Even as the Communist Chinese dictatorship ruthlessly oppresses the people of China while stepping up its aggressive rhetoric, espionage, and military activities aimed beyond its borders, the Obama administration has been training Beijing’s troops in U.S. military tactics, techniques, and procedures. Critics have long opposed the high-level “mil-mil cooperation” between the U.S. Armed Forces and one of the most brutal autocracies on the planet. At least one U.S. lawmaker has been expressing concerns. But the Obama administration, which boasts of its actions and has called for even deeper military ties with Beijing, shows no signs of backing down from the highly controversial and potentially dangerous programs.
In 2013, the
Obama administration shocked the world by inviting Communist Chinese troops to
the United States to train with American forces for the first time in history.
Ostensibly aimed at practicing “disaster management,” the U.S.-Communist China
military exercises raised widespread alarm among national security experts. And
while the Pentagon downplayed the risk and denied in comments to The New
American that any weapons were involved, Chinese officials were boasting of
“weapon demonstration, technique exchange, and cooperative action.” Earlier in
2013, a senior Chinese general, who in 2005 threatened to destroy hundreds of
U.S. cities with nuclear weapons, led a “military exchange program” delegation
to Washington, D.C. from Beijing.
The next year,
again for the first time in history, Obama offered further opportunities for
Chinese forces to gather sensitive intelligence on how the U.S. military works
— this time by inviting Beijing’s Navy to participate in the “RIMPAC war
games.” Hosted off the American coast by the U.S. Pacific Command, RIMPAC is the
largest multinational maritime exercise in the world. And by allowing the
Chinese regime’s ships to participate, Beijing was able to gather important
insight into the U.S. military’s “tactics, techniques and procedures” (TTPs),
according to analysts. Beijing was invited again this year, even as it steps up
its aggressive actions against U.S. Navy ships in international waters.
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Since Obama took office, U.S. forces have been
training Chinese troops and sailors in “counter-piracy operations” in the
Indian Ocean, too. The Obama administration also waived the ban on Chinese parts
in U.S. weapons systems, with potentially catastrophic implications for
national security. And in February of this year, the administration
invited dozens of Chinese naval officers to tour the U.S. Naval Academy, the
U.S. Surface Warfare Officers School, and the U.S. Naval War College. The
dictatorship’s officers also “took part in seminars with trainees at the
Surface Warfare Officers School,” the Chinese Navy headquarters boasted to the
regime’s propaganda outlets.
In recent years, the administration has gone even
further in terms of linking up the U.S. military to Beijing’s “People’s
Liberation Army.” “The military-to-military ties between the United States and
China have grown and strengthened in recent years and it is an area of
cooperation that the United States values,” said Obama National Security
Advisor Susan Rice last year while in Beijing meeting with top Communist Chinese
officials, including dictator Xi Jinping. “President Obama firmly believes that
the U.S.-China relationship is one of the most consequential bilateral
relationships in the world and that there is virtually no problem of global
significance that can be better resolved when the United States and China are
working together at the same table.”
The deepening bonds between U.S. and Chinese forces
under the Obama administration, justified by the administration and the
establishment as an effort to prevent “misunderstandings,” has now attracted
some attention even from establishment media organs. In a Reuters column last week about how the United States is
training China’s military even while inching toward conflict, columnist William
Johnson noted that, despite tensions, “the two nations’ militaries train
together at a very high level.” He noted that even though the two governments
were coming closer to “armed confrontation,” the Obama administration was
simultaneously “training Chinese forces in the American way of war.” The two
militaries are also developing “increased interoperability,” Johnson observed.
Beijing is taking full advantage of the opportunities
to learn about the U.S. military and how it operates, too. Various
“cooperative” and “international” military efforts with U.S. forces are being
used by China to, for example, “explore the anti-submarine warfare tactics of
the U.S. forces stationed on Diego Garcia Island, south of India, as well as
those of U.S. and allied forces in the Gulf of Aden,” according to Johnson.
Meanwhile, with Beijing being allowed to use the European Union’s MERCURY
communications network, China is able “to understand exactly how NATO allies
coordinate efforts in every stage of sea battle, from planning to execution to
assessment,” Johnson explained. Incredibly, the columnist goes on to argue for
increased military cooperation.
Apparently, some military officials also support the
administration’s ongoing support for the Chinese regime’s armed forces. “The
PLA(N) [People’s Liberation Army-Navy] and PLAAF [People’s Liberation Army-Air
Force] are now global brands and our desire is for them to increasingly
contribute to security and stability operations,” wrote Vice Admiral Robert
Thomas in a column published by Defense One. “What’s next? Our goal is clear:
we want to work with the PLA(N) and PLAAF to ensure their efforts contribute to
regional stability and that they act as a proponent of the rule of law in the
international system. To this end, increased cooperation between the U.S. 7th
Fleet and the PLA(N) will benefit all nations in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.”
