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CHINA E-LOBBY UPDATE: APRIL 16, 2003
Tell Gay Hartwell Sills of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to kill the Global Crossing sale to Hutchison Whampoa (see American-Related News and the 3/19 and 3/26 Updates for more on this).
TOP STORY: KATRINA LEUNG ARRESTED FOR SENDING SECRETS TO PRC
�EVERY� PRC INVESTIGATION GOING BACK TWELVE YEARS �COMPROMISED�; ONE EX-FBI AGENT WHO HAD AFFAIR WITH �PARLOR MAID� ARRESTED; ANOTHER QUITS AS HEAD OF COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AT NUCLEAR LAB FROM WHICH PRC MAY HAVE TAKEN SECRETS
James J. Smith and Katrina M. Leung are under arrest for giving Communist China �information about FBI personnel, a telephone list from an espionage investigation and intelligence on the whereabouts of Chinese fugitives� (Washington Post 4/10). Leung, a �well-known contributor to the Republican Party,� was recruited by Smith to spy against the so-called People�s Republic of China.
Leung kept her operation going for two decades, in no small part thanks to affairs with at least two FBI agents, including Smith, who gave her much of the information she shipped to Communist China. In a profile of Leung (4/11-1), the Post revealed that Smith �was among the FBI agents who had investigated whether China illegally tried to channel money into the 1996 presidential election.�
Meanwhile, William Cleveland Jr. � the other agent (now retired) who carried on with Leung � quit his post as senior counterintelligence official at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a nuclear weapons lab (Washington Times). The lab has �stripped him of his security clearances and launched an investigation of his nine-year tenure� (Washington Post 4/11-2).
The fallout from this is already massive. Representative Christopher Cox (R-California), who chaired a 1990�s committee investigating Communist China�s espionage operations in the United States, said the FBI told him �basically every Chinese counterintelligence case� since 1991 had been �compromised� (Washington Post 4/12-1).
That includes �nuclear secrets case involving former Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Wen Ho Lee; the alleged transfer of neutron warhead secrets to China from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (emphasis added); and the purported efforts by the Chinese government to illegally contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars to political campaigns in this country during the 1996 election.�
In the 1996 election investigation, the FBI actually recruited Leung as a major source of information, and to help entice suspected PRC �agent of influence� Ted Sioeng, who �sat next to Al Gore at his Buddhist-temple fund-raiser� (Newsweek), back into the U.S. in 1997. Now, �FBI officials want to know if Leung sabotaged the probe and was actually protecting Sioeng.� Link Courtesy Ron Vogel, Member since 2000
According to Newsmax, the �Parlor Maid� was kept on the FBI payroll, and in the information chain, even after �Smith knew Leung had unauthorized contact� with Communist agents. A federal judge ordered Leung, who apparently cheated on her taxes, too (Washington Post 4/12-2), to be held without bail (CNN, BBC, Washington Post 4/16, New York Post).
NEWS ON COMMUNIST CHINA, EAST TURKESTAN, AND THE TERRORIST WAR
PRC TRYING TO LEARN FROM IRAQ, MAY GIVE MILITARY AID TO NORTH KOREA
Communist China is looking to the U.S.-led victory against Ba�athism in Iraq for an �assessment . . . focused on two issues: the impending North Korean crisis, and chinks in the American armor that have been exposed in the heated campaign� (Willy Wo-Lap Lam, CNN). The latter largely deal mainly with countering American military technology with PRC �fast-modernizing weaponry.�
Regarding North Korea, the Communists are still very worried about the U.S. taking action against �the North Korean buffer,� and may �provide some form of military assistance to Pyongyang, including anti-missile facilities.� The weapons would stay under Communist military control �to prevent such weapons from being misused by the Kim Jong Il regime.�
One should note that the PRC helped integrate Ba�athist air defenses, sold the regime missile fuel, and nearly sold it missile-launching patrol boats � the U.S. interdicted and bought the shipment (see 2/21/01, 2/28/01, 3/7/01, 3/14/01, 3/21/01, 12/18/02, and 3/19 Updates).
COMMUNIST CHINA JOINS OTHER WAR FOES IN PUSHING FOR POST-IRAQ ROLE
Communist China, having opposed the war against Ba�athism in Iraq, is �enthusiastically (Willy Wo-Lap Lam, CNN) looking for a hand in its rebuilding. Besides being owed �a few hundreds of millions of dollars� by the dying regime, the Communists are �also eager to re-establish a reliable supply of petroleum from Iraq.�
COMMUNIST MEDIA NOTE BAGHDAD FALL, NOT LOCAL ANGER AT SADDAM
The Communists� willingness to have their media cover the war does not, of course, extend to the context surrounding major victories. The fall of Baghdad did make the news, but not �the Iraqi crowd's jubilation and vented rage� (BBC). Why not? �The association the authorities keenly want to avoid is that if statues of Saddam Hussein can teeter and fall, so can those of the late Chairman Mao.� Indeed.
Check out these stories and more on the Communist China and the Terrorist War page.
NORTH KOREA NEWS
BEIJING TO HOST TALKS ON NORTH KOREA NUKES; PRC IN, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA OUT
This may be the only place where this news is not seen as terrific: Communist China will host and take part in talks with the U.S. and North Korea over the latter�s nuclear weapons program. While the Stalinist regime will have its ally at the table, the U.S. will be alone: South Korea and Japan �will not take part in the talks� (BBC). The meeting is set for a week from today, according to CNN.
