2-15-1999 The Clinton-Gore Administration has been engaged in a six-year, full-tilt sellout that has been simultaneously modernizing the Red Chinese military machine with financial aid and top-of-the-line technology and dangerously jeopardizing American national security and military readiness. What motivated the Clinton-Gore machine to adopt this treacherous course?
According to Senator Thompson, it was greed and “political desperation.” The report issued by Thompson’s Governmental Affairs Committee in March 1998 explains: “On November 8, 1994, Americans shifted control of both houses of Congress to the Republican Party for the first time in 40 years. For a time, the election rendered President Clinton so weak in the polls that many experts questioned his ‘relevance,’ suggesting that he might face a primary challenge as he attempted to secure his re-election in 1996. The election results spurred great concern among the President’s supporters that he might suffer a similarly disastrous defeat in 1996.... The President and his advisors determined that the key to their success in the 1996 elections would be to wage immediately a massive television political advertising campaign of unprecedented cost.” The President and his strategists, the Senate report claims, “devised a legal theory to support their needs and proceeded to raise and spend $44 million in excess of the Presidential campaign spending limits.” Much of that money came from illegal sources, and many of those illegal sources were foreign donors. And many of those foreign donors were sluicing money into the Clinton-Gore spendathon from the People’s Republic of China. But this was not largesse without strings; Beijing’s Communist mandarins demanded much in return for their campaign cash. And they got it.
Tracing every step of the circuitous routes through which Beijing funneled its money to U.S. campaigns is no easy matter. As the FBI and other police organizations have learned, the Red Chinese operate through a Byzantine labyrinth of corporate shells, directly utilizing their own multitude of PRC commercial enterprises, as well as an even larger constellation of third-party foreign companies and individuals. It is easy to get lost in the dizzying shell games played with entities such as the Lippo Group, Lippo Bank, the China Construction Bank, Hip Hing Holdings, the CP Group, the Hsi Lai Temple, Dynamic Energy Resources, Toy Center Holdings, Entergy Corp., COSCO, Poly Group, Norinco, China Resources, COSTIND, CATIC, and many others….
When longtime Clinton pal and Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell was indicted for tax evasion and fraud related to the Whitewater land scam, Bill and Hillary were desperate to keep him from talking to the prosecutors. The Riadys came through again, with a $100,000 “hush money” payoff to Hubbell from their Lippo-controlled Hong Kong China, Ltd.
Immediately after taking office, the Clinton Administration gutted the Commerce Department’s security system, making Commerce a wholesale outlet for our most sensitive technology to our deadliest enemies. At the insistence of the Riadys, President Clinton personally intervened to override objections of Commerce officials about creating a special position for Lippo’s top U.S. agent, John Huang, and providing him with access to top secret information. This was the Riadys’ crowning achievement. …
Huang, (and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton) took extraordinary measures to place the Riadys’ agent in his strategic position. From documents and testimony made available through congressional hearings, the press, and depositions taken by the legal foundation Judicial Watch, it is plainly evident that Bill Clinton appointed John Huang to his Commerce post as a payoff to the Riadys. (The documentary trail and timeline for this has been set out very clearly by congressional investigators Timperlake and Triplett in Year of the Rat.)
From the outset it was obvious that something was smelly in this arrangement. Why, for instance, did Huang insist on receiving a top secret security clearance when it was not appropriate, or needed, for his consulting assignments? Even more important, why did he get it? A Commerce Department security officer testified before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee that “no other consultant on the Department of Commerce payroll was ever granted a top secret security clearance.”…
All told, Huang received at least 109 security briefings, and visited the White House at least 94 times during his stints at Commerce and the DNC. The full extent of Huang’s influence on President Clinton’s calamitous policies concerning Red China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Indonesia, and the damage to our national security from his (probable) espionage, is still unknown. -W. Jasper https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/25484-chinagate-beijing-bailout
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DIA analyst Lonnie Henley wrote a letter on behalf of his friend
After Washington Times reporter Bill Gertz made the letter public, the DNI (DNI Negroponte, longtime buddy to Kissinger) reprimanded Henley - then promoted him to become Acting National Intelligence Officer for East Asia…
The chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence says he's disturbed by the scope of support in the intelligence community for convicted Chinese spy Ronald Montaperto, and that he plans to investigate.
