected them to play and to implement.

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  At great risk to their company, Google's executives refused to go 
along and took a stand against repression. Yes, kudos to Google for 
that.
  Conversely, shame on the rest of the high-tech entourage who 
collaborated and were even used to advance tyrannical corruption. 
Google was not backed up, for example, by Microsoft or Yahoo Internet 
providers. Now China is preferring to intensify draconian laws 
requiring telecommunications and Internet companies to inform on 
customers who discuss state secrets. That term, ``state secrets,'' can 
be defined as anything from negative economic statistics to information 
on environmental calamities or references to Tibet, Taiwan, the Falun 
Gong, Uyghurs or anything else that would anger the dragon. The Chinese 
regime obviously understands its control of technology is a way to 
control the future.
  Yes, the future. Beijing's focus on space as well as electronic 
communications says it all. Remember, space-based assets--satellite 
systems--are a central component of global and national communication, 
with enormous implications to our own national security as well as our 
own prosperity. The power of commerce and political change will be 
determined by the control of these systems, and the freedom to use 
these systems will have an impact on the future of the country and the 
world.
  What happens in space will determine what happens on the ground. With 
that in mind, the Obama administration's decision to go along with our 
domestic, high-tech corporate giants and again permit American 
satellites to be launched from Chinese rockets is a cataclysmic 
betrayal of America's security, and it undermines both the future of 
our aerospace industry and undermines freedom on this planet.
  Fifteen years ago, during the Clinton years, a similar decision was 
made to permit U.S. satellites to be launched on Chinese rockets. We 
were assured by the Clinton administration that no technology would be 
transferred. I bought into that for a short time, then it became 
abundantly evident that this was a technological windfall for the 
Chinese regime, that President Clinton had not, as promised, secured 
that our technology would not be transferred. And when it became clear 
after the Clinton administration had made that commitment to us that 
there would be no transfer of technology, and when it became clear that 
this effort at cooperation was a colossal mistake and that technology 
was being transferred, no moves were made to limit the damage or shut 
it down.
  Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that Bernard Schwartz's 
contributions had some impact on President Clinton's reelection bid, 
meaning Bernie Schwartz was the CEO of Loral Corporation, a company 
heavily complicit in the illegal transfer of missile technology to 
China. He was also the biggest single contributor to President Bill 
Clinton's reelection campaign. Of course, he was not the only 
contributor to have a stake in this policy of sending missile 
technology to China. Other contributors to the Clinton campaign were 
traced and found to be leaders of the PLA, that's the People's 
Liberation Army missile program, which of course had a different name 
on their company and a different veneer, the veneer of a private sector 
and commercial company, but really it was a control company by the 
People's Liberation Army.
  I was personally involved in uncovering the initial evidence that 
exposed this crime, a crime that made our country vulnerable to 
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were built with technology that had been developed right here, but the 
missiles were now aimed at us by a hostile power. A full scale 
investigation ensued. Christopher Cox led a bipartisan task force which 
unanimously declared our security had been compromised. Before Congress 
could finally put the cork in the bottle, clearly invaluable rocket 
secrets were in the possession of this monstrously antidemocratic 
dragon regime. The world's worst human abuser now had America's utmost 
missile technology secrets.
  Unlike the last time around, thanks to the help of their American 
corporate benefactors, now the Chinese rockets are built further along 
than they were back in those days 15 years ago. Right now the Chinese 
have rockets, thanks to our help, that are much more competitive with 
our own systems. Before we stepped in to help, their rocket launchers 
more often than not turned into fiery failures. And even if successful, 
Chinese rockets of 15 years ago only carried one payload per launch. 
Now with our gift of technology--that I might add cost the American 
people, the American taxpayers, billions of dollars to develop--Chinese 
rockets are now reliable and capable of launching multiple payloads, be 
they satellites or warheads. It's called MIRVing, our gift to the 
Chinese. No wonder they have no respect for us. No wonder they are 
becoming aggressive. They think we're stupid. They think we're cowards, 
trying to buy peace with gifts to our enemies.
  What else would we expect such tough guys who are in power in Beijing 
to think? Should they think, oh, how nice it is that the Americans are 
so willing to give us this power? We should be grateful, and we should 
be their friends because they are being so nice to us in giving us this 
technology that can be used for rockets and other high-tech weapons 
systems.
