Where the Right Went Wrong by Patrick J. Buchanan

Author:Patrick J. Buchanan
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780312341152
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

THE ENABLERS

Three nations have been indispensable to the modernization of China’s arsenal: Russia, Israel, and the United States. From Russia, China is buying fourth-generation aircraft, destroyers, submarines, antiship missiles, and the technology for medium-range ballistic missiles.

According toWashington Times reporter Bill Gertz, China has bought from Belarus a chassis for the SS-20, the Soviet mobile missile whose sudden appearance in Eastern Europe impelled Reagan to deploy nuclear-armed Pershing and cruise missiles in Western Europe.

According to Gertz and Richard Fisher, Israel has provided China with

• Technology for battlefield laser weapons to shoot down missiles.

• Technology for the U.S. Patriot antimissile missile.

• AWACS technology, specifically the Phalcon phased-array radar.

• Lavi fighter technology now used in China’s J-10 attack planes.

• STAR-1 cruise missile technology that incorporates U.S. stealth technology.

• The Python, an Israeli stepchild of the Sidewinder we gave to Tel Aviv. The Chinese fighters that intercepted our EP-3 over the South China Sea, one of which requested permission to shoot it down, were armed with Pythons.

• The Harpy drone that flies over enemy radar sites for hours until they lock on to the unmanned vehicle. Then the Harpy releases a bomb that follows the electronic radar waves back to the site and explodes.

“This [Harpy] is only an offensive weapon, and in the Taiwan Strait, is a particularly threatening device,” says Fisher. “Its only purpose is to take out Taiwan’s electric eyes and ears and to make Taiwan vulnerable to Chinese missiles and bombs.” Fisher also notes that China has exploited information from the Patriot to enable its own missiles, opposite Taiwan, to evade Patriot interception. Our friends on Taiwan, staring across the strait at five hundred Chinese missiles, rely on Patriots for their survival.

Why does Israel sell U.S. weapons technology to a Chinese regime that could one day use it against democratic Taiwan? “When the customer is interested,” writes Israeli scholar Yitzhak Shichor, “it [is] difficult for the Ministry of Defense to abort or prevent an Israeli arms transfer to whatever country for whatever reason.”

The Pentagon has not protested publicly, and the administration and Congress appear too timid to confront the Israelis.

Where does China get the hard currency to pay Israel and Russia? From its huge trade surplus with the United States. When one considers that Beijing covets Russia’s Far East, sends missile technology to Israel’s enemies, menaces America’s friends on Taiwan, and uses profits from its trade with us to buy weapons to target U.S. troops, ships, planes, and even our homeland, all three nations may one day rue their avarice.

In 1995, President Clinton lifted export restrictions on supercomputers to China. Beijing went on a “buying spree,” snatching up forty-six. Believed purpose: Help China develop warheads for a mobile missile to give her the ability to strike the U.S. West Coast. So reported Jeffrey Gerth in aNew York Times story to which the official reaction was yawning indifference.

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