Rep. Peter Hoekstra tells the Washington Times "You would think that the intel community would set the standard for holding people accountable for mishandling and passing of classified information to our enemies.”…
Years of passing secrets to the military intelligence service of the People's Republic of China will cost Ronald Montaperto only 90 days in prison - the lightest of spankings for crimes that federal guidelines say are worth 20 times the punishment.
"Federal Judge Gerald Bruce Lee said that despite the 'very serious charge' against Ronald Montaperto, he was swayed to reduce the sentence based on letters of support from current and former intelligence and military officials," Bill Gertz reports in the Washington Times….
Ronald Montaperto "did not reveal or admit the passing of secrets until fooled into making admissions in a 2003 sting operation while he worked at the US Pacific Command think tank in Hawaii," Gertz reports.
That revelation from federal investigators clashes with Montaperto's defense that he cooperated voluntarily. "US intelligence officials have said Montaperto was first investigated in the late 1980s after a Chinese defector said Beijing considered him one of their 'dear friends,' or informal supporters of China.”… "A former high-ranking CIA official—Robert G. Sutter, a former national intelligence officer for East Asia and holder of a security clearance—refused FBI appeals for help in tracking Chinese spies and urged others via e-mail not to cooperate because of the recent prosecution of former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Ron Montaperto," writes Washington Times reporter Bill Gertz….
Montaperto, according to Gertz, "was not charged for passing secret and top-secret information to two Chinese military intelligence officers but the activities were outlined in court papers. Montaperto, according to the sentencing memorandum written by his lawyers, passed the classified data to China in order to help U.S.-China relations, which contradicts Mr. Henley's description of him as an unbiased analyst. The memorandum said Montaperto did not pass secrets to China out of 'ideological alignment or sympathy with the People's Republic of China.' Instead he gave the classified data because he thought 'the US and the PRC needed to learn to get along and better understand each other, a belief that was and is consistent with United States foreign policy,' it said.”…
Montaperto's 22 years of contacts with two Chinese military intelligence officers….”The effort by numerous pro-China intelligence analysts is aimed at protecting their prestige and influence and at shielding others in government who share Montaperto's benign views of China and the Chinese military," Bill Gertz reports in the Washington Times, citing US officials. "The result has been near-silence from the Bush administration and Congress on a major Chinese spy case. http://montaperto.blogspot.com
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Intelligence report: China collecting U.S. nuclear secrets By Harry Dunphy
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Several countries, including China, have collected extensive nuclear and other sensitive information from the U.S. government that has "undercut U.S. policy, security and competitiveness,'' according to a previously secret American intelligence community report.
The 1998 report by the CIA and five other agencies said "losses are extensive'' at the besieged Energy Department, and include "classified nuclear weapons design information to the Chinese'' as well as declassified and unclassified material to China and other countries.
The report predates the congressional Cox Report, released last year, which concluded that the transfer of satellite and other technology to China, during and prior to the Clinton administration, harmed national security.
While the agencies "did not conduct a damage assessment of the information lost, individual cases clearly demonstrate that such information has saved countries substantial time and money and has undercut U.S. policy, security and competitiveness,'' said the report, published in a new book on Chinese espionage.
The report, which covers activities prior to November 1998, said Energy Department records show more than 250 known or suspected intelligence officers visited or were assigned to Energy facilities under various programs.
The U.S. intelligence community, working with the department, must "do more to gain a full understanding of the nature and extent of foreign targeting of DOE's unique scientific knowledge base,'' the report said.
