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Clinton's China Policy Fattened War Machine Wes Vernon, NewsMax.comWASHINGTON -- Chinese dissident Harry Wu returned to this country in the mid-Nineties after risking his life in Communist China “only to watch the United States give up its best weapon in the struggle for human rights.” That weapon was the option of withholding “normal” trade relations with a country that exports to the United States products made by slave labor. This in turn fattens the Chinese military machine, bolstering the ability of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army to wage war on the U.S. These were the Clinton years when apologists for the president were saying, “Everybody lies about sex.” Wu’s account of the sell-out to the Chinese suggests that the question of whether “everybody” lies about treason should have been addressed. In his book “Trouble Maker,” the freedom-loving author says he was astonished when President Bill Clinton announced he was not going to use tariffs to pressure China to improve its behavior on human rights. In renewing China’s most-favored-nation (MFN) status, and openly admitting he would abandon all pretense at pressuring China to stop its slave state economy, Clinton “was going to trade with China as if it were a first-world democracy and not expect any improvements in human rights.” Wu who had spent a total of about twenty years in the infamous Communist Chinese labor camps had always looked to America “as a country that spoke out---and acted against—dictators. But not this time.” The United States had withheld MFN status from South Africa because of its system of apartheid. The threat of withholding it from other countries kept them on their best behavior. “Why couldn’t Washington show the same courage toward China for its treatment of dissidents and the Tibetan people?” Of course, as later investigations showed, Bill Clinton was cozying up to Beijing after it was clear there was lots of illegal campaign money to be had from that source. That was an inducement that did not encourage the then president to send a message to slave labororers and Tibetans that he was feeling their pain. From the beginning, it seems, the Chinese had Clinton’s number. “The Chinese sensed that President Clinton would not be tough,” Harry Wu tells us, “they have a nose for such things. Look, I’m Chinese. Everybody knows you have to be strong with them. You have to threaten them and take strong actions, and they will respect you. But if you try to show a good example and expect them to follow, they will walk all over you.” And walk all over Clinton they did Wu has watched Clinton as he interacts with many Americans and foreigners who have suffered. Though legitimate questions have been raised as to whether “feeling their pain” is an act of an astute politician who knows when to bite his lip while the TV cameras are whirring, he gives the impression of “real feeling, as he embraces them and looks them in the eye.” “I just wish he would show the same empathy with the millions of people in the Chinese camps,” Wu writes in “Trouble Maker.” “To me,” he adds, “the president’s words of May 1994 [announcing the MFN status for China] sound as if he did not want [Chinese leader] Deng Xiaoping and his followers to be mad at him. Instead, he has made some Americans mad at him.” But apparently not the ones who come with fat campaign contributions. As Wu says, “Western businesspeople start salivating when they contemplate the profits they hope to harvest in China.” It was Lenin the father of twentieth century Communism who prophesied that when it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will be bidding against each other to provide the rope. Clinton’s decision to look the other way regarding Chinese human rights violations caused columnist A.M. Rosenthal to conclude on May 31, 1994, “Politically, the Chinese Communists have taken a new prisoner—the President.”
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