  Well the town of Jiuquan is in the high desert of China's occupied 
regime of East Turkistan. Located there is China's main space launch 
center. That is where its Long March rockets and commercial space and 
nuclear-capable ballistic rockets take off from. At the entrance to 
this complex at this Chinese launch area is a billboard written half in 
English intended for the world to see. The statement of the Chinese 
warlords of this Uyghur province, I might add, says, ``Without haste. 
Without fear. We will conquer the world.''
  And, yes, America's policies and the collaborations of our 
corporations are helping them do just that. Instead of facing the 
reality of the even more powerful and increasingly hungry dragon that 
is right in front of our face, interest groups and power players in our 
country keep raising the question about what's happening with China? 
Are we making China into our enemy?
  Yes, so many Americans just love to blame ourselves every time such 
confrontation with tyranny occurs. During his recent trip to Asia, I 
half expected to hear that our President had actually bowed down to 
Chinese despots and apologized for the Opium Wars of 150 years ago. Now 
of course he didn't do that, but that is the attitude you can see 
reflected in people who are blaming us for any belligerency that's on 
the part of the Chinese, or any other enemy of the United States, I 
might add. This self-flagellation is of course much safer than blaming 
an increasingly strained relationship on the obvious badness and evil 
that is going on among the other guys. The obvious tyrants who murder 
their own people, the people who happen to be the world's worst human 
rights abuser. Now, maybe it's their fault, but if we blame them for it 
rather than blame ourselves for the current escalation of hostility 
that is now evident with the Chinese, we would have to deal with the 
threat. We have to deal with them. And that would be scary.
  So instead, so many Americans end up blaming ourselves or apologizing 
for past errors that America may have committed or may not have 
committed. So the answer to our question, is the Chinese regime getting 
more belligerent, the answer is emphatically, yes, it is getting more 
belligerent. Is it our fault? No. The attitude of those who rule 
Beijing is the manifestation of an increasing lust for power and the 
hubris of the clique that controls the world's most populous country 
with an iron fist. That is what you would expect from such tyrants. 
That is why our policy should not be aimed at building their strength 
militarily, economically, or any other way.

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  Of course, the essence of what's going on has not gone unnoticed by 
our friends and foes overseas. The perception of American weakness, 
even decline, eat away at the resolve of our friends and allies even as 
it contributes to Beijing's cockiness. And let's admit, we are 
considerably weaker than we ever thought we would be. We have been bled 
and drained by needlessly expensive small-scale wars around the world 
as well as a benevolence that has us bankrolling the United Nations and 
shoving foreign aid out our door even as we borrow money from China.
  One example of this is seen in America's good-hearted participation 
in a global fund designed to provide the world's poorest countries 
support in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other 
insidious diseases, which kill millions of people a year. Over the 8 
years of the fund's history, the United States has willingly 
contributed $4.3 billion--that's more than 28 percent of all the 
contributions to this benevolent fund--and we should be proud that we 
are a generous people, even if we can't afford it. Whether we can 
continue to be so generous as our level of deficit spending threatens 
to collapse our economy, now that's another question.
  But most significant, because of an anomaly in the funding formula, 
China has been one of the largest recipients of this fund. Over the 
last 8 years, China has been the recipient of almost $1 billion in 
grants. Conversely, over that same period China has only contributed 
$16 million to the fund. That's the fund we've given $4 billion to. I 
can't come up with one reason of why the American taxpayer should be 
underwriting the cost of China's public health system. The whole thing 
is a travesty.
  Malaria, for example, is a minor problem in China, killing about 38 
individuals a year. On the other hand, malaria is a massive problem in 
the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing over 25,000 people last 
year. Yet in this international fund, China was awarded $149 million to 
combat malaria and only $122 million went to the Congo. That's $4 
million for each case of a malaria death in China while the Congo 
received $5,000 per person that had died.
  This issue needs to be addressed, but nobody of course has the guts 
to address it because China is getting about a billion dollars' worth 
of benefits, paying a pittance, while the United States pays $4 billion 
into this fund. What we've been doing in this case is borrowing from 
China to donate to a fund that gives back to China. Over the years, we 
then end up paying interest on the debt that's been incurred by this 
very transaction.
