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The Clinton-China Connection Charles R. Smith I cannot help but laugh at Hillary Clinton. The leading democrat candidate for President declared herself a righteous critic of China during a recent debate. Hillary warned the United States must deal with China's "currency manipulation" at the forum hosted by the AFL-CIO trade unions federation. She also lashed out at China for sending dangerous toys to the U.S., something which I noted her left-wing audience would like. "I don't want to eat bad food from China or have my children having toys that are going to get them sick," said Clinton. Oh, that's so nice and tough but Hillary — we know you have taken money from the Chinese. Not just once but many times. For example, in February 1995 Johnny Chung asked DNC Chairman Don Fowler to help him get a photo op of Bill Clinton with a few friends from China.
Fowler declined to help Chung because the list of friends included Zheng Hongye, a top executive of the Chinese navy-owned shipping company COSCO. In response, Chung handed a $50,000 check to Maggie Williams, Hillary Clinton's chief of staff. On March 11, 1995, Chung and Zheng attended Clinton's weekly radio address, which was later followed by a photo session. Chung later noted that the money came directly from the hands of Gen. Ji, then head of the PLA military intelligence department. Ji handed the money to Chung with the famous words," We like your president (Clinton). We want him re-elected." Still, Mrs. Clinton has a few of her own pictures to live down, including one with convicted "Chinagate" figure Moctar Riady. Yet, the many pictures of Hillary with the Riady family never made it into her "tell-all" book because that family photo series ties her at the hips with Beijing. The Riady family is a direct link to the Chinese army. According to a U.S. Senate report, Moctar and his billion dollar company the Lippo Group, was directly in business with the Chinese military intelligence. Of course, if you ask Hillary, she has never heard of the Riady family. Then again, the relationship between the Clintons and the Riadys spans all the way back to Arkansas when Moctar bought out the Little Rock Worthen Bank.
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James Riady pled guilty to passing illegal money through Hillary and Bill in the form of illegal donations. Moctar's personal gardener once handed Bill Clinton a $450,000 check with the words "James Riady sent me."
Efforts to question the gardener were unsuccessful since he and his wife skipped America right after the donation.
The question of where or how a gardener could get $450,000 was answered later. It seems that the Riady family gave him $500,000 but only $450,000 managed to fall out of his pocket and into Clinton hands. Then there is the problem of ex-Lippo employee John Huang. Huang was also a close friend of the Clintons. Curiously, John managed to leave his six figure job as a VP at the Lippo Group, take a pay cut, and obtain top secret clearance at the U.S. Commerce Department under Ron Brown. I know that John could not have gotten this job based on his skill level because I have a letter written by Huang to Ron Brown prior to his government employment. "Daer Ron", starts Huang. No kidding here - he spelled "dear" as "daer."
"Congratulations for great performance during yesterday Senate hearing. I was watching it in the Senate Russell Building and came away with the strong feeling that you will do an outstanding job as Secretary of the Department of Commerce in the coming years," noted Huang.
"I was trying to reach you. But there were too many people there and I was not successful to do it," struggled Huang. "What I really want to do is to identify a convenient time in the coming week to arrange a meeting between you and Dr. Mochtar Riady, our Group Chairman. Dr. Riady will be coming to the States. I firmly believe such a meeting will be quite beneficial and valuable given Dr. Riady's many years experience in the business arena. In fact, he is so good that he has been named as advisor to two of largest Japanese Banks (Tokai Bank and Daiwa Bank). Dealing with Japan and other Asian matters will be all of our important agenda." Clearly, English was not John's forte but he was accepted for work at Clinton's Commerce Department. While at the "Commerce" Department, Huang obtained a wide variety of civilian and commercial data, including details on Patriot missile sales, F-15 and F-16 fighter jet sales, and bribes paid to the Indonesian dictator Suharto. Of course, no one has even explained to me why the Commerce Department was involved in military equipment and kick-backs to dictators. Then again, maybe I an ignorant of the ways one can classify a Patriot missile as civilian. Huang later pled guilty to passing Chinese money into the coffers of the DNC for the Clintons. In fact, Huang cited his Fifth Amendment rights over 2,000 times when asked if he was an agent of the Chinese military.
No one even answered the questions about how John got his job at Commerce, except for the one fact that slipped out, the pressure to hire Huang came from Mrs. Clinton's office. Don't ask Hillary about this. She won't remember. However, the Chinese army will remember whenever they need a favor.
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