The North admitted to violating a 1994 agreement to freeze its nuclear ambitions last October. They have been demanding one-on-one talks with the U.S. ever since. Now they get an even better deal, three-way talks with its oldest ally as participant and host. They call this a �breakthrough� (Washington Post)? Also reporting: Cybercast News
PRC BLOCKS UN CONDEMNATION OF NORTH ON NUKES
As predicted from reports in the last Update, Communist China did indeed block all efforts by the United Nations Security Council to condemn North Korea for its nuclear ambitions, which violate numerous pledges and agreements by the Stalinists. The UNSC expressed �concern� (CNN) about the issue instead. Also reporting: Cybercast News, Washington Post
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OTHER AMERICAN-RELATED NEWS
U.S. WON�T SPONSOR ANTI-PRC HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTION IN UN
The U.S. made Communist China very happy by �declining to sponsor� (Washington Post) an anti-PRC resolution to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. State Department spokesperson Richard Boucher had the audacity to claim that the PRC had made �limited but significant progress� on human rights. Human rights groups ripped the move. Also reporting: Newsmax
HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS NEWS
MILITARY DOCTOR WHO CHALLENGED PRC ON SARS: �I DON�T KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN�
The story of Jiang Yanyong could end in tragedy. Jiang is the retired Communist military doctor (apologies, the �retired� was missing from the last Update) who exposed the PRC lies on SARS in Beijing. According to Newsmax, Jiang has yet to be punished for his bravery, but �I don't know what will happen later.� Stay tuned. Also reporting: Washington Post
OTHER MAINLAND NEWS
AS VIRUS SPREADS, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SAYS PRC �UNDERCOUNTED� VICTIMS
The Communist aversion to the truth about severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) continues. The World Health Organization (WHO) charged the PRC with �failing to report the full extent of the Sars virus� (BBC) in Beijing. According to WHO, the capital may have �up to 200 cases, instead of the 37 reported officially.� Also reporting: Washington Post
CNN later reported that the Communist SARS numbers �excluded patients in military hospitals.� The Communists kept quiet about the disease for months, which allowed it to infect hundreds in Hong Kong and spread around the world (see 3/19, 3/26, 4/2 , and last Updates). Meanwhile, the virus has spread to the rural province of Inner Mongolia, where at least ten people have fallen ill (BBC). See International News, Republic of China (Taiwan) News, and Hong Kong News for more on SARS.
WEN JIABAO, HU JINTAO EXPRESS SARS CONCERN
Meanwhile, Communist Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao admitted that the SARS situation in the PRC was �grave� Cybercast News and promised that the Communists would �speak the truth� (Willy Wo-Lap Lam, CNN) about the disease in the future. PRC President Hu Jintao later joined Wen, saying, �I feel anxious for the masses� (Washington Times, Newsmax). Also reporting: Washington Post
IS SARS A BIOWEAPON?
Maybe, says Sergei Kolesnikov, a member of Russian Medical Sciences Academy. Kolesnikov presented his theory on SARS to the Indian news service PTI (reprinted by the Hindu). Link courtesy of �bpolk�, Member since 2002
HEALTH OFFICIAL SAYS PRC USING �EARLY DETECTION AND EARLY REPORTING�
If it weren�t so tragic, it would be hilarious. Ma Xiaowei, Communist China's Vice Minister of Health, said the PRC is fighting the disease with �the principle of early detection and early reporting� (CNN). If this is what the Communists call �early reporting� � the disease was kept secret for months � what would they define as �late� reporting?
COMMUNIST DOCTOR CALLS SARS �CONTAINED,� NOT UNDER CONTROL
Zhong Nanshan, director of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases in Guangdong province � where SARS began � told the media that he considered the disease �contained� (BBC).
COMMUNIST CHINA CLAIMS 9% GROWTH IN FIRST THREE MONTHS OF 2003
Communist China claimed that its economy �grew by 9% in the first quarter of 2003� (BBC). However, even the Communist-run China Daily Business Weekly admitted growth would slow for the rest of the year. The PRC has a history of fudging economic numbers, in particular inflating growth figures (see 3/20/02, 4/17/02, 10/30/02 Updates).
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
POSSIBLE SARS CASE LEADS TO ONTARIO QUARANTINE
Nearly 200 employees of a Hewlett-Packard in Ontario are under quarantine �after one worker showed up for work despite showing symptoms� (Washington Post) of SARS. Over 150 Canadians are likely infected from the disease that began in Guangdong province last November and thrived under Communist secrecy (see last Update).
ISHIHARA BREEZES TO SECOND TERM
Tokyo Governor and fiery anti-Communist Shintaro Ishihara won easy re-election this week, taking 70% of the vote in Japanese capital. Ishihara, touted by some as Japan�s next Prime Minister, has called for a more assertive Japan against Communist China and Stalinist North Korea. Report: BBC
REPUBLIC OF CHINA (TAIWAN) NEWS
TAIWAN HOPES SARS MAKES ITS CASE FOR WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP
Taiwan has suffered few cases of SARS, and no deaths. Its handling of the disease � called �a model of containing the epidemic� (Washington Times) � could be the justification it needs to finally win observer status to the World Health Organization. All previous attempts to win such status have been blocked by Communist China � the folks who kept the disease a secret for months.
In a painful irony, as the Communists were telling the WHO to keep out before this month, all ROC requests for WHO help, and willingness to share information, were ignored, because it was not a member.
HONG KONG NEWS
SARS CLAIMS SIX �HEALTHY� VICTIMS
At first, all SARS deaths in Hong Kong had previously been �elderly (patients) or had other underlying health problems which may have weakened them� (BBC). No more: six young and otherwise �healthy� patients have died, meaning the disease could be stronger than previously thought. Also reporting: CNN
No news was reported from Tibet this week.
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