  Now, this is the kind of ongoing indefensible transfer of wealth from 
our country to China that we have faced, and we've acquiesced with 
this. We've put up with it for years. It's got to stop. The burdens of 
drawn-out commitments that we've had all over the world and the 
irrational benevolence--you can read that ``giveaways''--makes our 
Nation poorer. We're talking about it's diminishing our ability here at 
home to meet our needs, the needs of our own people, and to watch out 
for our own security because wealth is being transferred out of our 
country by policies that we've gone along with. We are now vulnerable 
after all of this to an unrestricted political, economic, and military 
threat by a major power like China.
  So China is encouraging those who would tie us down and drain our 
energy. This is part of their effort. They have been helping those 
people who have been trying to tie us down and to drain our energies 
and revenues and our resources. This is part of their effort to disable 
us by sapping our willpower, our resolve, and our resources. And as we 
become weaker, China's unquenchable thirst for natural resources such 
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minerals that are necessary for modern manufacturing, this has spurred 
China to become the ally, supplier, protected, and puppet master of 
rogue regimes on a global scale.
  And the Chinese planetary offensive is evident in countries like 
North Korea, Burma, Cambodia, Iran, and across Africa, like Sudan and 
Zimbabwe. Not only are their people being repressed by regimes that are 
tyrannical but these are regimes that have allied themselves with 
Beijing, which is becoming the leading--it is already the world's worst 
human rights abuser and it is the creator of alliances with dictators 
throughout the world.
  It's hard to miss that when China establishes an alliance with these 
countries what its intention is. We need to look no further than to 
show that China has an alliance and is providing arms with the anti-
American blowhard in our hemisphere, the would-be caudillo of Latin 
American, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. So it's evident elsewhere. Wherever 
trouble and turmoil threaten U.S. interests, we can find that China has 
a hand in this.
  Nuclear weapons and missiles technology were slipped to Iran by China 
via North Korea and Pakistan, and they have added a dangerous 
instability to the Middle East. In light of this, there should be no 
mystery as to why China in the United Nations and in other 
international forums has opposed stronger and enforceable sanctions 
against Iran and North Korea.
  North Korea's sinking of a South Korean naval patrol ship not that 
long ago, there was a loss of 46 South Korean sailors, and it was 
publicly treated as a nonevent by Beijing, although it's right there in 
its backyard. In fact, North Korea's eccentric dictator, who probably 
could not be in power without Chinese support, was given an official 
heroes' welcome in China just days after it sunk a South Korean ship, 
which cost the lives of 46 South Korean sailors.
  More recently, China has bullied Japan over the control and 
sovereignty of islands that are not even close to its shores. While it 
was doing the bullying of Japan, our great ally, the United States was 
warned by China to butt out and stay away from those islands. 
``Aggressive'' and ``belligerent'' are words that come to mind when 
you're trying to analyze what's the nature of the Chinese regime in 
these situations.
  And then there is, of course, Pakistan with its ``Islamic bomb.'' 
Never forget the Pakistanis are in a strategic partnership with China 
even while we give them billions of dollars to bolster Pakistan's 
terminally ill economy. The Chinese gave Pakistan critical nuclear 
weapons technology. This is insanity. We are borrowing more from China 
to give to Pakistan, which is an ally of China, even as Pakistan builds 
its Islamic bomb with the help of China and continues to help the 
Taliban, who are at this moment killing U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
  Wake up, America. We can't continue with this kind of insanity.
  The opening by Iran of a new missile production plant in March of 
2010 enabled Iran to quickly expand its supply of NASR anti-ship 
missiles. Yep, it was another China deal. Not long after that, a 
Hezbollah-Iranian cruise missile knocked out an Israeli ship. Aha. Yes, 
another gift from China. And what is the response of the Obama 
administration to all these transfers of lethal weapons of mass 
destruction by China to rogue nations? Well, there have been no 
penalties imposed, even on the state-owned Chinese companies that are 
conducting these weapons transfers. Even worse, Washington is again 
considering letting Chinese rockets launch U.S. satellites. I guess 
they need to upgrade their system so they can pass even more updated 
weapons on to their criminal buddies.
  China's increasingly aggressive and threatening foreign policy are 
matched at home by severe repression. Millions of religious believers 
in China are facing increased not decreased oppression. The abuse is 
indiscriminate, whether they are Christians, Tibetans, Buddhists, 
Muslims. The most savage treatment, of course, is dealt out to the 
Falun Gong members. Falun Gong are just yoga and meditation 
practitioners. They've been tortured, thrown into prison camps, slave 
labor camps. They have been murdered and their organs have been cut out 
and sold by the Chinese health industry to the highest bidders, many of 
whom are Americans. This is the most ghoulish of all repressions. And 
it continues with devastating intensity.