Some of the information was simply downloaded from the Internet, while some was stolen, the report said.
Since 1995, the FBI has been investigating the suspected loss of U.S. nuclear warhead data to China, based on information found in documents provided by a defector.
That led to the investigation of Wen Ho Lee, a Taiwan-born researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Lee pleaded guilty to one count of improperly transferring nuclear secrets to a portable computer, but he was never charged with spying for China.
The intelligence report was one of more than 50 pages of documents, many of them classified, published in "The China Threat,'' by Bill Gertz, who writes about defense and national security for The Washington Times.
Three pages in the book carry the notice: "At the request of the Central Intelligence Agency, the publisher has withdrawn a classified report that was to have appeared on this page.''
Bill Harlow, CIA spokesman, said Gertz "did approach us and we were able to convince him to leave several of the documents out. But we would have preferred that none were published.''
One document says China will soon have enough short-range missiles to blanket Taiwan. Another says China is converting medium-range bombers to tankers so it can refuel planes in midair and extend its military reach. Yet another document proposes that the United States provide advanced space technology to China in exchange for not selling missile technology to Iran and Pakistan. Gertz said this idea was withdrawn after it became public knowledge.
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U.S. intelligence report sees Chinese spy threat By Tabassum Zakaria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- China had at least 37 spies concentrating on ferreting out U.S. nuclear arms secrets in the mid-1990s and the effort has been "very successful'', according to a secret U.S. intelligence report.
The report was published in a newly released book, "The China Threat'' by Washington Times reporter Bill Gertz, and also details espionage against the United States by Russia, Japan, France, Israel, India and other countries.
Intelligence report: China collecting U.S. nuclear secrets By Harry Dunphy Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Several countries, including China, have collected extensive nuclear and other sensitive information from the U.S. government that has "undercut U.S. policy, security and competitiveness,'' according to a previously secret American intelligence community report.
The 1998 report by the CIA and five other agencies said "losses are extensive'' at the besieged Energy Department, and include "classified nuclear weapons design information to the Chinese'' as well as declassified and unclassified material to China and other countries.
The report predates the congressional Cox Report, released last year, which concluded that the transfer of satellite and other technology to China, during and prior to the Clinton administration, harmed national security.
While the agencies "did not conduct a damage assessment of the information lost, individual cases clearly demonstrate that such information has saved countries substantial time and money and has undercut U.S. policy, security and competitiveness,'' said the report, published in a new book on Chinese espionage.
The report, which covers activities prior to November 1998, said Energy Department records show more than 250 known or suspected intelligence officers visited or were assigned to Energy facilities under various programs. https://gertzfile.com/gertzfile/wires.html
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November 13, 2000
Beijing's spies gain access to secrets
'Panda huggers' tilt U.S. policy
By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES
(Missteps and appeasement by the U.S. government helped China develop into a dangerous global power, according to The China Threat: How the People's Republic Targets America (Regnery), a new book by Bill Gertz, national security reporter for the Washington Times. In the first of three excerpts he details the hunt for Chinese spies burrowed deep inside the U.S. government.)
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.-- Sun Tzu
In the early 1990s the FBI came across evidence that amounted to a counterspy's worst nightmare: Classified reports showed communist China was running several “assets'' - spies, in the vernacular - who operated clandestinely inside the U.S. government….(One) spy's code name was “Ma'' - Chinese for “horse.''
A Chinese government official who defected to the United States after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 also told U.S. intelligence that China had successfully developed five to 10 clandestine sources of information here. The defector said these agents were known as “Dear Friends'' of China. And one had access to the most sensitive U.S. intelligence data, known as Top Secret-Sensitive Compartmented Information, or SCI.
FBI counterintelligence agents' search for this Chinese "mole'' led to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Pentagon's intelligence arm. A key suspect emerged: Ronald Montaperto. At the time, Mr. Montaperto was a senior DIA analyst specializing in
"estimates,'' or analyses, of matters related to China and East Asia. His job required making official contacts with Chinese government and military officials. In Washington, that meant defense attaches posted to the Chinese Embassy.
