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BreakPoint Commentary - May 26, 1999
Espionage and Treason - The Cox Report
By Charles W. Colson
Lenin once boasted that Western capitalists were so
greedy, they would sell Russia the rope she would
use to hang them with. Well, little has changed in
80 years-only now it is China that threatens us, and
we're selling them products far more lethal than
rope.
The just-released Cox Committee Report has confirmed
that the Chinese have been engaged in a systematic
campaign of espionage for many years, one that has
enabled them to steal America's most sensitive
nuclear secrets. The people responsible include
government officials, who looked the other way, and
aerospace companies like Loral and Hughes, which
knowingly transferred secret American missile
technology to China.
The theft has allowed the Chinese to fast-forward
their missile technology. Just a few years ago, they
had two intercontinental ballistic missiles. Today
they have nearly two dozen and most frightening, they
are tipped by nuclear warheads that are almost exact
copies of the most advanced warhead in the American
arsenal.
And the most outrageous part of the scandal is that
many in power knew about it and did nothing to stop
it.
Naturally, the Clinton Administration does not want a
full-scale investigation, because it will likely open
up the question of campaign money from Beijing, and
whether the administration allowed American businessmen
who are big Democratic contributors to sell out our
national interest. And it will almost certainly open
up the question of whether our policy of so-called
conciliatory engagement toward China has been a wise
one.
The administration, understandably, is putting its
best spin on the scandal but in a way that would be
humorous if not so tragic. Energy Secretary Bill
Richardson told ABC that we need to keep things in
perspective. After all, he said, China has only
about 20 missiles compared to our 6,000.
Well, 20 missiles can kill tens of millions of
Americans. How many people have to be at risk before
its okay to be concerned?
The China scandal underscores what I have been saying
in recent weeks about our foreign policy and the war
in Yugoslavia: There is no consistency. We are
bombing to stop the horrendous policies of Milosovic,
although there is no direct U.S. interest at stake.
China, on the other hand, is violating human rights
on a massive scale, targeting America with nuclear
technology, threatening to destabilize all of Asia--
and we're unwilling to do anything.
Americans must first come to a consensus about what we
are willing to do in the post-Cold War world.
Biblically, the sword is given to government to
preserve order. The fact that we have not used even
mild economic sanctions against China is scandalous
when we knew they were corrupting our leaders and
stealing our nuclear secrets.
Second, we need to recognize that the world is
fallen. Political force is needed to restrain sin.
Biblically, government's first job is to protect its
people, and that means doing what is necessary to
protect national security. If we allow officials to
look the other way for commercial interests or for
their campaign coffers, and jeopardize national
security, we break our sacred trust. Once we didn't
hesitate to call this what it really is: treason.
Americans must have the moral courage to face this
issue squarely and deal with it. And we must use it
as a platform on which we can build a responsible,
biblically sound foreign policy for the future.
Copyright (c) 1999 Prison Fellowship Ministries
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