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  Then again, maybe all this evil is due to the fact that we Americans 
are just so belligerent to the Chinese.
  What?
  Yes, some people want to blame us, so let's reach out to the dragon, 
not with a clenched fist but with an open hand, with a positive 
attitude and, most of all, with kindness, not hostility, and with lots 
of investment money as well, of course, and with lots of technology and 
secrets.
  Give me a break. Wake up, America. This has got to stop.
  This nonsense has led to some of America's military's top commanders 
to misguidedly welcome China's military leaders to visit our own 
defense centers and our own international defense forums with our Asian 
Pacific allies and to permit Chinese military personnel to observe our 
military exercises. One can only guess that the strategy behind this 
outreach and inclusion is the idea that it will somehow charm the 
Chinese into thinking of us as their friends, not as their rivals. Hug 
a dragon and it won't be a dragon.
  Well, is it not evident that the very existence of our democracy is 
what intimidates and enrages the Chinese antidemocratic dictatorship as 
with all of these dictatorships in the past? It is certainly not a 
comparison of how many ships we have and airplanes we have as compared 
to theirs, which has brought on this animosity from Beijing. Beijing 
knows that the United States has no intention of attacking them. 
However, like the Japanese before World War II, they know that America 
is the only power with the courage and the ability to stand between 
them and their goal, which is one of total domination of a large 
segment of the world and a heavy-handed influence on the rest.
  Perhaps the worst aspect of this looming security crisis is that 
China's aggressive military modernization has been made possible by its 
rising trade surplus with the United States. We have unintentionally 
financed their economy and have built their economy at the expense of 
jobs and manufacturing at home, and they are using the residual profits 
from their economic transactions with us to build weapons, very good 
weapons--better weapons than we may have available to us in the future. 
Their intent is to back us off and to destroy us as a dynamic force in 
the world.
  In 1998, the People's Liberation Army's publishing company openly 
published a book that is publicly available, called ``Unrestricted 
Warfare.'' The strategist's guidelines in that book called for using 
economic destabilization, computer viruses, information deception, 
terrorism, and devastating modern military weapons, including 
biochemical and nuclear weapons.
  Among those things highlighted in this Chinese strategy book were two 
individuals--Osama bin Laden and George Soros. Bin Laden was cited 
because terror and guerilla groups historically are thought to have 
bled empires to the point that they could be defeated by a rival power. 
Soros was lionized because he had mastered the art of manipulating the 
currencies of countries around the world, from England to Malaysia to 
Thailand, thus dramatically weakening those countries.
  The People's Liberation authors in that book openly stated that, if 
individuals could accomplish such things, then China, as an emerging 
power with focused strategic weapons in cyber and deep space, could 
bring down and defeat a great power such as the United States.
  The greatest threat to America's future generations may well be the 
high-tech strategic and exotic weapons China will possess as a result 
of advances made in recent years. China's strategic economic position 
should also be noted with alarm. Global competition over scarce natural 
resources is intensifying. Armed with advanced

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weapons and flush with money earned from its American trade imbalance, 
Beijing has been allying with, buying off and bribing the gangster 
regimes of the underdeveloped nations of the world, and these same 
regimes, of course, control the rich energy and finite mineral 
resources in their countries.
  These are not the actions and maneuvers of a government that wants to 
be part of the world's trading system, that wants to be part of the 
Family of Nations. These are the actions and maneuvers of a tyrannical 
dictatorship that is striving to dominate the world in alliance with 
other dictatorships.
  Do you think that such people might sink so low as to bribe the 
decisionmakers at the World Trade Organization or at the United 
Nations?
  When you hear people say that we should solve these issues, that we 
must always go multilaterally and come at world peace via part of an 
international effort, just remember it takes American courage to stand 
up. If we try to go through the World Trade Organization or the United 
Nations, we are going to find out someday that the Chinese have bribed 
those people in the World Trade Organization and in the U.N. If they 
haven't done it already, they will do it in the future to protect their 
international acquisitions in Asia, Africa, and South America.
