Aid-Africa, UN & Communist Bloc, Pakistan-Iran-Nuclear, China-US-Canada & Spy Companies, Microsoft & Censorship

U.S. taking harder line toward China — on all fronts Sol Sanders, June 9, 05

Sol W. Sanders, (solsanders@comcast.net), is an Asian specialist with more than 25 years in the region, and a former correspondent for Business Week, U.S. News & World Report and United Press International. He writes weekly for World Tribune.com.

In a speech to strategists gathered in Singapore, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld asked the big question. “Since no nation threatens China, one must wonder: Why this growing investment? Why these continuing large and expanding arms purchases? Why these continuing robust deployments?” Rumsfeld went on to talk about the failure of Chinese leadership to offer political participation to its people. That, he said, has proved in other parts of the world to be the only way to produce stable and friendly relations with other powers. But, in fact, Beijing has begun a new crackdown on dissidents and internet communications.

3,500 Chinese spy companies identified in Canada and U.S Aug 7, 2003, Asian Pacific News Service

[. . . . ] The FBI is warning lawmakers that China has more than 3,000 "front" companies in the US whose real purpose is to direct espionage efforts. In Canada, similar warnings involving an estimated 500 firms have fallen on deaf ears. The situation is now being called the most significant threat to North America's security.

When Canada‘s Nortel Telecommunications based in Brampton, Ontario wanted to do business in China, they hired Katrina Leung‘s company — Merry Glory Ltd.

Little did they know that 49-year-old corporate matchmaker would be in the limelight several years later accused of having have slept her way into the good graces of two FBI agents while stealing secrets for the Chinese government.

Leung, who was paid $1.2 million in 1995 and 1996 for negotiating the Nortel-China deal, has strong connections to Canada‘s Chinese business associations.

Around the same time, the modern day Matahari was greasing the way for Nortel, the Canadian spy agency — CSIS — was conducting an investigation in the offices of Ontario Hydro regarding the theft of information in the nuclear technology field by ‘an individual of Chinese origin‘.

According to a secret intelligence report obtained by The Asian Pacific Post, the individual sent unauthorized faxes, some containing hours worth of data, to a telephone number in the offices of the State Science and Technology Commission of China.

The report said that there were two other cases where Canadian companies have alleged that their employees had been selling industrial secrets to China.

Like other ambitious young men who based their businesses in Hong Kong, James Ting was a citizen of the world, an entrepreneur who constructed a universe of interrelated companies and finances from Toronto to Tokyo to New York.

Ting was a darling of the Chinese-Canadian trade lobby. Even the Prime Minister‘s Office website lists Ting‘s Semi-Tech, once ranked as the nation‘s 10th largest employer, as a member of Team Canada?s [sic] business deals with China.

On the flip side, spy watchers were warning Ottawa without much success, that Ting was China‘s frontman to acquire high and medium technology and engage in economic and industrial espionage.

Among the companies Semi-Tech showed as part of its organization were several Chinese state-owned companies, related to military and intelligence activities obviously using what seemed to be a Canadian consumer based company as cover. [. . . . ]

Check: Do you recognize those in the photos accompanying this article?

Thanks to Jack's Newswatch for posting a link to this yesterday.




Microsoft censors Chinese portal blogs Curt Woodward, AP, Jun. 14, 05

SEATTLE (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is cooperating with China's government to censor the company's newly launched Chinese-language Web portal, a spokesman for the tech giant said.

The policy affects Web logs, or blogs, created through the MSN Spaces service, said Adam Sohn, a global sales and marketing director at MSN. [. . . . ]

MSN China is a joint venture with Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd., an investment company funded by the Chinese government. Shanghai Alliance invests in new economic development in Shanghai and other parts of China.

China's estimated online population is 87 million, second only to the United States.

The Canadian government is encouraging business with an authoritarian and oppressive regime such as China's. While, admittedly, free trade eventually acts like the tides in that it raises all boats, in the meantime, many of our own boats are being swamped, along with the rowers. (e.g. Canada's textile industry)




Mounties uncover 'Al Qaeda' cache -- Plans, tapes diaries seized at Pearson --Zaynab Khadr denies they belong to her Michelle Shephard, June 14, 05

OTTAWA—The RCMP and Canadian military believe they've discovered a vital cache of information on Al Qaeda that includes the whereabouts of wanted members and details of attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan.