But more than a few high-profile voices have said the
cooperation ought to end — and that it is putting U.S. national security in
danger. In an analysis published by the Center for Security Policy, for
example, U.S. Admiral James "Ace" Lyons (Ret.) started off by blasting
the invitation extended to Communist China to participate in RIMPAC. That
massive exercise “is for allies and friends, not nations planning to eventually
wage war on the United States,” he said, quoting analyst Robert Sutter’s 2005
assertion that “China is the only large power in the world preparing to shoot
Americans.” That assessment remains true today, Admiral Lyons noted: “Beijing
is configuring its forces — especially its navy — to fight ours.”
“As Beijing’s behavior has become more troubling, the
Pentagon has clung to the hope that military-to-military relations will somehow
relieve tensions with the Chinese,” Lyons continued, rightly or wrongly
assuming that the Obama administration’s training of Chinese forces is at least
well-intentioned, if naïve. “Yet as Ronald Reagan taught us, the nature of
regimes matter. We are now helping an incurably aggressive state develop its
military — to our peril. There is something very wrong at the core of the Obama
administration’s and the Pentagon’s China policies.” Of course, numerous other
respected analysts and Western officials have offered similar warnings about
Beijing’s intentions.
The Chinese regime’s increasingly aggressive
confrontations with U.S. ships and aircraft in international waters and
airspace have raised alarm, too. Meanwhile, Beijing’s generals have, even in
recent years, threatened to annihilate
hundreds of U.S. cities in a nuclear holocaust if the U.S.
government were to stick by its treaty obligations and defend the free Republic
of China (Taiwan) from the communist regime ruling the mainland. Obama
responded by inviting the communist general to the United States on an official
exchange mission. The regime has also been aggressively spying on the
United States, most recently found culpable in a massive hacking attack.
Plus, the fact that the Communist Chinese dictatorship has murdered more human beings than
any other in history should, in and of itself, be cause for serious
concern.
In Congress, some lawmakers have started questioning the
Obama administration’s “mil-mil” actions, too. Late last year, Rep. Randy
Forbes (R. Va.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s Seapower and
Projection Forces Subcommittee, sent a letter to Obama’s defense chiefs asking
for a “review” of the cooperation. “I believe that the Department currently
lacks the thorough guidance and oversight mechanisms necessary to maintain a
consistent mil-mil policy that best serves U.S. national security objectives
over the ‘long-haul’ of the emerging U.S.-China peacetime competition,” the
congressman wrote, citing “multiple examples” of senior U.S. officials
“pursuing multiple, divergent mil-mil engagement objectives.” But even Forbes’
publicly expressed doubts hardly hit on the main problems.
Of course, Obama has not been alone in handing
sensitive insight into the U.S. military to Beijing on a silver platter. Former
U.S. President Bill Clinton, for example, helped the hostile communist
government access some of the most sensitive American military technology, even
while covering up various crimes for the regime and its agents, as documented
in the February 15, 1999 “Chinagate: Treason in the White House” issue of The New American.
“President Clinton promised to restrain those who ordered the Tiananmen Square
massacre, but he has now allowed these men whose hands are stained with the
blood of martyrs of freedom into the highest reaches of our military defenses,
and made available to them significant portions of our advanced military
technology,” wrote former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Thomas Moorer.
The Obama administration’s seemingly bizarre decision
to cooperate so closely with the brutal Chinese regime is in line with advice
offered by billionaire globalist financier George Soros. In recent months, the
Rothschild dynasty protégée has become increasingly vocal in demanding an even broader “strategic
partnership” with the dictatorship, allegedly to avoid another
world war. Soros has also called regularly for Beijing to
“own” what he touts as the “New World Order.” The broader
globalist establishment, meanwhile, continues to build up the ruthless
autocracy, even as Chinese Communists increasingly seize control of
more and more of the architecture of “global governance.”
For the sake of U.S. national security and liberty,
the U.S. government should end any and all programs that could benefit the
brutal autocracy or its armed forces in any way — particularly in the event of
conflict with the United States. The Obama administration, which has also invited Russian terror troops
to U.S. soil for training with U.S. forces for the first time in history,
clearly has no intention of reining in the potentially catastrophic assistance
to hostile foreign regimes. But Congress, which controls the purse strings, can
and should take action to protect America.
Alex Newman, a foreign correspondent for The
New American, is normally
based in Europe. Follow him on Twitter @ALEXNEWMAN_JOU. He can be
reached at anewman@thenewamerican.com .
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