  China's People's Liberation Army is certainly a threat, but the Navy 
that it is building is also a threat because China is building a lethal 
surface ship and submarine flotilla. They are making outlandish claims 
now while at the same time building up their fleet for the right to 
control large ocean areas, like the entire South China Sea. Their naval 
forces are beginning to have routine patrols around the world's most 
vital sea lanes and communication and trade lanes.
  Indeed, between 1987 and 2009, while the U.S. submarine force was cut 
in half, China's Navy commissioned 31 new attack submarines. Their new 
model diesel subs are nearly undetectable by U.S. and allied naval 
forces, and they are deploying a new missile that can take out a U.S. 
aircraft carrier 900 miles away. Nevertheless, on February 19, 2009, 
The New York Times reported that U.S. Pacific Commander Admiral Keating 
offered the U.S. Navy to assist China in learning how to operate its 
own aircraft carriers. Boy, that's going to make the world safer. We're 
going to teach them how to run their aircraft carriers.
  Worth noting, a senior Chinese military officer proclaimed that once 
the Chinese get their aircraft carriers that the United States can 
claim Hawaii east, and China will take Hawaii west and the Indian 
Ocean. ``Then you will not need to patrol the western Pacific 
anymore,'' he said.
  How nice. This while we are reducing our own fleet. They are telling 
us to stay out of a certain area of the world and to stay out of it 
while they are bullying Japan over some islands in the middle of 
nowhere. Tomorrow, they are going to declare that they have the 
rightful domination of over half of the Pacific.
  Wake up, America. Don't just look to the ocean for the threat. Look 
up. Space, the high ground of any future conflict, will soon no longer 
be our domain, America's domain. It is already now no longer our 
domain, obviously. China is aggressively moving forward, yes, in the 
exploration of space but also in space-based and related weapons 
systems.
  In 2006, for example, the U.S. Department of Defense reported that 
China used a ground-based laser to blind certain U.S. satellites. In 
January 2007, the People's Liberation Army successfully used an 
antisatellite missile to intercept a weather satellite. They've blown 
their satellites out of orbit without any care for the fact that they 
left heavy debris that threatened all other space activity in that area 
of space.
  No need to complain, of course, because these guys aren't listening.
  China's supposed civilian space program has made spectacular gains. 
Much of it can be traced back to the tech transfer that happened during 
the Clinton administration, which has now been incorporated into 
China's rockets and its missiles.
  Again, if our aerospace is at risk, blame us. Don't blame them. We 
gave them the technology. But we can blame them for commissioning 
hundreds of spies who have penetrated U.S. defense companies and 
agencies to steal the blueprints and charts needed to enhance their 
weapons systems. They have a monstrous organized effort for attacking 
and stealing America's technological secrets by breaking into our 
computer systems. Yes, we can blame them for that, but we just keep 
inviting them to observe our military exercises and--oh, yes--teaching 
them how to use aircraft carriers.
  Today, almost every part of the western and central United States is 
under the potential threat of the increased capability of China's 
weapons systems. We have given them our secrets. By agreeing to a trade 
policy that has been unfair, uneven, and a drain on America's wealth 
and technology, we have provided them the resources to use this 
technology, to expand and to modernize their own military.

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  By agreeing to a trade policy that has been unfair, uneven, and a 
drain on America's wealth and technology we have provided them the 
resources to use this technology and to expand and modernize their own 
military.
  Such stupidity is nothing new. Before World War II, there was an 
effort by the Brits to invest in Hitler's Germany to build economic 
ties that would prevent conflict. Boy, did that work. And it wasn't 
just Britain's deal where they betrayed Czech security that convinced 
Hitler that the West was gutless. It was also British money invested in 
his country in the 1930s.
  We gave the Japanese scrap metal and oil even as they raped China. 
Eventually the Japanese mayhem in China was too much, even for American 
capitalists. Not enough, however, to discourage corporate interests 
from negotiating the sale of, for example, B-17 blueprints to Japan as 
late as 1940. They never consummated that deal because the attack on 
Pearl Harbor shortened those negotiations.
  Today, we're giving the Chinese our genius and the benefit of our R&D 
worth billions of dollars, and it's deja vu all over again. Foreign and 
U.S. satellite operators are maneuvering to loosen the security export 
controls on the launching of advanced communications satellite systems 
on PLA--that's People's Liberation Army--controlled rockets and then 
the companies that make those rockets. Oh, yes, China is offering 30 to 
50 percent below market price in order to attract those launches. I 
wonder why. They must just want to do us favor, or maybe they just 
remember the last time they made such agreements with American 
companies and ended up with billions of dollars of American technology 
that they now have to use against us. What a great deal.
