The Clinton-China Connection
Charles R. Smith
Thursday, Aug. 9, 2007
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.
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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Clinton White House and Warships Sold to China
Charles R. Smith
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
There is one photograph that all Hillary Clinton supporters should see.
The photo was taken in 1995 showing Bill and Hillary standing next to the DNC symbol with Ng Lapseng.
Ng Lapseng often visited the Clinton White House. Ng, or "Mr. Wu" to his friends, is the owner of the Macao-based Fortuna Hotel, a resort and casino.
However, the Fortuna hotel is more than just a resort and casino.
According to the Fortuna advertisements, children under 12 can stay free at the hotel. In addition, according to the Fortuna brochure, for a fee, beautiful young hostesses from various countries can also entertain businessmen. To put it more bluntly, Ng sells women for sex.
Of course, with the recent endorsement of the National Organization of Women (NOW), Hillary has yet to explain how hanging out with a businessman who makes profits off of prostitution is empowering her female voters.
Still, the Clinton relationship with Ng goes far deeper than selling sexual favors on the streets of Macao. First, there was the money that flowed from Ng's pockets and that somehow fell into the hands of the Clintons.
Ng Lapseng came into the country on June 20, 1994, and he brought with him a suitcase with $175,000 in cash. Two days later, he met at the White House with Mark Middleton, one of Clinton's top aides.
Two days after the last meeting, Ng went to a DNC dinner with Bill and Hillary. Ng was seated at the No. 1 table. Somehow, Ng managed to give the Clintons the $175,000 in cash.
On July 31, 1994, Ng returned to the United States, this time with $42,000 in his pocket. Two days later he again travels to the White House with Mark Middleton and went to the DNC birthday party for President Clinton. The $42,000 went to President Clinton.
On Oct. 19, 1994, Ng again arrived on U.S. shores with $25,000 in a suitcase. The next day he met with Mark Middleton again at the White House.
On Feb. 15, 1995, Ng brought $12,000 in cash into the country. The next day, he met with Mark Middleton at the White House, and he met with the president upstairs at the president's residence.
On Feb. 18, 1996, Ng had $19,000 when he entered the U.S. The next day, he went to the president's Asian dinner at the Hay Adams Hotel.
Of course, Ng was not alone during these trips to the White House. In fact, Ng's good friend and a close friend of the President Clinton, Charlie Trie, received $1.4 million in wire transfers from Ng. In fact, Ng's wire transfers to Charlie turned into Trie's main source of income.
Ng Lapseng visited the White House 12 times during the time he was wiring hundreds of thousands of dollars to Trie as well as bringing all pocket cash in. The funds enabled Trie, his wife, and two of Trie's sham corporations, Daihatsu International Trading and San Kin Yip International Trading, to contribute $215,000 to the DNC.
Clinton appointed Trie to the Commission on U.S. Pacific Trade and Investment Policy in April of 1996.
Still, the money flowing from Ng to the Clintons is a side issue.
The real trouble begins when you examine Ng Lapseng and his business ventures other than prostitution.
Ng's hotel, the Fortuna, is also a place where other business ventures are housed. According to the 123 national security violations filed against Hughes Satellite Corporation, Hughes was involved in some questionable events with a Fortuna-based company.
The Sino-Canada Telecommunications and Investment Management Company were incorporated in Macao, "having its principal place of business at the Hotel Fortuna."
According to the State Department charges, the Sino-Canada Telecommunications Company also had contracted with Hughes for a large part of the APMT satellite contract then destined for China in 1995. In fact, Sino-Canada paid Hughes $5 million up front that was not reported to the State Department.
"Sino-Canada's managing director, Suen Yan Kwong, was the founder of Chung Kiu Telecommunication, which had invested in cellular telecommunications for use under special network by China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) in military districts along the coastal provinces," noted the December 2002 State Department charge letter.
It is amazing that a company based inside a Macao hotel owned by Ng Lapseng would contract with a U.S.-based satellite company when its owner was then also in business supplying communications to the Chinese army. Even more amazing is the Clinton's silence on Ng Lapseng and the money that somehow slipped out of his pockets into DNC coffers at the same time.
Alas, there is still more on Ng Lapseng. It seems that he also played a key role in the Chinese navy purchase of an ex-Russian aircraft carrier, the Varyag.
In 1998 the engineless, weaponless Ukrainian aircraft carrier Varyag was sold at auction for $20 million. The winning bidder was a Macau-registered firm called Chong Lot. The purchasers pledged it would be used for peaceful purposes. The carrier was to be sent to Macao and would be used for a floating casino.
In March 2002, following a three-year delay by Turkish authorities who denied the carrier passage through the Bosporus Strait, the Varyag finally arrived in Dalian Shiyard in northern China for refurbishment. Varyag has been in Dalian Shipyard since 2002 and it soon became clear that the ship would not become a casino.
Instead the ship was handed to the PLA navy for restoration. The ship is now being converted into a fully operational aircraft carrier. This was confirmed when the ship emerged from a Dalian Shipyard dry dock painted in PLA navy gray in 2005.
After the ship was sold, it was discovered that Chong Lot was a front company. The Macau head office address listed with the commercial registration bureau turned out not to exist. Chin Luck, its parent company based in Hong Kong, is reportedly a front for the Chinese military.
The Portuguese-language newspaper Ponto Final revealed later that Chong Lot executives were represented in talks with Macau's government by Ng Lapseng, the owner of Fortuna Hotel.
To this day, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton refuse to discuss Ng Lapseng, and his business ventures selling women and warships. They refuse to discuss the photographic evidence of Ng's close working relationship with them during the White House years. They refuse to discuss the money that flowed out of his pockets and into the coffers of the DNC.
The story of Ng Lapseng and the Clintons should serve as a warning of things to come for future voters. The story should be headline news and the source of tough questions from a so-called mainstream media.
Instead, Ng's story will sail away from Dalian shipyard and into the Pacific to face the U.S. Navy.
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LIPPOBANK
MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
(Formerly BANK OF TRADE)
January 7, 1993
Mr. Ronald H. Brown
Chairman
Democratic National Committee
430 South Capitol Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20203
Daer Ron,
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.
I was trying to reach you. But there were too many people there
and I was not successful to do it.
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.
Please if possible give me (f you are busy, please ask Bill
Morton or your other assistant) a call at my office at (213)
625-1888 x668 or at my home at (818) 244-5089 so that I can
quickly finalize this matter.
Thanking you in advance for taking a little moment on this
matter. I know you extremely busy. But I think this matter is
also important as well.
Again, congratulations and looking forward to hearing from you
soon.
Sincerely yours,
John Huang
Vice Chairman
JH/dt
711 W. COLLEGE STREET - LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 - PHONE (213)
625-1888 - TELEX 271362 LPBLA UR - FAX (213) 680-9725
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