Chinese defense attaches are officers who work for the military intelligence department of the People's Liberation Army's General Staff. One was PLA Maj. Gen. Yu Zhenghe, the air attache, who had developed a close relationship with Mr. Montaperto - close enough to be invited to is wedding in 1990….
A Chinese intelligence officer who defected to the United States in 1985 identified a Chinese language specialist for the U.S. government as a spy. The defector was Yu Qiangsheng, a senior intelligence officer in the Ministry of State Security. Mr. Yu had extensive access to information about Chinese intelligence operations and agents. It was Mr. Yu who first put a CIA counterspy on to Larry Wu-Tai Chin, the Chinese language
specialist, who worked for the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service. The service publishes translations of foreign news publications and broadcasts. Mr. Yu, who was resettled in the United States, remains under federal protection. He fears for his life because of Beijing agents.
Mr. Chin eventually was unmasked. He had burrowed within the CIA for about 30 years, passing valuable political intelligence to Beijing. He was a rare catch, but before he could be interrogated thoroughly for “damage assessment,'' he committed suicide in his jail cell.
After the bloody military crackdown on protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, several other Chinese intelligence officers defected, determined to help the United States defeat the Communist government. Two had worked inside the Chinese Embassy in Washington. The defectors' information helped to confirm and update what Mr. Yu had provided years earlier. They explained the care with which Chinese intelligence contacted and serviced its clandestine agents. For instance, intelligence officers never met their agents inside the United States because the FBI was considered too good at catching spies. It was safer to meet abroad, preferably in China….
The U.S. counterspies were troubled that large amounts of extremely sensitive military intelligence was being provided to China. Intelligence intercepts of Chinese government communications gathered by the National Security Agency and supplied to the FBI later revealed that one of the most important agents being run by Chinese intelligence was code-named Ma.
FBI agents eventually confronted Mr. Montaperto during what the Bureau called “hostile interrogations'' over the course of three meetings. They asked bluntly whether he had passed classified intelligence information to China's intelligence service. No, Mr. Montaperto replied. He said any contacts with Chinese intelligence were authorized. He did conceded to the DIA that he knew Gen. Yu, the Chinese intelligence officer….Soon after the investigation, Mr. Montaperto left the DIA. In an interview with this reporter, he said the FBI probe had nothing to do with his departure. As for his friendship with Gen. Yu, he said: “One does not have friends with Chinese officials’’--meaning his contacts were strictly professional. “Did General Yu attend your wedding?'' this reporter asked. “Yes,’' Mr. Montaperto said. It was a relatively small wedding, he said, because it was his second marriage. He said he invited Gen. Yu and other Chinese officials because he thought it would be a good experience for them. Hanging on the wall inside Mr. Montaperto's office was a large scroll of Chinese calligraphy. It contained the characters “horse dragon virtue” which when spoken in Mandarin sound like “Montaperto.'' A second set of characters on the scroll are Chinese for “war horse.’' The scroll is signed by a Chinese intelligence officer, who, like Yu Zhenghe, was an attache at the Chinese Embassy in Washington when Mr. Montaperto received the scroll as a gift. Mr. Montaperto says a student in Shanghai gave it to him….
Mr. Montaperto next went to work at the Pentagon's National Defense University at Fort McNair, a scenic base overlooking the Potomac River in Southwest Washington. He became a “social science analyst'' with the university's Institute for National Strategic Studies, a think tank for security issues. Gen. Yu, meanwhile, remains one of China's most important intelligence officers. He works for Gen. Xiong Guangkai, the PLA's deputy chief of staff for intelligence. According to one U.S. national security official, Gen. Xiong returned to the United States in 1996 during the Taiwan Strait crisis and tried to meet Mr. Montaperto. The crisis was prompted by test firings of Chinese missiles near Taiwan; the United States dispatched two aircraft carrier battle groups to the region.
