NEWS: Chinese Defector Says China Still Wants To Weaken US

insider.washingtontimes.com
"The United States is considered by the Chinese Communist Party as the largest enemy, the major strategic rival," Mr. Chen told The Washington Times in a telephone interview from Australia, where he is in hiding after breaking with Beijing in May.
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On China's military buildup, Mr. Chen said Beijing is following the strategy of former leader Deng Xiaoping, who urged China to "bide our time, build our capabilities" -- military as well as economic and political. "What that means is that when the day is mature, the Chinese government will strike back," he said.
Mr. Chen said the danger of a war over Taiwan is growing.
"That is possible as Chinese society is getting more unstable," he said. "Once any serious civil disobedience occurs, the government may call for a war across the Taiwan Strait to gather [political] strength from people."


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On June 4, though he allegedly feared being kidnapped, Chen come out of hiding in order to address a rally commemorating the 16th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. During his speech, he claimed that he would "reveal everything he knows" if he was allowed to remain in Australia. He also claimed that the Chinese government had more than a thousand agents in Australia, and that they were responsible for kidnapping Chinese dissidents and returning them to China. Furthermore, Chen claimed that in one particular case in early 2000, Chinese agents in Sydney had kidnapped a student, Lan Meng, to force his dissident father to return to China. The father, Lan Fu, did return in 2000 to face prosecution and a death sentence, but the charges stemmed from a US$6 billion smuggling racket in Xiamen, where Lan Fu had been deputy mayor, rather than from any dissident activity. Lan's lawyer denied that kidnapping played a part in his client's voluntary return, and on June 10 Chen appeared to retract that accusation, commenting only that "I said that in fear, and I don't want to talk about it again." On June 22, however, Chen provided further details about the alleged kidnapping, naming Zhang Jin, Deputy Director of the Third Department of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, as the official responsible for the abduction.

"Once any serious civil disobedience occurs, the government may call for a war across the Taiwan Strait to gather [political] strength from people."

Originally posted by Moretti
This is probably more "fun" type of reporting, the washington times is owned by this guy :

[edit on 28-6-2005 by Moretti]

Originally posted by the_oleneo
Admiral Thomas Moorer was right to warn several years ago about the growing political, economic and military capabilities of Communist China to undermine the United States with everything China have got.

Anyone here in favor of China's undermining the USA per se?

[edit on 6/28/2005 by the_oleneo]

Originally posted by Muaddib
BTW, do you happen to have any idiosyncrasies?

Originally posted by Moretti

Originally posted by Muaddib
BTW, do you happen to have any idiosyncrasies?

Yes. I don't like reading military propaganda in civilian news.

Originally posted by Odium
I like the idea of having several strong Nations instead of one "all powerful" nation. Over the next 50 years, we'll see China, Brazil and India all move up to the level of Super-power and if America does not sort its debt out they'll slowly fade into the background.

Couple that with a strong united Europe and Russia, it will make politics a lot more interesting. At last Nations will be able to stand up for-themselves and not be "bullied" about.

ulshadow, just on a side note do you know what happened when Nike closed their factories down in Africa back in the early 90's due to the slave-labour problem?

Originally posted by Odium
No, the children who worked after School could no longer afford to eat, there parents could no longer afford to feed them and they starved.

Although I am not a fan of "slave labour" those kids need the money to buy food, they also have an education so eventually they will pull themselves out of it. If the Government are not able to help them they will just die and it has been seen all over Africa. It's a sad state of affairs, but it's simple fact and it's fairly easy to see.

Originally posted by subz
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It seems your questioning of the veracity of the source has raised the ire of the 'source questioner' himself. Duck and cover.
[edit on 29/6/05 by subz]