Correction, please!(rebuttals to news reports about Chinese foreign policy and other liberal news reports)(Brief Article)

Beijing's Two Faces

ITEM: "Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz," reported the Associated Press on May 29th, said "it is unclear whether an increasingly strong China will emerge as a force for peace in East Asia or as a 'threatening power.'"

CORRECTION: Anyone taking the time to study China's repressive history will easily see just how aggressively the Communist regime has behaved, both regionally and worldwide.

China's "worrying friendships" with sponsors of terrorism such as Iran and Libya, said London's Economist, should concern Washington. A Hong Kong magazine, Cheng Ming, has taken note of its double game. Jiang Zemin has been playing the "bad guy" by "joining hands with the axis of evil," while his vice president and likely successor Hu Jintao played the "good guy" on a Washington visit.

China's actions are telling. As reported in American Legion, Beijing has taken over from Moscow the use of Cuba as an electronic espionage center against the United States. China is paying Castro more than $200 million a year for a signals intelligence complex in Bejucal. The CIA, meanwhile, has issued a warning about China's plans for widespread cyber attacks on the U.S. and Taiwan.

Ironically, China receives backing from its targets. The Export-Import Bank, as Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas) has pointed out, is a "corporate welfare program that gives hundreds of millions of dollars to companies like Enron and governments like Communist China." Beijing, confirms the Congressional Research Service, is the single largest beneficiary of trade subsidized by the Export-Import Bank.

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