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China Shows Contempt for U.S. Concerns Wes Vernon, NewsMax.comWASHINGTON – China expects the United States to drop its complaints about Beijing’s export of weapons technology to the "axis of evil.” A Chinese negotiator is scheduled to arrive next month to discuss arms control, and the Chinese regime is implicitly linking those talks to an expectation that the U.S. will drop its complaints. The Associated Press quotes an unnamed official of the Chinese Foreign Ministry as saying "the ball is in their court.” Although the official did not say arms control talks would not go forward, he did indicate failure of the U.S. to drop the subject could slow down the progress of such negotiations. The official said that a November 2000 agreement to tighten export controls does not apply to deals made before that pact was signed. The U.S. disagrees. The CIA has warned that Beijing planning is based on the assumption that the Chinese will be in a position to subject the U.S. to nuclear blackmail by 2015. That raises a question among national security experts as to whether arms control talks with China at this time are in America’s best interest. According to a transcript of a news briefing in Beijing during President Bush’s recent trip to China, his National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said that "China needs to have an export control law” and that "we continue to press the issue.” "Pressing the issue” apparently has not registered with the communist leaders in Beijing. They have said, in so many words, they are annoyed by U.S. complaints about their export shipments to Iraq, Iran and North Korea. And they want to hear no more on the matter. This contempt for U.S. concern that Chinese actions may endanger the lives of innocent Americans, or any innocent lives at all for that matter, has a long history. In a sense, President Bush must contend with his father’s and ex-President Bill Clinton’s chickens, which are coming home to roost. The book "Seeds of Fire” recalls that in 1989 when the first President Bush tried to protest the Tienanmen Square massacre, a Chinese leader refused to take his call. That pattern of contempt has held throughout U.S. relations with China in the post-Cold War era. The bloody killings at Tienanmen Square came after then-Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping swept documents off the table and walked around his office shouting that communist countries in Europe and Russia itself had "paid a disastrous price” for tolerating unrest. "What is at stake,” he said, "is the very future of the leadership of the socialist system.” Tienanmen Directive: Kill All Witnesses A CIA document is quoted as saying "some of the soldiers were heavily drugged so that they could not be scared by their own action. The use of drugs, however, can only explain the behavior of individual soldiers. It cannot explain the actions of the military as a whole. "Soldiers were reported to gun down everybody in sight; they even chased people all the way to back lanes just to kill them. Not only did they try to prevent medical workers from rescuing the wounded, but they even rushed to hospitals to pull off life-support systems from the wounded. This was not trigger-happy individual behavior, but the carefully planned and organized efforts to kill all the eyewitnesses, if possible.” Some 600 miles south of Beijing, American actress Deborah Gates was making a film on location. She was playing the role of an American reporter caught up in the Chinese "civil war” (communists vs. the then pro-Western Chinese government) in the 1930s. Filming had all but finished when news of the Tienanmen massacre reached the film location. Gates immediately turned to the Chinese crew and producer and accused them of complicity in "the murder of women and children.” Gates and her co-star, John Perry, were confined in their hotel overnight. Next day they were told they would be imprisoned if they "spread any more lies.” They were told their contracts were canceled and the Chinese would not help them get out of the country. Gates and Perry finally escaped from their hotel, and ultimately got out of the country by a circuitous route involving several nights of sleeping on airport floors among the throngs of people waiting for a flight out. A week later, the actress was home with her story, as recorded in a diary she had strapped to her body, of life on location in China, complete with photos of students demonstrating in support of the protesters. Hollywood Left Yawns The actress offered to sell her story to any of Hollywood’s 2,000 producers. There were no takers. The same Hollywood that for the past 50 years has repeatedly depicted goose-stepping Nazis and corrupt American business executives could not find entertainment value in one of the most horrendous massacres in modern history, committed by communists. The same Hollywood that has cried "blacklisting” when anyone blew the whistle on post-war communist writers and producers saw fit to "blacklist” a true story depicting communists engaged in monstrous evil. The first President Bush lost his job in the 1992 elections, in part because candidate Bill Clinton criticized him for not standing up to Beijing. When Clinton took the reins of power, he not only did not stand up to China’s leaders, he opened up the White House doors to their operatives, took their campaign cash, soft-pedaled Chinese spying in the U.S., and allowed big campaign contributors to endanger U.S. security in their dealings with China. Now the current President Bush goes to China, talks behind closed doors with Chinese leaders about exports to murderous regimes that want to kill Americans, and Chinese leaders inform the U.S. government that before any arms talks can bear fruit, the U.S. should stop annoying them with this issue. Figuratively speaking, the Chinese communists again refuse to "take the president’s call.” History repeats itself.
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