Chinese deploy ‘threatening’ new missile

In an apparent disinformation campaign, China fooled the Clinton
administration into believing one of its nuclear missiles was a
“failure,” when actually, in the words of one congressional defense
analyst, “it is the most threatening missile deployed since the Cold
War.”

In 1992, Hua Di, a former Chinese missile scientist who defected to
the U.S, told the U.S. government the new “DONG FENG” (East Wind) DF-25
— a mobile two-stage missile capable of hurling a conventional
4,000-pound warhead over 1,000 miles — was too expensive to be
deployed.

Yet in August 1999, Clinton officials were shocked by Chinese
Communist press announcements declaring the DF-25 to be fully
operational and tipped with multiple nuclear warheads, states William
Triplett, co-author of “Red Dragon Rising.” Triplett’s newly published
book is rocking Capitol Hill and has put the White House on the
defensive, trying to explain its acceptance of the Chinese defector and
his disinformation.

Communist “defector” Hua Di studied missiles in Russia and worked in
China’s missile program for 24 years. In 1989, Hua left China after the
Tiananmen Square crackdown on student democracy demonstrators, and went
to work as a researcher at Stanford University’s Center for
International Security and Arms Control with Dr. John Lewis and Dr.
William Perry.

In 1992, Hua and Lewis published “China’s Ballistic Missile Program,”
in which Hua claimed a newly developed missile, the DF-25, was not a
success.

“The Chinese fooled Clinton into believing it would not be deployed,”
said Triplett in an exclusive WorldNetDaily interview. “The DF-25 is
called the ‘Japan’ missile. It can cover all of the Japanese islands,
the Spratleys and the sea entry routes.”

According to Triplett, the DF-25 “improved” version can drop its
two-ton warhead within feet of its intended target.

Defense sources inside and outside of Capitol Hill confirmed
Triplett’s stunning news. One source went further, and directly accused
a major U.S. defense contractor of deliberately passing to China
sensitive missile technology that is now incorporated in the DF-25.

“This missile is purely offensive,” stated Robert Fisher, a defense
analyst for Rep. Chris Cox, R-Ca. “It is the most threatening missile
deployed since the Cold War. It is intended to start a war.”

According to Fisher, U.S. guidance technology acquired by China is so
accurate that the DF-25 can select a “window” on any target building and
strike it from over 1,000 miles away.

“The DF-25 most likely uses both U.S. GPS (satellite navigation) and
radar technology for its accuracy. However, it is powered by American
military rocket motor technology given to the Chinese Army by Lockheed
Martin,” stated Fisher.

“Chinese missiles are now more accurate, thanks to the transfer of
Lockheed Martin solid fuel technology,” added Fisher.

Fisher also noted that missile documents written by Chinese defector
Hua Di were “gospel” to Clinton administration officials. “They
frequently quote Hua’s work,” he stated firmly.

Fisher is not the first to accuse Lockheed of passing advanced
technology to China during the Clinton administration. According to
Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy
Education Center, in 1995 Lockheed Martin “completed coupled load
analysis on kick motors” for the Chinese AsiaSat satellite space
program.

In 1998, Sokolski wrote an analysis of U.S. missile technology sold
to China, in which he said the Lockheed “kick motor’s development could
help China perfect a post boost vehicle (PBV) to deliver warheads
against nations armed with missile defenses.”

Sokolski also accused Lockheed of transferring sensitive U.S.
technology to China for Motorola’s bankrupt Iridium satellite system.
According to Sokolski, Lockheed “validated Chinese upper stage
separation technology, vibrational and load coupling analysis, attitude
control, and payload mounting.”

Furthermore, the so-called Chinese defector who first drew attention
to the DF-25 has also been involved in a previous transfer of advanced
U.S. military technology to China. Clinton Defense Sec. Dr. William
Perry worked closely with Hua, bringing the defector inside the highest
levels of the Defense Dept.

However, according to Defense Dept. documents, Hua, Perry and Lewis
shared much more than missile stories. In 1992, Chinese Commission of
Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND) Lt. Gen.
Huai Guomo contacted Hua inside America. Gen. Huai wanted to start a
joint U.S.-China business venture called Galaxy New Technology.

According to Defense documents, in 1994, PLA Gen. “Madam” Nie Li,
wife of COSTIND commander General Ding Henggao, served on the board of
Galaxy New Technology along with Lewis. At the same time, according to
Commerce Dept. documents, Lewis also met with Gen. Huai Guomo and Gen.
Ding Henggao, serving as a civilian “consultant” to Perry, during a trip
to Beijing.

Thus, Lewis appears to have been employed by both the U.S. military
and the Chinese military at the same meeting.

Hua described himself as the “matchmaker” between COSTIND’s Gen. Huai
Guomo and Dr. Lewis during an interview for the Far Eastern Economic
Review. Hua’s close association with the Chinese Army unit COSTIND also
drew the attention of the General Accounting Office (GAO).

In 1996, the GAO wrote a report on the sale of an advanced
fiber-optic communications system to Galaxy New Technology. The GAO
confirmed the fiber-optic system was actually sold directly to the
Chinese Army. According to the Far Eastern Economic Review, Perry, the
U.S. defense secretary, wrote a personal letter on behalf of Lewis,
favoring the sale to China.

In late October 1998, the New York Times announced that Hua had
returned to China. According to the Times, Hua had met with Chinese
security officials in late 1997 and was assured that he would not be
prosecuted. On Dec. 31, 1997, Hua returned to China, and on Jan. 6,
1998, was arrested and charged with passing state secrets to U.S.
officials. Stanford officials and Lewis have written to the Chinese
government appealing for Hua’s release.

Yet, the advisor to the leading Republican candidate questions
whether Hua was indeed a defector. Condoleezza Rice, foreign policy
consultant to presidential candidate George W. Bush, investigated
allegations that Stanford University resources were used illegally by
Hua Di and Dr. John Lewis. Rice noted there was evidence that Hua was
an approved agent of the Chinese government.

Lewis “had provided evidence to the fact that the source materials
for publications written by him and Mr. Hua were provided by approved
Chinese authorities,” said Rice.

“If the PLA fooled Clinton and Gore on this one,” said Triplett,
“just how good are the rest of our missile estimates?”