Mr. Montaperto's primary job at the government's National Defense University is to oversee the China portion of an annual “Strategic Assessment,'' to speak on China policy around the world and to organize an occasional conference on China. His pronounced pro-China view plays down that nation's military capabilities, specifically its development of strategic and conventional forces….
When Congress ordered creation of a National Defense University clearinghouse for intelligence on the People's Liberation Army, Mr. Montaperto presented the plan to the Pentagon. It called for hiring 33 specialists, opening a large office in Southwest and spending $4.5 million a year….senior officials objected to Mr. Montaperto's appointment as director of the new center. But the university named him director anyway.
The late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping said China must avoid provoking a conflict with the United States until China has the military, economic and political power to win. In the words of Mr. Deng: “Hide brightness; nourish obscurity.’' Or as the official translation in Beijing put it, “Bide our time and build up our capabilities.’’…What China wanted was three more decades of Clinton-style “engagement,'' a policy that downplays Chinese military capabilities, encourages decreasing U.S. defense spending and gives China major technical and financial boosts. Chinese officials view certain specialists in the United States as important outlets for Beijing’s views. Many of these China specialists are current or former government officials….
Take “Chinasec.'' Every morning, a group of about 100 high-level U.S. policy-makers and intelligence officials receives e-mail postings a part of this Internet discussion group, whose innocuous-sounding name stands for ``China security.’' The informal electronic gathering includes some of the most important
China policy-makers in the U.S. government, including the Pentagon’s desk officer for China matters, Col. John Corbett. The group is decidedly pro-China and often criticizes news articles - in particular this reporter's work for the Washington Times - that explore Chinese weapons sales to rogue states or espionage against the United States. For instance, when Wa Times reported on the critical views of China held by Condoleeza Rice, a key foreign policy adviser to Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush, Chinasec swung into action. The e-mail network adopted the standard posture of the Clinton administration: spin. It dismissed the article as exaggerated and the work of a “nonexpert.’' Chinasec's on-line discussion group is secret, but not in the sense of that term denoted by the U.S. government classification. Most of Chinasec's participants hold high-level security clearances.At least 10 CIA officials are members. Chinasec is part of an informal but powerful network of current and former officials, academics and other China experts who exert a major influence on U.S. policies toward China.
The ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu wrote that “supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.’' The view of China presented by these pro-Beijing specialists is not manufactured by the Chinese Communist Politburo, but it serves the Politburo's strategy. The key theme of the propaganda directed abroad is simple: China is not a threat. The theme is central to the Chinese Communist Party's overt and covert influence efforts. It is the litmus test for those experts that Beijing labels “Friends of China.'' And it was a constant refrain of the Clinton administration.
Despite the soft-line approach, a public opinion poll last year showed that Mr. Clinton's policy of engagement had not convinced the majority of the American people that China is a benign power. The results of the Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll, published in September 1999, indicate that 60 percent to 80 percent consider China to be an “adversary,'' not a strategic partner. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2000/nov/17/20001117-013230-4014r/
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11/15/18 As China’s wealth has grown so has its sophistication at currying favor in Washington and among the American elite. Both the Chinese government and Chinese companies, often with close state ties, have retained lobbying and public-relations firms in the Beltway, in some cases hiring former U.S. officials as personal lobbyists.
Beijing has also learned how to harness its economic might by alternately opening its doors to companies who play by China’s rules and slamming the door on companies that go against its red lines. In some cases, this grants Beijing powerful sway over foreign companies with business interests in China. This has raised concerns that current U.S. government officials may have an eye on their future prospects in China even before leaving office. While it may seem politics as usual in Washington today, some are alarmed.
“Nobody in the 1980s would have represented the Russian government. And now you find so many lobbying for the Chinese government,” said
Below are some of the more prominent former U.S. politicians and officials whose have lobbied for China or whose business interests are closely connected to it.
