US SECRET POLICE EPISODES

[Henry C.K. Liu]

Whoever sits in the White House will have to promote US-China relations as a
key matter of US national interest.  Yet, Clinton in the 1992 election made
China a partisan campaign issue, breaking the already tenuous bipartisan
foreign policy tradition of Senator Vandenburg.
Now the converted Clinton, along with his Democrat successor, will have to
take his own medicine from the Republicans.  China will be a domestic
political issue back to the Truman days and that lasted until Nixon.  There
are still cool heads in both parties, but they will lay low during election
time every four years.

Henry C.K.Liu

t byfield wrote:


> > Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 19:59:50 -0700
> > From: Sam Pawlett <rsp at uniserve.com>
> > Subject: Re: US SECRET POLICE EPISODES
>  <...>
>
> > administration? The paramilitary right has made in no secret that they
> > would like to see Billy leave the White House feet first, for the usual
> > reasons; refusal to invade Cuba, soft on China, submitting to the
>                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> i just thought it's be worth pointing out in this context what a
> canard this 'soft on china' stuff is wrt clinton. watch me pull a
> rabbit out of my hat:
>
>      (1) ca. 1974 appointed second head of the contact office
>          established in beijing by nixon and kissinger so as
>          to circumvent the 'foreign policy bureaucracy'; while
>          in this position, oversees programs involving secret
>          transfers of military technologies, sensitive intel-
>          ligence, preferential and exceptional trade arrange-
>          ments, etc.
>      (2) head of the CIA; reputation as a 'china hand'
>      (3) vice president for 8 years
>      (4) president for 4 years
>
> grrrrrrrowl. this CV ain't clinton's. between 1974--just three years
> after the US and the PRC established relations--and 1992, senor bush
> senior was in an excellent position to decisively shape much if not
> most of US china policy. and now the repuglicans want to hold mr.
> bill's feet to the fire for this all?
>
> cheers,
> t