Clinton: Communist China's Candidate of Choice - 2

The Lady And The Nuclear Dragon

By INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY
October 29, 2007 4:20 PM PT

National Security: Beijing is aggressively targeting the United States with nukes and deploying spies to steal our security secrets. What would Commander in Chief Hillary Clinton do?

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If a new policy paper she's published in Foreign Affairs is any clue, she would simply follow the lead of her husband, who enabled the communist Chinese at every turn.

Like Bill, Hillary would pursue a hippie "denuclearization" policy that ends testing of nuclear weapons in our stockpile, while slashing the budget for developing defense systems to protect the U.S. from incoming enemy ICBMs.

She slams the Bush administration for, among other things, "focusing obsessively on expensive and unproven missile defense technology."

But there's good reason for that obsession. The Pentagon recently warned that China's long-range missile force has grown substantially in the past few years, and now includes a mobile, land-based ICBM that could reach anywhere in America.

"China has at least 10 varieties of ballistic missiles deployed or in development and is qualitatively improving some of its older systems with improved range, mobility and accuracy," the sobering report said, adding that they're "capable of targeting the continental United States."

It's no accident that China suddenly gained the capacity to launch pre-emptive nuclear strikes against us. It happened on President Clinton's watch, when he systematically dismantled security at Los Alamos and other defense labs as part of his naive "engagement policy" with Beijing.

Chinese spies infested the labs and stole technological know-how on five warheads and design codes to two others, including the Pentagon's crown jewel, the W-88 lightweight mini-warhead fired from nuclear subs.

In doing so, the Cox Commission found, the Chinese saved a tremendous amount of time and money and were able to improve their nuclear arsenal so it could more reliably threaten U.S. cities in a showdown over Taiwan.

Islamic terror is getting all the headlines these days, as it should. But absent 9/11, China's military buildup and foul play around the world would rank as the No. 1 national security threat.

Recent Chinese spy scandals at the CIA and FBI, as well as continued leaks at the labs, show we're losing the espionage war against Beijing. China also recently hacked into the Pentagon's computer, a brazen cyberattack that set off alarms throughout the intelligence community.

And there's real concern that Beijing — the worst proliferator of nuclear missile technology in the world — might share it with other countries, including terrorist states like Iran and Sudan.

Despite all these concerns, Hillary Clinton wants to re-establish her husband's "strategic partnership" with China, making it clear to us that she would be dangerously incapable of taming the nuclear dragon rising from the Pacific.

"There is much that the United States and China can and must accomplish together," she said in her Foreign Affairs piece, failing to mention the growing nuclear threat the communists pose.

"Although the United States must stand ready to challenge China when its conduct is at odds with U.S. vital interests," she added, "we should work for a cooperative future."

Recent history, however, shows that the Chinese are not going to be cooperative partners of the U.S. — unless we want a partner that's going to loot our technology and use it against us.