Charles Boustany
Boustany served as the U.S. representative for Louisiana’s 3rd Congressional District until 2017 and co-chaired the U.S.-China working group. After leaving Congress, he joined the lobbying firm Capitol Counsel. Boustany has registered as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, representing the U.S.-China Transpacific Foundation, which is based in Las Vegas and is sponsored by the Chinese government. According to FARA filings, Capitol Counsel helps the foundation bring delegations of U.S. members of Congress to China to “enhance their understanding on the cultural, economic, political, and social developments of the People’s Republic of China, thus helping strengthen U.S.-China relations.” The foundation provided Capitol Counsel with an initial fee of $50,000 in late 2017, when the contract began.
John Boehner
The former House speaker joined Squire Patton Boggs after he retired from the House in 2015. The lobbying firm has long represented the Chinese embassy in Washington; Boehner serves “as a strategic adviser to clients in the U.S. and abroad, and will focus on global business development.” Boehner helped lead the effort to grant China most favored trading nation status in the late 1990s.
Jon Christenson
Christenson served as a U.S. representative from Nebraska from 1995 to 1999. Chinese telecom giant ZTE Corp hired him as a lobbyist after he left Congress. After the FBI investigation into ZTE’s violation of sanctions on Iran became public, Christenson resigned from his position there.
David Firestein
Firestein served as a career diplomat from 1992 to 2010. After leaving government, he joined the East-West Institute, where he spearheaded a series of dialogues between high-ranking political party leaders in the United States and China. In many of its dialogues, which bring U.S. leaders to China, the East-West Institute has partnered with the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation, which is closely connected to the United Front, a political-influence arm of the Chinese Communist Party; the institute has also partnered with a Chinese organization known to be a front for the People’s Liberation Army’s political-intelligence agency.
Firestein now serves as the director of the University of Texas at Austin’s China Public Policy Center. Firestein proposed forming a partnership between the China Public Policy Center and the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation. But under pressure from U.S. lawmakers concerned about Chinese influence, UT Austin decided to turn down the proposal this year.
Mike Holtzman
Holtzman worked in the executive office of the president as special adviser for public affairs to the U.S. trade ambassador under Bill Clinton, and later served as an adviser to the director of policy planning staff at the State Department under Colin Powell. Holtzman is now a partner at public-relations firm BLF Worldwide, where he managed the campaign for China’s bid to host the 2008 Olympics. Holtzman is registered as a foreign agent and represents the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation. According to FARA filings, in this role he will “provide services for the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation to promote its interests in the U.S., including expanding third-party supporters, generating media placements, arranging visits for delegations to China, and supporting CUSEF activity with the U.S.”
Donald (Andy) Purdy Jr.
As a White House staff member in the George W. Bush administration, Purdy helped draft a cybersecurity strategy in 2003 known as the U.S. National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace before moving to the Department of Homeland Security, where he helped craft cybersecurity initiatives and served as the lead cyber-official at DHS and the U.S. government; he later became the chief security officer for Huawei’s U.S. operations.
Ambassador Clark T. Randt, Jr.
Randt served as U.S. ambassador to China from 2001 to 2009. Since 2009, he has served as president of Randt and Co. LLC, which advises companies doing business in China. He is a special adviser of HOPU Jinghua (Beijing) Investment Consultancy Co., and sits on the advisory boards of numerous organizations with business interests closely tied to China, including Qualcomm, Wynn Resorts, and Valmont Industries.
Matt Salmon
Salmon served as U.S. representative for Arizona’s 5th Congressional District and chaired the Asia and the Pacific Subcommittee on the House Foreign Relations Committee. He retired from politics in 2016. He now serves as the vice president for government affairs at Arizona State University, where his position includes “working with the governments of other countries to advance international projects.”