The information is allegedly contained in a laptop, dozens of DVDs, audiocassettes and the pages of diaries, seized by the RCMP officers who met Zaynab Khadr at Pearson airport with a search warrant as she arrived back in Canada in February, court documents state. [. . . . ]

Sheikh Palazzi on CAIR and CAIR-Canada Posted by IsraPundit on 21:56:42 2005/05/31 -- or check IsraPundit

An IsraPundit e-interview with Prof Palazzi

Recently, the press reported about three issues related to Islam: the State Department representative talk to CAIR, the Oriana Fallaci affair, and the desecration of the Koran in Guantanamo. I asked Sheikh Palazzi to comment on the three issues, and with his permission, I am posting his responses below.

[. . . . ] IsraPundit: Similarly, is there an established connection between CAIR Canada and terrorist organizations?

Sheikh Palazzi: In contrast with what happened with CAIR U.S., no criminal charges have ever been filed against CAIR Canada or any of its officers. Even so, the links between the two organizations do exist, and are not limited to the name. On its Web site and in its publications, CAIR lists CAIR Canada as one of its local affiliates, giving it the same status as a state or regional CAIR chapter. On December 30, 2004, both CAIR and CAIR Canada were named as defendants in 9/11 Terror Lawsuit. One reads therein: "Council on American Islamic Relations and CAIR Canada [ ] have aided, abetted, and materially sponsored and al Qaeda and international terrorism. CAIR is an outgrowth of the Hamas front group the Islamic Association of Palestine. The FBI's former associate director in charge of Investigative and Counter-Intelligence Operations described the Islamic Association of Palestine as an organization that has directly supported Hamas military goals and is a front organization for Hamas that engages in propaganda for Islamic militants. It has produced videotapes that are very hate-filled, full of vehement propaganda. It is an organization that has supported direct confrontation []. CAIR and CAIR-Canada have, since their inception, been part of the criminal conspiracy of radical Islamic terrorism. These organizations play a unique role in the terrorist network. They emanate from the notorious HAMAS terrorist organization and like so many of the terrorism facilitating charities named and indicted by the United States government they are engaged in fund raising under the guise of assisting humanitarian causes they are, in reality, a key player in international terrorism."

I hope the related trial will contribute to make the connections between CAIR, CAIR Canada, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood even more evident and documented. [. . . . ]

Aid and debt relief won't help Africa, head of pro-business think tank says

Sending billions in aid to Africa is like pouring water "into leaky bowls," says the head of an African pro-market think-tank.

UN & the Communist Bloc

Bolton's Bravery by Ion Mihai Pacepa -- or the original article here

[. . . . ] I spent two decades of my other life as a Communist spy chief, struggling to transform the U.N. into a kind of international socialist republic. The Communist bloc threw millions of dollars and thousands of people into that gigantic project. According to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, all employees from Eastern Bloc nations were involved in espionage. The task of this espionage army was not to steal secrets but to use the U.N. to convert the historical Arab and Islamic hatred of the Jews into a new hatred for Israel’s main supporter, the United States. The U.N. became our petri dish, in which we nurtured a virulent strain of hatred for America, grown from the bacteria of Communism, anti-Semitism, nationalism, jingoism, and victimology. [. . . . ]

Iranian nuclear chief admits ties to Pakistan -- Promises more uranium enrichment if EU talks fail Preston Mendenhall, NBC, Jun. 15, 05

[. . . . ] In an exclusive interview with NBC News, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Gholamreza Aghazadeh, acknowledged Pakistan's help.

[. . . . ] U.S. intelligence says those intermediaries were part of a network headed by A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear program. Officials believe Khan earned more than $50 million selling nuclear expertise as well as equipment to Libya, North Korea and Iran. All are on the U.S. terrorist list. [. . . . ]

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