The Encirclement Of America

(The China threat in the backyard)

By Hilmar von Campe

“Intelligence agencies missed Chinese buildup” was the headline for a report from Bill Gertz, which was published by the Washington Times in their edition of June 13-19, 2005 . Gertz referred to a highly classified intelligence report for the new director for national intelligence, which concludes that the US spy agencies failed to recognize several key military developments in China in the past decade.  

What they missed was China’s development of a new long-range missile, the deployment of a new warship with a stolen version of the US Aegis battle management technology, deployment of a new attack submarine known as the Yuan class, development of precision-guided advanced munitions of various types, development for surface to surface missiles for targeting U.S. carrier battle groups, the importation of advanced weaponry, including Russian submarines, warships and fighter-bombers. “The Ju Lang-2 missile poses a great threat to the U.S. because it has a better precision and guidance and is harder to detect”, stated Weng Ming-hsien, professor from the Institute of Strategic Studies at the Tamkang University, Taiwan. Taiwan should be armed to the teeth by the United States .  

Apparently there is a group of China specialists within the intelligence community, “who for the past 10 years dismissed or played down intelligence showing that Beijing was engaged in a major military buildup”, and in reporting developments “conceal the efforts of dissenting analysts who argued that China was a threat.”  

I find it extraordinary that there is even a discussion about whether China is a threat or not. You need not be a China specialist to define China as a major threat to the United States , as the facts of this report should make it clear to everybody, but you must have  moral criteria. If these specialists don’t have moral integrity their analysis will be wholly inadequate as it was proven to be. I find it also extraordinary that within the political leadership anybody should have any doubt about the nature and aspirations of China . The same applies to Russia . I shudder at the thought in what direction these ignorants in Washington are leading this nation if they are that confused. The question, which comes to my mind, is whether there are moles a la Alger Hiss in the intelligence community, who attempt to mislead the political leadership and bring down their own nation.  

I have been suspicious of the CIA for a long time. When the late Major General Jan Sejna in 1968 defected from Czechoslovakia he was not once seriously debriefed by the CIA. Sejna was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, a member of Parliament and its presidium, first party secretary at the ministry of defense (where he also was chief of staff), a member of the Minister’s Council, and most important of all, secretary of the Defense Council, the top decision-making body in matters of defense, foreign policy, intelligence, and economy. He was present in the Soviet Security Council meetings with representatives of all the Warsaw Pact States, which led to make drugs a major weapon in bringing down America and Europe . Khrushchev made it 1962 official Soviet government policy obligatory for all Eastern European countries as well. This policy included the infiltration and takeover of criminal organization and drug-distribution cartels around the world but especially in Latin-America. There can only be two reasons for any intelligence service not trying to get as much information as possible out of such a high ranking and well informed defector – treason or stupidity. Again, both make me shudder. It is fatal if intelligence tailors information to political purposes.  

The policy, which Khrushchev installed is not only still in place but must have advanced tremendously. In May of this year 2005 my friend Paul Trog wrote from Brazil, “ on our recent trip to the South of Brazil (Febr./March of this year), I started to worry after reading in ‘Zero Hora’, one of the leading papers of Porto Alegre, that the ABIM, Brazil’s CIA, was planning to send some of their agents for training to Cuba.. Havana ’s Secret Services has in its employ several Russian former KGB trainers that were to participate in the program. The same information was published in the ‘Corrio do Povo’, also of Porto Alegre , and in the ‘Folha de Sao Paulo’.  

My worries were considerably enhanced after ‘Veja’, the Time Magazine of Brazil, prominently published in its editions of March 16^th 05 and March 23^rd 05 that the FARC of Colombia (a narco-terrorist army that threatens the democratically elected government of that country), had funneled millions of Dollars to Lulas’ Partido Trabalista (PT) during the last elections (2002) which Lula won. In secret meetings at a ranch near Brasilia, the unofficial ambassador of  FARC to Brazil, Father Medina, a catholic priest, had offered the money and outlined the transaction methods in detail. This information was submitted to the ABIM by one of its agents who were present at the meetings. At that point, however, that information was buried in a top secret file and was successfully suppressed. Nevertheless, early this year, there was a ‘vasamento’ (leak) and the ABIM had to confirm the veracity of the report, to the discomfiture of its head, General Felix.  

I remember that in the Sixties, Khrushchev had secretly ordered the infiltration of all the existing criminal organizations of the world, in order to satiate the West and our soldiers then in Viet Nam , with narcotics – and thus undermine the bourgeois democracies. Narco-terrorism is a result of that policy. It undermines and subverts with drugs and money to this day.  

We visited also some friends and relatives in Ijui, a little town of approx. 100,000 inhabitants located in the Serra of Rio Grande do Sul. Ijui has a University founded by the Capucin Brotherhood, which is far to the left by reputation. We were informed that a full dozen of Russian professors were employed there.  

End of March, I believe, Secretary Rumsfeld was objecting to the fact that the government of Venezuela bought 100,000 AK 47 rifles with plans to divert this equipment to the FARC.  

I worry that while our attention is rightly directed towards our terrorist enemies in the Middle East , a big problem is developing unobserved, in South and Central America . No, Communism in not dead, it has mutated and is just as dangerous as before.”  

In Brazil , Cuba , and Venezuela there are hard core Communists as heads of state. To the Left are the presidents of Argentine, Nestor Kirchner, who only recently re-established diplomatic relations with Cuba, Tabere Varquez in Uruguay, the first Socialist president in the history of this country, Ricardo Lagos in Chile, who belonged to the Allende crowd and who was host to East German Communist leader, Honecker, when he went into exile, and Alejandro Toledo in Peru, whose main characteristic are big talk and complete incompetence. The socialist government establishments in Chile and in the Argentine are busy destroying their armed forces by subverting and changing the law in order to eliminate those who could threaten their hold on power.  

