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Smith Wednesday, May 28, 2003 Chinese Arms Maker Gets Cut The Bush administration has just imposed a two-year ban on imports from Chinese arms maker NORINCO (China North Industries). The move is welcomed in national security and human rights circles but viewed with great displeasure in the boardrooms of Wal-Mart and Kmart. CSN is an affiliation of human rights and national security experts who advocate a ban on all imports from China. NORINCO manufactures ballistic missiles, artillery, machine guns, tanks, lasers, radars, surface-to-air missiles, ammunition and land mines, to name a few. NORINCO also makes a wide variety of household products sold in retails stores in America. The fundamental principles of Chinese strategy are embodied in two Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) terms for national defense. Junzhuanmin is the turning over of military resources to civilians for civilian use, and junmin jieje is the integration of the military and civilian. Both terms refer to the combination of military and civilian resources such as airports, seaports, roads and communications. However, Junzhuanmin and junmin jieje also translate into a conversion that is reversible, with each resource having a dual function military and civilian. This twin-track policy has resulted in increased budgets for the Chinese army, advanced technology for modern weapons and a strengthening of the Chinese military-industrial complex. According to a Commerce Department document on Chinese military defense industries, the PLA strategy is an economic war against America. NORINCO does an estimated $100 million in business in the West each year, selling everything from small arms to toys. The low-cost Chinese products are a result of low-cost labor. NORINCO has had a long history of bad corporate behavior in the West. Clinton Dummy Commerce Department While NORINCO was very well known inside the Clinton White House, Clinton's front office for advanced military exports to China, the Commerce Department, claimed to know little about the multibillion-dollar arms giant. In 1996, Clinton transferred export oversight to the inept and ill-equipped Commerce Department. President Clinton signed the executive order that ended 40 years of legislation designed to prevent war. The transfer also forced the paper trail for military exports to China to now end at the Commerce Department instead of at the Oval Office. In 1997, after the transfer of authority by Clinton, Commerce Department officials in Beijing clearly stated they did not track Chinese army-owned companies. We do not maintain a formal FCS all-encompassing computer database of Chinese companies. In fact, the main reason why the Bush administration imposed the severe penalties on NORINCO was for its unrestricted sales of ballistic missile technology to Iran. John Huang and NORINCO In contrast, the Clinton administration paid little attention to NORINCO arms sales to the Middle East. However, there was one member of the Clinton team who seemed to be keenly aware of NORINCO sales attempts. According to documents discovered in the offices of convicted Chinagate figure John Huang, NORINCO wanted to sell artillery to Kuwait. It is understood that the Chinese are pressing this issue with the Kuwait Government," notes the Commerce document from Huang's files. Why would John Huang, ex-Lippo banker and DNC fund-raiser, follow NORINCO artillery sales from his Commerce Department office? John Huang invoked his Fifth Amendment rights over 2,000 times when asked under oath if he was an agent of the Chinese army. NORINCO Friends It is a fact that NORINCO sells its weapons to a wide variety of nations. Information published in the Pakistan Observer on June 23, 1998, noted that China also transferred a large number of depleted uranium tank shells designed for the Pakistani armored forces. Pakistan has recently upgraded its Type-59s with night vision, stabilized guns and laser range finders, and some have received a heavier 115 mm smooth-bore Chinese gun. According to Commerce Department documents, the Clinton administration approved the export of blade cutters and molds for a NORINCO artillery-fuse production facility. We Offer A Unique, 100% Successful, Process Of Debt Relief! Mantis Tiller/Cultivator Americas Favorite Small Tiller.
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