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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: L&J: SLS: Anti-China Mood Troubles U.S. Businesses (fwd)
I don't hate these avowed enemies of the
United States of America. I love them,
and I plan to love them to death, or until
they understand the all pervasive principles
of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,
which are the stated goals of our Republican
form of government. China is NOT a Republic,
not by any stretch of the imagination. See
the Preamble; the intent of a law IS the law.
Thomas Jefferson was not born in Hong Kong,
and neither was I. I don't care what color
or race they are, but if they are planning
to smuggle military hardware, troops, and
who-knows-what-else (biological weapons?) here,
I have not only a right, but a moral and legal
duty, to repel this invasion with everything
I've got. If I don't, I will never be able to
live with myself. Now, if the nut cases in
the District of Criminals want to slander me,
for choosing to rely upon satire, for now,
then it won't be the first time, or the last.
Just understand that, if he had not been hit
right in the face with white-hot shrapnel,
my father would have been one of those Marines
who raised the American flag on Mt. Surabachi.
I have to walk in his shadow, and I intend
to do just that, NO MATTER WHAT!! Now, there
are some people on the Internet who have grown
tired of my repeated references to Iwo Jima,
and they have let me know it, in no uncertain
terms. That's fine: Let's hear it for the
First Amendment! Hooray!!
Have I made myself clear here, or not?
Your move.
/s/ Paul Mitchell
At 08:58 PM 3/23/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Another viewpoint, this one from the L.A. Times. Who profits by this?
>
>
>Barb
>:-)
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 19:32:08 -0500
>From: E Pluribus Unum <eplurib@megalinx.net>
>To: eplurib@megalinx.net
>Subject: Anti-China Mood Troubles U.S. Businesses
>
>Anti-China Mood Troubles U.S. Businesses
>By EVELYN IRITANI, Times Staff Writer
>
>Allegations of foreign meddling in U.S. political campaigns have triggered
>a wave of anti-China sentiment and turned doing business with China into a
>high-risk occupation.
>
>U.S. companies are being attacked as tools of the Chinese government.
>Politicians are being criticized for meeting Chinese business people. And
>in Long Beach, a modest port development project involving a shipping line
>owned by the Chinese government has become a target of congressional
>scrutiny and a nationwide hate mail campaign.
>
>As the mood in Congress worsens, the prospects for granting China
>permanent most-favored-nation trade status and membership in the World
>Trade Organization--long regarded as steps that would help bring China
>into the international community--grow increasingly slim.
>
>Figures as diverse as House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.),
>who on Thursday reintroduced legislation requiring congressional approval
>of China's admission to the WTO, and conservative columnist Patrick J.
>Buchanan are campaigning against granting China those trade privileges.
>
>American business feels caught in the middle.
>
>"If you're selling to China, you're out there in a big way," said Peter
>Bowe, president of Baltimore-based Ellicott Machine Corp., a dredging
>machine manufacturer that exports to Asia. "If the U.S. is out there,
>you're out there. And you're either kissed or kicked."
>
>Anti-China sentiment in the United States has ebbed and flowed for
>decades. The angry reaction to such developments as China's high-tech
>piracy, a $39.5-billion trade surplus with the U.S. and now, alleged
>influence-peddling, is probably predictable.
>
>But never have the implications been so great for U.S. business and
>economic interests. The gradual opening of China's enormous market has
>created a land rush among aerospace, chemical, automotive, energy and
>other industries increasingly dependent on growth overseas. Any threat to
>the U.S.-China relationship looms especially large in California, whose
>economy is closely tied to Asia.
>
>That has made the emotional rhetoric surrounding the Port of Long Beach
>controversy and other U.S.-China issues troublesome to many, who fear it
>could lead to a disengagement from commercial ties and result in long-term
>damage to relations between the two nations.
>
>"China presents no danger to the United States unless we create a danger,"
>said Burton Levin, a former U.S. consul general in Hong Kong and now a
>professor at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. "And that's the
>direction I fear it's going."
>
>China's critics represent an eclectic coalition of special-interest
>groups, from environmentalists, labor leaders and human rights activists
>to neo-isolationists and anti-Communists. Articles painting China as the
>global threat of the '90s have appeared recently in the liberal New
>Republic and the conservative Washington Standard as well as Foreign
>Affairs, the bible of foreign policy discourse.