Arizona State is home to a Confucius Institute, a Beijing-funded educational enterprise that Salmon has said brings around $200,000 a year to the university. At an April event in Washington, co-hosted by the Confucius Institute as it faced congressional scrutiny over threats to academic freedom on U.S. campuses, Salmon dismissed rising concerns about China as “McCarthyism” and said that the United States should work “with the only other superpower and not against it.”
James D. Wolfensohn
A former president of the World Bank Group, Wolfensohn has served as a member of the international advisory committee of the China Investment Corporation, China’s sovereign wealth fund. https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-the-us-officials-who-now-lobby-for-china
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The 2025 program was launched in 2015 and has been cited by the Trump administration to show that Beijing is engaged in a strategic program of stealing American know-how. The program is aimed at helping China dominate world markets in advanced technologies, including aerospace, information and communications technology, robotics, industrial machinery, new materials and automobiles.
Stanford said in a statement that Zhang was involved in quantum physics research related to interacting electrons. The research led to predictions of new phenomena and exotic states of matter. He took part in research on novel materials, quantum gravity and artificial intelligence.
The USTR report said China is using venture capital investment companies, including Danhua, as a new means of securing cutting-edge technologies and intellectual property from the United States. From January to May, Chinese venture capital investment reached nearly $2.4 billion, a record level….According to the report, Zhang’s company Danhua Capital, operating under the name Digital Horizon Capital, was funded by a state-owned Beijing government enterprise called Zhongguancun Development Group (ZDG).
“Other notable Chinese companies with state connections and strong interests in technology also allocated funds to Danhua Capital,” the report said. They include iFlyTek, a voice recognition company, and BOE Technology Group Co. Ltd. The controlling shareholder of BEO is the state-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the Beijing municipal government. In total, Danhua lists 113 U.S. companies in its portfolio, and most of those companies fall within emerging sectors and technologies (such as biotechnology and AI) that the Chinese government has identified as strategic priorities,” the report said. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/12/physicist-linked-to-china-program/
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-China’s J-20 stealth jet fighters appear to have knockoffs of two American jet fighter technologies. (Chaoji Da Benying)
2-20-2019 Last week one military website, the Beijing-based Chaoji Da Benying, revealed photos of China’s J-20 stealth jet fighter showing what appear to be knockoffs of two American jet fighter technologies.
An anonymous poster using the online handle “Pingtian” uploaded four photos of a new J-20 in its primer coating, a sign that it was freshly built. The photos revealed two J-20 capabilities deployed on the U.S. front-line fifth-generation stealth jet, the F-35. The first system shown in the photographs was said to be the J-20’s high-technology distributed aperture system, or DAS.
The Northrup Grumman AN/AAQ-37 DAS for the F-35 is touted by the company as “the only 360-degree, spherical situational awareness,” an electro-optical system that provides protection all around the aircraft and warns pilots of incoming aircraft or missile threats.
Now, apparently, the Chinese have one too. “The camera lens with a relatively large optical aperture in the nose comes with a reddish-purple plating/coating,” the Chinese posting said. “It resembles very much the F-35’s AN/AAQ-37 DAS.”
A second advanced capability for the J-20 revealed by the website is the Universal Water-Activated Release System, or UWARS. The system is a battery-powered, seawater-triggered electro-explosive device used by U.S. Navy and Air Force pilots and manufactured by several American companies. The system automatically disconnects the parachute canopy from an ejection seat pilot upon immersion in water. The system is designed to prevent pilots who ditch their planes from drowning as a result of their parachutes.
In pointing out the J-20 UWARS, the Chinese poster stated: “Getting our wish fulfilled. Finally see a plane equipped with Universal Water Activated Release System [UWARS]. The improved details show that our J-20 is finally going to reveal its majesty on the open sea.” China has engaged in massive U.S. technology theft for the past 20 to 30 years, according to U.S. officials. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/20/chinese-jet-shows-off-us-tech/
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