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March 31, 1997

Clinton Lifts U.S. Port Restrictions
On Red China Ships

By William Heartstone, Staff Journalist

SAN PEDRO, Calif. - The Clinton administration has granted the Red Chinese special privileges in the United States. For example, for the first time since the 1950's, the White House has paved the way for Communist Red Chinese ships to dock near U.S. military installations.

In one such deal in the past year, the U.S. government appears to be financing Beijing's main shipping company operations. For example, the Clinton administration has quietly agreed to permit Communist Red Chinese ships immediate docking privileges on U.S. shores and even at or near U.S. military installations, In short, just about anyplace along the American coastline where the Red Chinese ships may wish to land. It appears that the Clinton administration has now granted the Communist Chinese unrestricted access to American ports in order for the Long Beach Naval Station deal to go through for the Red Chinese.

In exchange for this unprecedented breach of U.S. security a Communist Chinese power, Red China has agreed to possibly allow the Clinton administration's trade mission to have business opportunities on Mainland Communist China.

However, even though Red China first promised U.S. shippers in 1993 that they would be granted access to Mainland Chinese ports,the Communists have refused to make good on that promise. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that U.S. Trade officials say implementation of that arrangement by China has not materialized.

Raising serious doubts throughout the nation is the fact that the primary Chinese beneficiary of Clinton's relaxation of U.S. Docking Rules is the Chinese Red Army owned China Ocean Shipping Co. also known as COSCO which participated in the negotiations.

'The Chinese clearly signaled to us that they wanted one-day access to the ports, and we said we wanted the American companies to do container services in China,' said the U.S. Maritime Administration's Bruce Carlton, a member of the U.S. negotiating team.

Early in 1996, the Chinese Red Army owned COSCO enterprise struck an inside deal with the assistance of the White House to take over the Long Beach Naval Station and Shipyard in a controversial deal now under scrutiny because it never received a security check and the contract was not open to competitive public bidding as required of U.S. owned shipping firms

To make matters worse, earlier this year, the Clinton administration approved the Communist Chinese for a U.S. taxpayer-backed $138 million loan guarantee for the Communist Chinese to build Chinese ships at an Alabama shipyard.

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