During the first four years of the Clinton administration, People’s
Liberation Army Gen. Ding Henggao, along with his top two PLA
assistants, Lt. Gen. Huai Guomo and Lt. Gen. Shen Rougjun, raided U.S.
technology on a scale never before imagined.
Some of these fantastic exploits against the Clinton administration
are documented in the Cox report, dealing with the theft of nose cone
technology from Hughes — largely Shen’s handiwork. Likewise, some of
Huai’s handiwork can be found in a 1996 General Accounting Office report
on the transfer of an advanced AT&T fiber-optic network to a PLA-owned
company called Galaxy New Technology.
However, few details on the direct relationship between their
commander, Gen. Ding and top Clinton officials are covered in the
Western press. Some of these lesser-publicized facts include the fact
that in 1994 Bill Clinton began a program to transfer American military
technology directly to the PLA. One such documented transfer began in an
August 1994 meeting between the PLA warlords and Clinton administration
officials in Beijing.
The Chinese army side of the August 1994 meeting included top PLA
officers such as Ding and Huai, who were accompanied by Gen. Deng
Yousheng and Maj. Gen. Hou Gang, the deputy director of the Intelligence
Department, Headquarters of General Staff of the PLA.
The August 1994 PLA meeting also included an exclusive club of U.S.
academia, selected by the Clinton administration to join a “U.S./Chinese
Defense Conversion Commission,” then run by Defense Secretary Dr.
William Perry and Gen. Ding. Some of the other U.S. invitees included
Commerce Deputy Undersecretary Dr. Barry Carter, a former law professor
from Georgetown University, Dr. Eden Woon, the Executive Secretary for
DOD Secretary Perry, and Dr. John Lewis, listed as a “Stanford
University Civilian Consultant to SecDef.”
Perry, Carter and Lewis have all refused to comment on the meetings
with Ding and Chinese generals. Eden Woon, however, agreed to an
exclusive interview from his new home in Hong Kong.
Woon left America in May 1997 to become the Director of the Hong Kong
Chamber of Commerce, a position in which he currently represents over
2,000 businesses located in China and Hong Kong. Eden Woon is an
American citizen, a former officer in the U.S. military, former advisor
to Secretary of Defense Perry and former Chairman of Washington State
China Relations Council. He agreed to be interviewed directly after
returning from a business mission to Beijing — clearly concerned that
U.S.-China relations were going to affect Hong Kong.
“It is something Hong Kong is concerned about,” said Woon. “In
general, whenever China relations are bad, that also affects Hong Kong.
On the political level things are not very good.
“They (the Chinese communist officials) mentioned that unless the
atmosphere improves, then they don’t even want to get back to the WTO
(World Trade Organization) negotiation table. They want to know if the
embassy bombing was really an accident or whether it was on purpose. You
have a conspiracy theory circulating that makes it difficult to dispel
the notion that it was not
Clinton, but some sort of rogue operation.”
The Chinese are not alone in “conspiracy” theories. Nolanda Hill
testified under oath that her lover and business partner, Ron Brown,
feared for his life because of his dealings with the
Chinese army. It is clear now that after the August 1994 meeting with
Ding, DOD Secretary Perry ordered Brown to engage the PLA in
“commercial” activities — an order which is documented in a January
1995 letter to Brown from Perry. Perry also wrote Ding, informing him
that Brown would assist the Chinese army in the “Defense Conversion”
project.
According to Woon, “there was a lot of criticism back in the states
about how this was helping the PLA. All the controversy started and
some, frankly, dishonest reporting came up, which was not true, linking
Dr. Lewis or Dr. Perry in ways that are, frankly, not correct.”
John Lewis, said Woon, “was invited to come because he was interested
in defense conversion. He (Lewis) got Dr. Perry started on this. When we
went to China to sign the first agreement for the first cooperation, Dr.
Lewis was invited.”
Of course, by August 1994, Lewis had teamed with Ding’s wife, Madam
Nie Li in a very profitable joint “business” venture called “Hua Mei.”
(Interestingly, Madam Nie Li is, like her husband, also a PLA general.)
Lewis ran the U.S.-China venture that led to the transfer of an
advanced, encrypted, fiber-optic communications system being sold
directly to a company owned by the PLA.
Lewis was a paid consultant to the U.S. Defense Department, while
also being executive director of the U.S. side of the “Hua Mei” joint
venture. Thus, Lewis earned income from both the Chinese and U.S. Army
— at the same time.