>
>The anti-China drumbeat spread from Beltway chatter in Washington to
>talk-show fodder earlier this year when an FBI report surfaced that
>accused the Chinese government of trying to influence U.S. policy by
>illegally funneling money into political campaigns.
>
>China vehemently denies the allegations of influence-peddling, which have
>yet to be proved.
>
>David Tang, a Seattle attorney who specializes in China trade, said
>China's critics are casting too wide a net by treating all Chinese
>economic activity as suspect.
>
>"Our elected leaders are going to be very reticent, very hesitant, to meet
>with any foreign businessmen and hesitant to meet anybody from the Asian
>community for fear they may be tainted," Tang said.
>
>Indeed, Vice President Al Gore's trip to China this week has become highly
>sensitive, given charges that the White House was the target of Chinese
>influence-peddling. But Gore's office on Friday denied reports that he had
>considered skipping a ceremony announcing the sale of Boeing 777s during
>his visit.
>
>In the past, the White House has happily taken credit for U.S. airplane
>sales abroad because they often create jobs--and political benefit--back
>home.
>
>As he headed for Asia on Saturday, Gore said he plans to discuss the
>influence-peddling issue with Chinese officials. "I will of course discuss
>every issue that has potential impact on the relationship between our two
>countries," Gore told reporters as Air Force Two headed into Elmendorf Air
>Force Base in Alaska for refueling en route to Tokyo. But he stressed:
>"This is not what this trip is about."
>
>Asked if he believes that the accusations will seriously affect U.S.-Sino
>relations, Gore said: "I hate to use a cliche: Time will tell."
>
>Frank Martin, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, said
>he fears that the political heat is causing U.S. politicians to pull back
>from Asia at a time when they need more, rather than less, exposure in the
>region. He said his office has been contacted recently by politicians
>debating the wisdom of traveling to Hong Kong and China in the current
>political climate.
>
>Meanwhile, promoting business in Asia has become a high-wire act. "Things
>we thought we could count on are totally off kilter," said a Washington
>consultant who works with U.S. businesses abroad.
>
>Failure to win permanent most-favored-nation status for China would be a
>blow to U.S. business leaders, who argue that the current system of
>reviewing China's trade status annually wreaks havoc on their long-term
>planning and disrupts the overall relationship.
>
>"Up until last fall, many of us still thought [permanent
>most-favored-nation status] was a possibility, but now the situation has
>just deteriorated too far," said Douglas Paal, president of the
>Washington-based Asia Pacific Policy Center.
>
>While U.S. executives share these concerns in private, they are
>increasingly wary of taking them public. Yet they bristle at the notion
>that business people are untrustworthy participants in the debate. They
>argue that American executives have had more on-the-ground experience with
>China--from personal contacts with powerful leaders to transforming
>state-owned companies into free-market operators--than anyone else in the
>U.S.
>
>"The notion that the business sector is now disqualified from having views
>or supporting those views . . . is absurd on the face of it," said Robert
>Kapp, president of the Washington-based U.S.-China Business Council.
>
>In Long Beach, a plan to lease an abandoned Navy base to China Ocean
>Shipping Co., or Cosco, for a 145-acre container terminal--previously
>opposed on environmental grounds--has now become a lightning rod for
>sometimes ugly anti-China sentiment.
>
>Port officials are fighting efforts by columnist Buchanan and others who
>claim that approving the lease would be tantamount to turning over Long
>Beach to the Chinese military. Cosco, which has been calling on Long Beach
>since 1981, is China's state-owned carrier.
>
>U.S. Reps. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-San Diego) and Duncan Hunter (R-El
>Cajon) have asked the Navy to halt the project until Congress can review
>the security implications.
>
>Staffers at the port have been on the receiving end of a barrage of hate
>mail and critical letters and faxes over the past two weeks.
>
>One staffer was spat at during a public meeting, and others have been
>called "traitors" and "Commie lovers."
>
>Times staff writer Elizabeth Shogren in Alaska contributed to this report.
>
>* HONG KONG OUTLOOK: Residents are optimistic about the economic future
>but less so when it comes to politics. A14
>
>Copyright Los Angeles Times
>
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