Then there is Columbia with a civil war, which no government seems to be able to win. The FARC has become a multinational crime syndicate according to Jorge Noguera, head of Columbia ’s secret police. Carrying out extortion rackets, training others in kidnapping and providing drugs. Unstable situations, which can deteriorate any time, exist in Bolivia , Ecuador , Nicaragua and Haiti . Belize is full of Chinese.  

The communist parties of nearly all Latin-America countries are members of the Sao Paulo Forum, which were created 1990 under the official sponsorship of Fidel Castro and Lula da Silva, then president of Brazil ’s Communist Workers Party. It is a continuation of the Havanna Tricontinental Conference, set in motion by the Politburo of the Soviet Union in 1964. General Sejna knew every detail of this institution, which included representatives of Communist parties, revolutionary organization, and terrorist groups from all parts of the world. Cuba became the chief center of terrorist training, under the direction of KGB Colonel Vadim Kochergine and 10,000 Soviet advisors, according to the magazine The New American.     

The New American in its January 2005 edition gives a detailed report by William F. Jasper with the title “Communism’s Resurgence”, part of which I use in this article. It is about developments in Latin-America and especially about the links of Venezuela under Chavez with the Columbian FARC, terrorist organizations including Osama bin Laden, and Communist countries. Because of its huge oil reserves Venezuela carries a lot of weight around the world and is far more dangerous to the United States than Cuba . Jaspers quotes Chavez with “I have been very Maoist all my life.” He views Mao’s program as model for Venezuela . Venezuela has a contract with Russia for $5 billion in armaments. If any government should be taken out in defense of freedom it should be the Venezuelan as long as there is still an opposition in the country.  

.The Latin-American left leadership, the Chinese Communists, and the Arab terrorist and/or their sponsors are teaming up. At the beginning of May an Arabic-South-American summit took place in the Brazilian capital Brasilia . Also Arab Palestinenser President Mahmud Abbas was present. The summit was opened by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who attacked the “subventions of the rich nations” and social inequalities. The main theme at the conference was to gain more economic independence from Europe and the United States . That of course is just the double-speak for the formation of an anti-American alliance, which is based on hatred. The participating nations decided to intensify economic, cultural and technological exchanges and coordinate their positions in international economic and commerce issues. The “right of states and people to resist foreign occupation” was part of the platform decided upon. With other words, Abbas received endorsement for past and future terrorism. I remind those who regularly read my articles that I have already earlier clarified that there has never existed an Arab Palestinians state but that there has been for thousands of years an Israel state of Jewish Palestinians. It is the Arabs who occupy Israeli territory.  

 There are different reasons for the hatred, but it is all directed against America . Sheikh Ibrahim Mudeiris, the Palestine Authority’s religious leader declared in his sermon on May 13 according to the Palestinian Media Watch, “The final stage of history will be the domination of all Christian countries by Islam and the extermination of all Jews,” He is of the opinion that Israel has no right to exist. I have not heard, that Abbas rebutted that statement.  

The Chinese President, Hu Jintao, visited Brazil in November of 2004, where he began his Latin American tour, to confirm China ’s commitment to a strategic relationship with Brazil . He promised investments of $5-7 billion. He and President Lula predicted that China would replace the United States as Brazil ’s top trading partner. In the Argentine he promised investments of $20 billion and also confirmed China ’s commitment to their strategic partnership. He also visited Chile , where he established commercial links between the two countries, and Cuba , where I suppose he discussed with Castro how to take down the United States .  

The Panama Canal is already in the hands of China . Now China sets out to deprive the United States from their oil supply. On January 20, 2005 13 agreements of the Statement on Energy Cooperation were signed in Beijing by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabo and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, pledging cooperation in oil and gas, minerals and other sectors.  

China ’s biggest state-owned oil companies, Petro-China and Sinopec, will contract to purchase oil from the Athabasca sands of Alberta . The oil is not in underground wellspring of liquid crude, but a vast expanse of oil-soaked sands and clays of several of that province’s rivers. The reserves of crude oil from these sands are estimated to be 300 billion barrels. That tops Saudi Arabia ’s reserves.  

The Chinese will acquire a controlling participation in a Calgary based Canadian energy company that is developing successfully a pair of oil sand sites. Also state-owned China Minmetals, Inc. has negotiated to buy Toronto-based resources and mining giant Noranda. More than 100 individual trading agreements have been inked between Chinese and Canadian companies - not only in oil but also in energy, resources, technology and agriculture.  

A Canadian 720 miles oil pipeline from northern Alberta west to the British Columbia coast is being planned which should have the capacity to transport 400,000 barrels of oil per day to serve China ’s demand for oil. The Canadian energy company has offered state-owned Chinese interests a 49% ownership in this huge pipeline.  

In May 2004 the Brazilian oil company Petrobras and China Petrochemical Corporation signed an agreement for a joint exploration of Brazilian offshore oil resources. The two companies agreed to cooperate on all aspects of petroleum production: extraction, refinement, sales and transportation.  

Venezuela , the fifth largest oil exporter in the world, sells half of his oil production to the United States , but Chaves made it clear, that he wants to divert part of it to China . Additionally the two nations signed 19 agreements, allowing Chinese companies greater access to 15 Venezuelan oil fields. The plans include Chinese investments in both oil and gas mining projects. China has signed 48 oil and resource investment and cooperation contracts with 20 supplier nations.  

We also need to remember that our Arab energy providers are doubtful friends.  

This is only the tip of the iceberg. The hour is very late. What is our government doing?  And what is little me doing? Painting the cabin, whilst the ship goes down, it seems.

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