What’s wrong with this picture?
Posted on WND.com-By Aaron Klein-On July 23, 2011:
“President Obama’s China adviser, Evan Medeiros, has a long history of downplaying the threat to U.S. interests posed by Beijing’s rapid military and economic growth, once even penning a paper that argued China should embrace a “great power mentality.”
Medeiros was appointed as China director of the White House National Security Council in 2009.
He was a foreign policy adviser to Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign and even donated $3,800 to the candidate, his only campaign contribution on record since 2000.
Medeiros has been an external researcher at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, where he has given several recent lectures.
He was formerly a senior research analyst at the Arms Control Association in Washington, D.C. He was also a project associate with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and joined the RAND Corporation as a political scientist in 2002.
Prior to that, Medeiros was a senior research associate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute.
In his most recent “Inside the Ring” column in the Washington Times, Bill Gertz cited congressional Republicans as identifying Medeiros as a key player involved in the Obama administration’s policy of refusing to sell needed arms toTaiwan.
The same report blamed Medeiros for delaying the release of a second Pentagon report to Congress on the shifting air power balance in the Taiwan Strait.
The Times also cited Republican staff aides and a defense official as stating they believe Medeiros is behind efforts to block the release to Congress of the Pentagon’s annual report on Chinese military power, completed months ago and due to Capitol Hill on March 1.
The report on China’s military was also delayed last year. When it was eventually released, the report was watered down with a minimized title. Previously called the “Annual Report to Congress: Military Power of the People’s Republic of China,” the report was renamed “Annual Report on Security Developments Involving China.”
Medeiros, meanwhile, was fingered by Gertz’s sources as a key official in preventing the U.S. sale of 66 advanced F-16 jets to Taiwan and for delaying the sale of equipment to upgrade Taiwan’s existing F-16s. Both military moves were expected to anger China.
A review of Medeiros’s articles and statements to the news media finds a regular trend of minimizing China’s threat to the U.S.
In 2009, just before his appointment to the NSC, Medeiros stated China was not seeking to “confront the United States or expel it from the region.”
He argued China was not aiming to replace America as a superpower.
In 2007, Medeiros, speaking as an expert at the RAND Corporation, argued Beijing’s military buildup is limited to Asia and it has not sought to project power globally.
“Cumulatively, this is a substantial amount of money devoted toward military modernization. And it’s clearly a reflection of the Chinese government’s priorities and the fact that they seek to build a modern military with regional power projection capabilities,” Medeiros said.
In 2005, Medeiros said of China’s People’s Liberation Army: “Do the old shibboleths still apply – that the Chinese defense industry is backward, poor and low-quality?”
“No,” he continued. “It seems China has turned the corner. … For the first time in 20 years, the PLA has adopted reforms that make sense. They adopted, and implemented, and are really learning quickly.”
Medeiros that year was lead author of a 300-page RAND study, “New Directions for China’s Defense Industry.”
In 2002, he minimized China’s missile project, telling The Economist that the Chinese “don’t really see missiles as weapons of mass destruction while most American policymakers equate the two.”
In an article in the November-December 2003 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, Medeiros, with analyst M. Taylor Fravel, presented the views of experts on Chinese foreign policy as stating China should overcome its long-held “victim mentality” and adopt a “great power mentality” instead.
Speaking to Knight Ridder in 2001, Medeiros stated, “The Chinese defense industrial base is very outdated and dilapidated, especially in these areas where warfare is headed.
“They don’t have the high technology to compete at all,” he said.
He stated China’s ships and planes, at least those not acquired from Russia, are outfitted with technology equal to what American forces had in the late 1960s or early 1970s.
“So if they ever got in a battle with the United States, we could destroy their forces before they ever saw us,” Medeiros added.
Still, Medeiros has incorporated criticism of China into his work. His 2005 RAND study, for example, said China “needs to do more to enforce its own controls.”
Stated the study: “China has erected a structure that has a strong legal basis to control exports of goods that can be used for making weapons of mass destruction, but it hasn’t devoted the necessary financial or political resources to make these controls effective.
“This is a persistent and glaring weakness,” the study said.
- With research by Brenda J. Elliott.”
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http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=324577
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I. S. Korea: North Can Deliver Nuke Warhead Via Rocket!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Reuters-On June 13, 2011:
II. The Administration Must Not Bend to Russian Missile Defense Demands-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-On May 21, 2011:
III. Top 10 Obama Foreign Policy Flubs-Posted on Human Events-By Human Events-On May 21, 2011:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=43631
IV. CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Praises Obama’s Mideast Foreign Policy ‘Restraint’!-Posted on The Media Research Center-By Matt Hadro-On July 6, 2011:
http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2011/20110706063708.aspx
Note: The following websites and report reveal that George Soros’ Open Society Institute (OSI) funds: (a) organizations that advocate America’s unilateral disarmament and/or a steep reduction in its military spending; (b) organizations that favor global government, which would bring American foreign policy under the control of the United Nations or other international bodies; and, (c) the Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG), which is a liberal internationalist coalition of U.S. donors who believe the best way to prevent wars, constrain rogue nations, and prevent the spread of nuclear weapons is to let international laws and organizations set the terms of world peace. The umbrella group, whose listed supporters claim to have assets exceeding $25 billion, aims to entangle the U.S. government in a process of international negotiation to create a new global legal regime. It would likely limit U.S. sovereignty and replace a strong national defense with endless rounds of international rulemaking and consensus-building-You Decide:
(a) Organizations that advocate America’s unilateral disarmament and/or a steep reduction in its military spending:
- The American Friends Service Committee, which views America as the world's chief source of international strife, has long had a friendly relationship with the Communist Party USA. Lamenting that “the United States spends 59% of the discretionary federal budget on military-related expenses,” the Committee seeks to “realign national spending priorities and to increase the portion of the budget that is spent on housing, quality education for all, medical care, and fair wages.” In 2000, George Soros himself was a signatory to a letter titled “Appeal for Responsible Security” that appeared in The New York Times. The letter called upon the U.S. government “to commit itself unequivocally to negotiate the worldwide reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons,” and to participate in “the global de-alerting of nuclear weapons and deep reduction of nuclear stockpiles.”
(b) Organizations that favor global government, which would bring American foreign policy under the control of the United Nations or other international bodies:
- According to George Soros, “We need some global system of political decision-making. In short, we need a global society to support our global economy.” Consistent with this perspective, the Open Society Institute in 2008 gave $150,000 to the United Nations Foundation, which “works to broaden support for the UN through advocacy and public outreach.” Moreover, OSI is considered a “major” funder of the Coalition for an International Criminal Court, which aims to subordinate American criminal-justice procedures in certain cases to an international prosecutor who could initiate capricious or politically motivated prosecutions of U.S. officials and military officers.
Source:
Guide to The George Soros Network-Posted on DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=589
(c) Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG)!-Posted on DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6519
The New Internationalism: Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG)!-Posted on Capital Research Center-By John J. Tierney-On August 2009:
http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1249061645.pdf
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Nuclear Summit Part of Obama Administration’s ‘Fantasy Foreign Policy’
Will The New START Undermine Our Nuclear Security?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/will-the-new-start-undermine-our-nuclear-security/
National Security Shouldn’t Be For Sale!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/national-security-shouldn’t-be-for-sale/
Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?
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“Food For Thought”
God Bless the U.S.A.!
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Jake
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