  Our big companies make a couple of hundred billion dollars in profit 
by cooperating with the Chinese rather than launching with U.S. 
companies. Certain CEO's add a couple million dollar bonuses to 
themselves for providing short-term savings, and that savings comes 
from using Chinese rockets. The Chinese end up with access to defense-
related research and development that costs the taxpayers billions of 
dollars. The Chinese have new technologies to defeat us in the future. 
We have short-term profit and big bonuses for our CEO's in the present. 
What a deal. It's a raw deal for the American aerospace industry and 
for our children's safety, and it will put us in jeopardy by using our 
own technology to put us in jeopardy.
  Let me be clear. Letting the Chinese launch U.S. satellites is wrong. 
Such launches will put money in the pockets of the People's Liberation 
Army to facilitate their own aggressive space programs. It will help 
the People's Liberation Army perfect its missile technology, and it 
will strangle in the cradle the private launch companies that are now 
emerging in the United States, which will then leave us totally 
dependent on China for space transportation.
  To accomplish this nefarious goal, launching U.S. satellites on 
Chinese rockets, the U.S. law will have to be

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changed in order to accomplish that. One way for this to be 
accomplished is for the Obama administration, like the Clinton 
administration before, to sign a Presidential waiver of the Tiananmen 
Square human rights sanctions. Don't miss one crucial fact. The Chinese 
national space program apparatus is owned and controlled--it's not a 
private group like in the United States, like Boeing--it is controlled 
by the People's Liberation Army. Their profits go to the People's 
Liberation Army. The three main Chinese space entities are all under 
People's Liberation Army control. All three of these have been 
repeatedly sanctioned by the U.S. government for proliferation of 
missile technologies to countries including Iran and Pakistan.
  Wake up, America. They are planning to play us for suckers like they 
already have in the past. Well, they are trying to play us that way 
because we're acting that way. This shouldn't even be an issue except, 
of course, the Chinese have the best lobbyists in Washington, the best 
lobbyists money can buy, and they've also got the lobbyists from U.S. 
corporations who are working with them, doing their bidding. And even 
better, they can buy off the so-called think tanks.
  What we've got is money from these corporations doing business in 
China who are putting that money into think tanks, which then come and 
testify before Congress about different policies that would, of course, 
affect whether or not we make decisions like the one I'm talking about.
  And who's left out, of course? What we're talking about is the 
American worker who has been put permanently out of work and the 
American people who are now in jeopardy. So now the Chinese are using 
their excessive profit to buy influence here at the expense of the 
American people. Wake up, America.
  A critical event of the cold war was China's repositioning, which put 
them in friendly relations with the United States and against the 
Soviet Union. Later when I worked for President Reagan, it was hoped 
that direct communication and economic ties would result in a 
permanent, positive change that would better the lives and freedom of 
the Chinese people. Unlike his predecessors or those who came later, 
Reagan understood that peace would only be furthered if freedom was 
simultaneously expanded as we increased economic activity. Reagan made 
it clear as he visited China in 1985. I worked with him on those 
speeches. I actually know very well what the message was of the 
speeches that Reagan gave in China.
  If China continued to open up politically and to liberalize, America 
would keep its markets open and would be investing and trying to uplift 
the Chinese people.
  In 1989, the Tiananmen Square massacre of the Chinese democracy 
movement was the tipping point. President Reagan, who was committed to 
human rights and democracy, was no longer President. President Reagan's 
successors have not been so committed to human rights and democracy. 
The Chinese ruling clique paid no serious price for this brutal, 
monstrous atrocity against the democracy movement at Tiananmen Square. 
Neither President Bush nor Clinton did anything even as the Chinese 
Communist Party retrenched themselves in power with blood and steel and 
murder.
  And since Tiananmen Square, the repression in that country has gotten 
worse and worse and worse, not better, and we've continued acting like 
buddies. That's our offensive, our buddy offensive. Our policies have 
not been reformed. Our policies have not reformed the tyrannical system 
in China. In fact, we have expanded it because they have come to 
believe they can do anything to their own people, repression, build any 
kind of military threat, and we will still grant them economic policies 
that will enable the wealth to flow in their direction, even as it is 
unfair to our own people.