Yet, Dr. Woon also noted that there were several others in the U.S.
delegation not listed on the official attendance. “Also invited on the
same trip and same status was Chas Freeman,” said Woon. “(Former)
Assistant Secretary of Defense, one of the first or perhaps the first to
revive the military relationship after Tiananmen. He left government
before October 1994. He was also invited to come back as an observer.”
According to documents forced from the Clinton administration by a
federal lawsuit, the Commerce Department directly engaged Chinese army
and air force generals in an effort to upgrade PLA military air
defenses. One example of “military” commerce involved is in a letter to
PLA Gen. Huai Guomo, from Commerce Deputy Undersecretary Barry Carter.
“In our opinion, the key to rapid involvement of U.S. industry in
China is the development of a national civil/military strategy
for modernization of Chinese airspace control,” wrote
Dr. Carter in his November 1994 letter to Gen. Huai (emphasis added).
“Without a broad plan for harmonizing civil and military
requirements,” Carter wrote to Huai, “any equipment acquisitions and
installations run the risk of resulting in incompatible systems that
will not satisfy your national objectives.”
“We would like to help you develop your ATC plan,” wrote Carter in
his letter to Huai. “As a follow-up to the October Commission meetings,
the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator will lead a
delegation of senior aviation policy experts on a visit to Beijing. …
I ask your support to ensure they have the opportunity to meet with the
key Chinese players — both military and civil — while in
China.”
Interestingly, according to a letter sent to Defense Intelligence
Agency Lt. Col. Blasko, Carter noted that Woon had suggested the letter
to Huai. Woon, according to Carter’s fax to Blasko, reviewed the letter
and approved its content.
Carter’s message to Blasko states, “Dear Dennis — First it was a
pleasure to meet and talk with you in Beijing. … Accompanying this is
a letter from me to Vice Minister Huai Guomo of COSTIND. It is a
follow-up to the Defense Conversion Commission meeting. Eden Woon
suggested that I write the letter, and I cleared the contents with him.
Eden said I should ask you to forward it to the Vice Minister.”
The 1994 letter to Blasko was copied to Eden Woon by Carter in a
following fax transmission. Carter wrote to Woon on the copy attachment,
“Eden — FYI. Here is what I faxed to Lt. Col. Blasko last week. … My
Best, Barry.”
By June 1995, Dr. Woon would leave Dr. Perry and the Defense Dept.
However, he remained in direct contact with PLA generals and Dr. Barry
Carter.
In June 1995, Carter would officially provide a list of PLA companies
and contacts to Dr. Eden Woon, Executive Director of the Washington
State China Relations Council (WSCRC) and
Director of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. WSCRC includes
major corporate sponsors such as Northwest Airlines, Boeing, Microsoft
and the law firm of Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds.
By December 1995, Woon and the WSCRC would host a delegation of
Chinese army representatives from PLA-owned companies. Woon took them on
a tour of the Washington State companies anxious to do business with the
Chinese army.
The 1995 delegation to Washington State included “Feng Hui, Staff
officer” of the COSTIND “Foreign Affairs Dep’t.” Feng Hui is better
known as Maj. Feng Hui of the Chinese army. Feng was accompanied by
other officers from the PLA unit COSTIND, and a host of engineering
specialists from various PLA-owned companies, including “Chengdu
Aircraft plant,” the “Jiangnan Shipyard” and “No. 614 Institute,” a PLA
institute staffed by weapons experts.
In 1997, Woon and WSCRC sponsored a conference that included U.S.
Senator Patty Murray, D-Wash. On October 14, 1997, at the close of the
conference, the participants issued a report that states, “The U.S.
should ensure that Taiwan understands that if conflicts arise
(especially if apparently provoked by Taiwan), it cannot necessarily
count on the U.S. coming to the rescue.”
In 1999, Woon remains close to the PLA and the communist leaders in
Beijing. According to Woon, the Cox report has forced the PLA to clean
up its corruption and change the way it does business.
“The PLA businesses are mostly in areas that have nothing to do with
the military,” said Dr. Woon. “They (the generals) were running motels,
restaurants, soda pop factories, and trucking
fleets. … The business the central government wanted them to get out
of because it was leading to corruption and a lack of discipline. They
wanted a professional military that were soldiers and not businessmen.”
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