  China is a Frankenstein monster of our own making, a monster that now 
threatens the world peace, economics, and democratic evolution. One 
would think as this threat becomes ever more clear that there would be 
some change in our policy, but no, the insanity continues.
  Not long ago, there was a highly publicized visit to China by 
Secretary Hillary Clinton, who brought a legion of reporters with her 
to the Shanghai World Fair. Secretary Clinton proudly showed them an 
American exhibition hall built with $60 million in contributions from 
American corporations. How nice--the companies paid to build an 
exhibition hall. Unfortunately, it was so vapid and uninspiring without 
a hint of love of democracy and freedom that reflects the core values 
of the American people. No, the so-called charity's leader of that 
pavilion, who built that hall in Beijing, Frank Lavin, explained why 
there wasn't any reference to freedom or democracy, ``We're not trying 
to be provocative'' or ``insulting'' to the Chinese viewers, he said.
  What does all that say about us? What does it say about them? 
Secretary Clinton, being as uninspiring as she is, pointed out that the 
world's fair was introducing America to the world as a rising power, 
according to our Secretary of State. This world's fair is a coming out 
party also for China. Well, it is really of historical significance, 
she said. Yeah, it is of historical significance. It's basically saying 
that America doesn't care about freedom and democracy. China is coming 
out, that's right. A new style of 21st century tyranny is being created 
with Chinese characteristics that fuses the control mechanisms of 
Communism with corporate funding and high-tech savvy.
  The leadership of this potential juggernaut has global ambitions and 
is ruthless and persistent. We need to undo any optimistically generous 
policies that have been giving away our industrial base and 
transferring resources and power to China.

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  Most importantly, however, through our actions we must reaffirm to 
ourselves and to the world our commitment to the ideals that made this 
country strong and democratic, a role model for humanity, regardless of 
culture or language.
  Advocates of our current China policy promised peace and mutual 
prosperity and the expansion of freedom as China grew stronger. Yet the 
stronger China has become, the more repressive it has gotten. We 
thought we were creating a peaceful new member of the international 
community. But instead we've shifted power to a government that remains 
the world's worst human rights abuser, repressing its own people while 
building its military and making aggressive claims on boundaries and 
territorial waters that threaten its neighbors, as well as the flow of 
international commerce through long-established shipping lanes.
  Exchanges, like the World's Fair exhibits, were supposed to promote 
U.S. values. Investment in Chinese manufacturing was supposed to have 
led to liberalization of their society. Where are the reforms? Where 
are the benevolent liberals who were going to democratize China? You 
know where they are? They're in jail. They're in prison, or they've 
been murdered by the regime. They sit in cells right next to 
uncompromising religious leaders, believers, and the Falun Gong 
practitioners.
  Crackdowns on dissent, religious freedom, and free speech have 
escalated in Tibet; missiles facing Taiwan have grown to more than 
1,400 in the past few years; and the cyberdestabilization on a global 
scale is often traced back to the Chinese military facilities. These 
things should be alarm bells for all people who want peace and believe 
in freedom.
  This is an enemy who has no shame and, perhaps, as we show weakness, 
has no fear. It is an enemy that hates religion and sees freedom and 
human rights as an anarchistic evil that needs to be obliterated. This 
is the threat over the horizon, a dragon which has been made stronger, 
more aggressive, and more hungry as a result of misguided American 
policies. Those policies must be changed. We must have the resolve to 
meet this evermore and present challenge.
  China is not the only society that honors its ancestors and 
forefathers. We must respect the sacrifices and legacies for all those 
brave Americans

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who worked, struggled, fought, and often perished for our freedom, for 
liberty, for justice, for the rights of every person. These principles 
are what not only bind us together as a people but bond us with people 
of every land, especially those people in China and others who are 
oppressed by dictators, those people who long for freedom. It is their 
success in reforming and transforming their country, in throwing off 
their chains of oppression, and in doing so, they will free us from the 
threat of a powerful dragon country as they create a peaceful and a 
democratic and prosperous country with which we can trade and have 
equal and positive relations.
  If we have courage and stand tall, the next century will not be the 
century of China. It will be the century of free people, 
technologically united throughout the globe, united in respect for the 
rights of people everywhere and committed to respecting each other and 
the building of a more peaceful, prosperous, and free world.

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